Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Digital Watermark Working Group Update

By Marty Lafferty, CEO, DCIA

In late January, the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) began to invite leading content and technology companies to join our Members in forming the P2P Digital Watermark Working Group (PDWG) to establish business standards and practices for the use of digital watermarking to help secure licensed content in the steadily growing P2P distribution channel.

We are very thankful for Digimarc’s support of that effort, and are pleased with current progress that our Members and other industry participants are making in their introduction of new business models and technologies – real market solutions – that will enable P2P file sharing to reach its full potential as a mainstream channel for the distribution of copyrighted works.