HTTPS for Music: Who Plays the Certificate Authority?
Twenty years ago, most of the web ran in the clear. Anyone on the path could read the page, and nobody could prove which server they were talking to. The fix was not a law and not a detector. It was a protocol with a trust layer around it, and today a padlock in the address bar is so ordinary that nobody notices it. That is what winning looks like for infrastructure: invisibility.
Music has the mirror-image problem in 2026. Since August 2, Article 50 of the EU AI Actrequires providers of systems that generate audio to embed machine-readable markings so that synthetic content can be detected as synthetic. The machines must confess. But the regime runs in one direction only: proving that content is artificial. Nothing in it attests that a piece of music was made by a person, on a date, before anyone had reason to doubt...
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