Plus all these fancy technologies can be bested easily by a guy with a camera. 

On Monday, July 9, 2012, William Muriithi wrote:
> This would only work if you were personally selling directly to your end
> users, asking them to identify themselves first, and barring them from
> selling on to others. Or you would require your distribution chain to do
> this for you. Otherwise the guy four links down the chain might be the big
> "pirate" distributor.
Ya, this is the problem with water marks.  Its not scalable and only
works for wholesalers and large customers, where investing on
watermark will still be financially sensible. Anything that go to end
users in masses, you will have to trust them to be ethical and be open
to some copying being part of doing the business.

I think this can only be done by operating system, not an after market
application. There was time Microsoft seem like they would have
managed to implement such a DRM, but Apple became dominant and they
refused to go along with them.  Since such DRM can only work if
implemented across all the platforms, I doubt it will ever be
possible.

Regards,

William
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: <http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/private/skunkworks/attachments/20120706/507fd50f/attachment-0001.htm>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 22:41:50 +0300
> From: amanya <whynnot@gmail.com>
> To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Write protecting CD's Copyright
> Message-ID:
>         <CAA2Ze450vGbwrJiDH6zEnYAqqP5k9Ega4MswoYbjWaT+WpH-6A@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
>
> for authorized duplication, i'd walk down river road so to speak, there are
> a couple of music production houses there. if need be talk to steenie
> 0722477344, he knows his way around there.
>
> to prevent unauthorized duplication, am not aware of that having been done
> successfully.
> On Jul 6, 2012 9:04 PM, "Okechukwu" <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Am actually working on a solution (not really a solution but some leverage
>> to deal with pirates) where a video is encoded with an invisible watermark
>> which is unique for every copy made on DVD/CD. If any copy appears on the
>> black market, the software can read the watermark and compare it with the
>> database and know the distributor (who legally acquired it and decided to
>> duplicate). This then is used as evidence to sue the distributor and deal
>> with the root cause of piracy - which is never the guy the innocently buys
>> a pirated copy.
>>
>> ./Ok3ch
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Jul 6, 2012, at 16:05, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> @john if its something sellable like music, talk to me too, I have a
>> platform for distribution.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:58 PM, John Karanja <mauxdatabase@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> mmmmh its a tricky one cause i am realising its different with text,
>>> sound and video
>>>
>>> Ok where can I burn like 10,000 CD's?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help
>>>
>>> John.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I thought copying is defined as reading from source A and writing to
>>>> source B. So you need to find a way to prevent the "reading" in the first
>>>> place:-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:40 PM, John Karanja <mauxdatabase@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Its still possible to copy from that. I would also like to prevent
>>>>> copying and make many copies.
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Joseph Maina <mainasoft00@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> the write protect tab..
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:29 PM, John Karanja <mauxdatabase@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Skunks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How can I make a CD read only i.e. Impossible to copy from?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Are there any such services available in town as I would like to do
>>>>>>> it en masse.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hit me up off list, your assistance will be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheerz,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> John
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>> Skunkworks mailing list
>>>>>>> Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
>>>>>>> ------------
>>>>>>> List info, subscribe/unsubscribe
>>>>>>> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks
>>>>>>> ------------
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Skunkworks Rules
>>>>>>> >> *?The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of
>> great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of
>> corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of
>> protecting corporate power against democracy?*
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Skunkworks mailing list
>> Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
>> ------------
>> List info, subscribe/unsubscribe
>> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks
>> ------------
>>
>> Skunkworks Rules
>> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94
>> ------------
>> Other services @ http://my.co.ke
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Skunkworks mailing list
>> Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
>> ------------
>> List info, subscribe/unsubscribe
>> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks
>> ------------
>>
>> Skunkworks Rules
>> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94
>> ------------
>> Other services @ http://my.co.ke
>>
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: <http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/private/skunkworks/attachments/20120706/6d5d1c11/attachment-0001.htm>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 22:58:28 +0300
> From: James Nzomo <kazikubwa@gmail.com>
> To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] [SKUNKWORKS] Kenya Police twitter account
>         owner   unmasked
> Message-ID:
>         <CAChuKudTkGgLnehESUHLy84G_hxBhqCfU0XSUUf8+Fdck+1weA@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> You mean our gallant police force/internal security forces, supposedly on
> the lookout for suspicious cyber space activity in these terror prone
> times, failed to notice that the account wasn't run by one of their own?
>
> Kuna stori mahali!
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> *The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, *
> *not in the code it's made of. **
> *
> _______________________________________________
> *
>
> *
>
>
>
> 2012/7/5 Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>
>
>> Immoral, yes, because it is purposely misleading. That one, I entirely
>> agree.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Philip Musyoki <pmusyoki@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> @Wash,
>>>
>>> They could be no law but that I think is some form of mis-representation.
>>> People genuinely believe they are tweeting to, or receiving tweets,
>>> re-tweeting or just are subscribed to the real Kenya Police. I am sure it
>>> raises some issues, and it also has a security dimension to it; like
>>> disseminating security details and imminent attacks or lack of them.
>>>
>>> Even if it is not illegal, it feels 'immoral' to me.
>>>
>>> And I am sure Twitter has something about this in their long terms and
>>> conditions.
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Skunkworks mailing list
>>> Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
>>> ------------
>>> List info, subscribe/unsubscribe
>>> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks
>>> ------------
>>>
>>> Skunkworks Rules
>>> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94
>>> ------------
>>> Other services @ http://my.co.ke
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
>> Nairobi,KE
>> +254733744121/+254722743223
>> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
>> I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Skunkworks mailing list
>> Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
>> ------------
>> List info, subscribe/unsubscribe
>> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks
>> ------------
>>
>> Skunkworks Rules
>> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94
>> ------------
>> Other services @ http://my.co.ke
>>
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: <http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/private/skunkworks/attachments/20120706/3f1bd06d/attachment.htm>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> Skunkworks mailing list
> Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks
> ------------
> Skunkworks Server donations spreadsheet
> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AopdHkqSqKL-dHlQVTMxU1VBdU1BSWJxdy1fbjAwOUE&hl=en
> ------------
> Skunkworks Rules
> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94
> ------------
> Other services @ http://my.co.ke
>
> End of Skunkworks Digest, Vol 29, Issue 76
> ******************************************
_______________________________________________
Skunkworks mailing list
Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
------------
List info, subscribe/unsubscribe
http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks
------------

Skunkworks Rules
http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94
------------
Other services @ http://my.co.ke