Hidden Metadata

[budwzr]

I've been authoring a few songs lately, and I don't want anybody to be able to wipe out my copyright info. Are there any audio conversion utilities out there that I should be aware of that pirates can use to steal my music by "cleaning" my info?

Thanks

[Ai Haibara]

Are you considering the use of DRM (Windows Media, Apple, etc.)? Any conversion software could potentially wipe out (or not keep) the metadata/tag info when converting the song. Heck, I don't even know if the YouTube downloaders would keep any such info intact for anything grabbed from YouTube (since, as I recall, you are using YT for a few things)... then again, YouTube's re-encoding probably strips it all, anyway.

[jagabo]

Contact Cinavia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia

Or look into audio steganography. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

Of course, there's nothing technical you can do to stop pirates. Only to identify what's yours for future legal action.

[budwzr]

Thanks.