We live in a new age that allows through digital means the opportunity to “cut and paste” enabling anyone the chance to take someone else’s content and making it ones own. While security is necessary, someone will surely find a way to hack around it.  No system is foolproof so at the end of the day, the only “cure” is to let your conscience be your guide...oh and financial penalties if you are caught.

We live in a new age that allows through digital means the opportunity to “cut and paste” enabling anyone the chance to take someone else’s content and making it ones own. While security is necessary, someone will surely find a way to hack around it.  No system is foolproof so at the end of the day, the only “cure” is to let your conscience be your guide...oh and financial penalties if you are caught. 

Having better filtering systems is a step in the right direction, but still does not address some of the fundamental problems with YouTube and other sites that fundamentally steal, or enable the stealing, of content of many working artists without considering their rights for either control or compensation of their photography, music or otherwise.  Many people forget that content is not free, and much of it is created not by large corporations but freelance working artists.  Where are they in this equation?

Audible Magic’s technology is licensed from a 3rd party - they’re just a reseller. Fundamentally, their technology model will fail.

Google, of course, is all things to everyone, but nothing to no one, but themselves.

Janwar - do you know who Audible Magic’s technology is licensed from? The 3rd party?

I thougt it was akamai?