Hey folks,
maybe this is a bit off-topic, but I'm pretty sure that some people here are interested into this.
Recently, the DRM industry introduced a technology called "Forensic Watermarking". I don't want to say that it's a new technology, but it now gets more and more available to a wider range of people/companies.
First, what is Forensic Watermarking?
--> Forensic Watermarking is a technology that in most cases enables content distributors or creators to insert a payload into the video information itself, this payload can either be visible or invisible and is robust against re-encoding of the content. The problem here is that the payload gets inserted upon content delivery and is individually transcoded (on the fly) for a specific user content-delivery output request on server-side. Meaning, there is no way around, that information about your Identity is part of the content you grabbed from a "source".
Why do I actually care?
Well it's not my intention to make content creators impoverished because people are redistributing their content, but I also don't like to get monitored in any possible way by the industry, it simply sucks and to me this is also one of many reasons why a tool like anystream exists.
The actual Question:
So my question now is, can I remove or alter cryptographic information embedded in the image of a video? Can I maybe add new information to the video to distort the original added payload of the distributor?! In the end, I would at least expect that such an attack might work.
Final thoughts:
In the end, I don't really understand the concept of the industry here. I could simply get a Netflix account either by using a Gift card or a shared account, there are many sites to get a shared account so why have something like a watermark to even more trace potential offenders of "the system" xD it's just such a nonsense story ...
maybe this is a bit off-topic, but I'm pretty sure that some people here are interested into this.
Recently, the DRM industry introduced a technology called "Forensic Watermarking". I don't want to say that it's a new technology, but it now gets more and more available to a wider range of people/companies.
First, what is Forensic Watermarking?
--> Forensic Watermarking is a technology that in most cases enables content distributors or creators to insert a payload into the video information itself, this payload can either be visible or invisible and is robust against re-encoding of the content. The problem here is that the payload gets inserted upon content delivery and is individually transcoded (on the fly) for a specific user content-delivery output request on server-side. Meaning, there is no way around, that information about your Identity is part of the content you grabbed from a "source".
Why do I actually care?
Well it's not my intention to make content creators impoverished because people are redistributing their content, but I also don't like to get monitored in any possible way by the industry, it simply sucks and to me this is also one of many reasons why a tool like anystream exists.
The actual Question:
So my question now is, can I remove or alter cryptographic information embedded in the image of a video? Can I maybe add new information to the video to distort the original added payload of the distributor?! In the end, I would at least expect that such an attack might work.
Final thoughts:
In the end, I don't really understand the concept of the industry here. I could simply get a Netflix account either by using a Gift card or a shared account, there are many sites to get a shared account so why have something like a watermark to even more trace potential offenders of "the system" xD it's just such a nonsense story ...
