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Why is the recording industry unable to leverage current, digital technology to allow for uncompromised listening/recording while being able to stave off those who would abuse such a privilege? One would think that a digital code could be added that acts like a watermark but does not affect sound quality. Maybe it's time for the recording industry to embrace Silicon Valley.

I won't buy any product that has audible watermarks.

I think all this copyright stuff stinks. If you alter the recording after all the mixdown to interject artifacts for pure greed, it's crap.

why spend money on a high rez format if the music is going to be degraded by a watermark.

What's the point of a high-resolution audio format that's deliberately distorted—especially as it won't stop the pirates anyway!

A boycott would be best, but will not work because of the number of people buying who have tin ears.

People who want to pirate music for profit will find a way to get around anything the manufacturers can do, so why degrade the sound?

Record companies again seem blindly determined to bite the hands that feed them. When will they ever learn?

Prevents personal use, which is peermitted under current copyright laws.

If I purchase a DVD Audio disc, I perfer not to have any watermarks on the disc. If such marks are put on the discs, I simply will not purchase.

The manufacture find away to make something better sounding and the paranoid record companies find away screw it up.

it, SUCKS!!

The RIAA fiddles while their empire continues to burn around them. That giant sucking sound is the millions of music consumers shifting to web-based content delivery systems.

I would not by any disk, in which I am paying for "extra quality" sound, if there is something altering the original signal.

This is a no-brainer. There is no way I'll buy into further idiocy of this nature. It simply makes no sense. I probably won't even buy the new gear if there's only a limited number of releases not watermarked. The reasoning behind using the watermarking is flawed. It reminds me of kindergarten when the whole class was punished when one child acted up. There was no real logic in this treatment then and it makes less sense now. Tell these cretins not to insult us further with their nonsense.

There is always going to be a way to hack the copy protection especially in the digital age.

watermarking is a fraud, a sham!!!! it will never work!! people will still pirate it watermark or no. I will never buy an inherently flawed product!! There is no excuse for ruining a recording in any way shape or form, especilly when it is a techonologicaly advanced and very sensitive method. I would already have a dvda player if it was not for the watermarking BS. The fact that there is a mark on the disk will not stop me from using it for things that it was not designed for.

MOST PEOPLE DON'T STEAL COPYRIGHT MATERIAL. THE ONES THAT DO WILL FIND A WAY NO MATTER WHAT IS DONE TO THE DICS.

Why waste your time? Hackers will find a way to crack the watermark before it hits the street!

Watermarking new recordings is just another attempt to control the distribution of a new format and the profits to be found.Given the inevitable arrival of on-line downloads,the music companies would be better served by making cd's,dvd-a's,and sacd's as reasonably priced as possible. The big music companies made Napster possible by overcharging for cd's.Do they really think that watermarks will protect themselves from the results of their own greed?