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Discussion on: Protecting audio assets with JavaScript and Web Audio API

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Raffael Zica • Edited

And then after all this effort the pirate just records the audio file from his sound card per loopback. Isn't as fast as straightforward as downloading the song but also not as hard as cracking encryption.

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Ilya Nevolin

That's mentioned in the article as well, no way of stopping that. But the goal is to prevent people from building scrapers/bots, which are as destructive as individual piracy acts.