Episode 1326 • • 2:40:07 - 2:46:12
1326: Freedom Bracelet
Content Provenance Coalition, Anti-Piracy Smokescreen
Tech giants including Microsoft, Adobe, and Intel formed the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) to establish standards for tracing the origin of digital content. While framed as a tool to combat "disinformation," analysts suggest the primary goal is to embed CPU-level watermarks to track and prevent software and media piracy. This move is seen as an extension of the "trusted computing" initiatives of the 1990s.