Depends entirely on how you do it. If you use some solid stegnographic
techniques, it can be a LOT harder to filter such things out.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:56 AM, <madhentairabbit_at_triluminary.net> wrote:
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> >You know with a Hex editor it is pretty easy to encode information
> >into a Jpeg. Maybe someone here could write a little app that Jim
> >could use to encode the buyer's name onto each of the pictures in
> >the collection, and then call winrar to create their own
> >personalized copy. (I find its command line functions useful)
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> Unfortunately, all it would take to undo that is to open the file in a
> graphics editor and then re-save a new copy of it elsewhere. Sure, it's a
> tedious, repetitive process for a large number of files -- but a simple
> batch-processing script to automate the process could be knocked together
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> >Then if someone does a buy-n-download, they could be notified that
> >there would be a $300 surcharge if *their* copy of any/all of the
> >pictures appeared online
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> Heh -- good luck *collecting* it, though. Anyone who would ignore the
> warnings not to do the buy-and-upload bit will probably also ignore any
> demands to pay the $300 penalty... Jim would probably have to take them to
> small-claims court to get a judgement against them, and even *then* that's
> no guarantee he'd ever get the money out of them.
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Received on Wed Apr 30 2008 - 09:14:08 CDT