[nycbug-talk] Protecting a CD

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jun 25, 2004, at 12:39 PM, marco at metm.org wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:27:02PM -0400, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> Another is since TMTOWTDI with regard to HTML/XML, you can really get
>> away with a lot.  Meaningless tags, whitespace, &codes;, etc.
>>
> When the watermarking is actually in the content, as in the example I
> provided, it is impossible to strip with a pdf2html type application.
> Delivery in any format would require human work to remove the 
> misspelled
> 'watermarks', and if you are publishing in multiple formats, again the
> same watermarks remain.
>
> I was always intrigued by this example which is why I mentioned it.

It is definitely a particularly robust watermarking scheme for text in 
that it's independent of the media, but it noticeably degrades the 
content.

-bob
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