[advocacy] Artist Licensing

[Karol Pietrzak]

On 12 Sep 2001, Daniel James wrote:

> > how useful do you think it would be to have
> > support for running GPG/PGP over the contents of an Ogg
> > verifying a signature embedded as a comment or in the metadata?
> >  That way you could know for sure that a particular song was
> > released to the public because it was signed by the artist.
>
> That sounds like the kind of 'secure music' I'd like to see. Not
> sharing-disabled, but artist-enabled. Listeners could know with
> some confidence that the artist's wishes were being respected,
> even if they got the file from a third party.

Thanks to Ogg Vorbis' very flexible tagging system, it can be
added _very_ easable with full backward-compatibility.  Simply
create a tag called "PGP_SIG" and put it in...

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