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'''''Digital imprimatur''''' is a term widely associated with [[John Walker (programmer)|John Walker]], due to his article of the same name. Traditionally in the [[Roman Catholic Church]], an [[imprimatur]] is a censor's official approval of publication. Thus a digital imprimatur is needed under a system of [[internet censorship]].
==Apple Lossless Encoding==
Shouldn't [Apple Lossless Encoding] be under lossless, or am I missing something? [[User:Ben Newman|1189]] 13:56, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)
John Walker argues in his article ''The Digital Imprimatur: How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle'', that there is increasingly a crackdown on the ability for internet users to voice their ideas, as well as an upcoming official state of internet censorship on the horizon. Walker claims that the most likely candidate to usher in the digital imprimatur is [[digital rights management]], or DRM.
==Coder/Decoder==
Similar scenarios have been predicted by others, including [[Richard Stallman]], in his article and essay ''The Right to Read''.
I added this wording, since it's also commonly used. It came back with 44,000 Google hits [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22coder%2Fdecoder%22&btnG=Search], one of which was a definition in the CNET glossary [http://www.cnet.com/Resources/Info/Glossary/Terms/codec.html]. --[[User:Blackcats|Blackcats]] 15:59, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
Other people predict the establishment of a [[dynamic equilibrium]] between repressive official and commercial and more free but in some cases illegal technologies, resulting in the emergence of [[darknet]]s and [[anonymous P2P]] systems, together with alternative networking systems (including but not limited to [[sneakernet]]s and both fixed and ad-hoc [[wireless mesh network]]s), and vivid [[underground culture]] and [[black market]] centered on them, in accordance with the [[iron law of prohibition]].
:I just looked through the article history and found out that a few months ago it used the coder meaning and then it was replaced with compressor. If anything, I think the coder meaning should actually come first, as it has more than twice as many Google hits [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Compressor-Decompressor%22&btnG=Search]. It would be nice to find a source for the origin of the term, but just going by the sound of it, "codec" sounds a lot more like "coding" than "compressing." I would think that if the original meaning was compressor/decompressor, then it would be called "comdec" or something like that. --[[User:Blackcats|Blackcats]] 16:20, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
==See also==
::(en)coder/decoder is simply a more general concept. A codec doesn't necessarily compress data, it just converts data from one representation to another. For example, a YUV codec would convert data from RGB to YUV and/or vice-versa. That has nothing to with compression, it might just be a more appropriate representation respectively one that a software or hardware can handle. --[[User:82.141.48.65|82.141.48.65]] 02:44, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
*[[Trusted computing]]
== Misleading Information ==
*[[Digital rights management]]
==External links==
On the first Paragraph, "Compressor-Decompressor" or "Coder-Decoder" is basically not really the same thing, which need to be explained separately.
* [http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ The Digital Imprimatur: How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle]
* [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html The Right to Read] by [[Richard Stallman]].
[[Category:Digital rights management]]
On second paragraph, It tells about Video/Audio Codec, which will be more appropiate to be on "Video Codec" or "Audio Codec" Article
[[Category:Censorship]]
The Third paragraph, I believe CoDec is not only about Encoding or Decoding.
The 4th is similar as the second.
==Question==
How do you get the audio to work?... for the videos at [http://www.visual-voice.com/BNN/serieslist.asp http://www.visual-voice.com/BNN/serieslist.asp]
An error pop up reads... This file may not play correctly because it was compressed by using a codec that is not supported.
There's no audio for the videos when trying to view them on this [http://www.apple.com/support/imac/g4/ iMac flat panel silvery gooseneck white desklamp shape apple G4 computer] with OS X 10.3.9
==Conciseness at the cost of clarity==
The explanation "This function is carried out by a video file format (or container), such as *.mpg, *.avi, *.mov, *.mp4, *.rm, *.ogg or *.tta. Some of these formats are limited to containing streams conforming to a small fixed set of codecs, while others are intended to be more general purpose." has just been replaced by a simple link to container formats. I don't think that was a good idea.
I don't really understand all this but reducing everything down to the bare minimum makes it far harder for people like me to understand. To understand what a codec is you need to know what a container format is and to understand what a container format is you need to know what a codec is. Trying to use wiki to get my head round this is a bit like reading an account of the battle of Gettysburg which has been split into [[Confederate actions at the Battle of Gettysburg]] and [[Union actions at the Battle of Gettysburg]]. Repeating stuff that appears on another page is not the worst thing in the world.[[User:Dejvid|Dejvid]] 19:46, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
:IMHO this kind of information should go into [[Audio file format]]. --[[User:Hhielscher|Hhielscher]] 20:15, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
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