[66999] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Fri Jan 30 14:25:56 2004
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:20:00 -0800
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: JC Dill <nanog@vo.cnchost.com>
In-Reply-To: <005a01c3e6f3$fe530180$02005a0a@2mbit.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 09:43 PM 1/29/2004, "Brian Bruns" <bruns@2mbit.com> wrote:
>Properly implemented watermarking won't be affected by the recompression. It
>may not be as clear to the program as it would be if it was in its old format,
>but its still legible.
That's *visible* watermarking, not invisible *digital* watermarking which
is hidden in the image file and marks the image as the property of the
copyright owner. If AOL's recompression technique is stripping out the
digital watermark (can anyone here verify this?), then:
AOL is copying and redistributing the image in a new format *without the
permission of the copyright holder* in a way that A) makes AOL money and B)
removes protections that the copyright holder had placed on the image to
help keep third parties from reproducing the image without permission.
and in doing so:
IMHO they are infringing on the copyright of those who have placed the
digital watermark in the image.
jc
