EarWormRights & securityNot built yet
Rights & security Not built yet

Locked tight. Licensed right.

Every stream on EarWorm — playlists, cards, and the TV station — moves under a DRM protocol: license-gated playback, forensic watermarking, and rights routed to the people who own the music. Partners below are described by what they do, not who they are.

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DRM protocol, demonstrated

Playback only happens under a live license lease. Request one, stream while it's valid, watch it expire — then the player locks itself.

NO LICENSE LOCKED request a lease to unlock playback
demo lease — production keys are issued and burned server-side

Forensic watermark

Every session's streams carry an invisible mark. Leak a stream and the mark walks it straight back to the session that leaked it.

This session's mark
WM-······
shown here for the demo — invisible and unstrippable in production

Harden sweep

Run the security posture check the app runs on itself.

  • ·Transport pinned — TLS only, certs pinned
  • ·Session tokens rotated & short-lived
  • ·Chat sealed end-to-end, 1:1 only
  • ·Uploads signed & malware-scanned
  • ·Playback license-gated, keys device-bound
  • ·Forensic watermark live on all streams
SWEEP CLEAN · HARDENED

Claim your master

Creators: fingerprint your track and any catch, card, or broadcast of it routes credit — and money — to you.

demo scan — production matches against the licensed fingerprint registry

Vetted third parties — by function only

Names are disclosed in diligence under confidentiality, never on the site. What matters here is the job each one does for this initiative.

Payment processingCard and bank rails, PCI DSS Level 1 — EarWorm never touches raw card numbers.
NAME WITHHELD · VETTED
Identity & age verificationRegulated KYC checks for creator payouts and prize-pool winners.
NAME WITHHELD · VETTED
Rights & royalty clearanceLicensed clearing partner routes stream and broadcast royalties to rights holders, per territory.
NAME WITHHELD · VETTED
Audio fingerprint matchingIndustry-grade registry that powers catches and creator claims.
NAME WITHHELD · VETTED
Forensic watermarkingStudio-grade session marking on every stream, including EarWorm TV broadcasts.
NAME WITHHELD · VETTED
Cloud, CDN & storageSOC 2–audited infrastructure; media encrypted at rest and in flight.
NAME WITHHELD · VETTED
Anti-piracy & takedown opsMonitors leaks, files takedowns, and enforces the 24-hour SLA.
NAME WITHHELD · VETTED
In detail

What protects you today

The DRM, watermarking and licensing above are planned for when EarWorm streams full works. These protections are already running.

Live today

  • Your recordings are not kept: the clip used to identify a song is discarded after matching.
  • Every table in the database is locked so each person can only reach their own data.
  • Every endpoint is rate limited, and a strict content security policy runs on every page.
  • Delete your account yourself, immediately, from Settings.
  • Studio’s ownership and money records are enforced by the database and cannot be quietly rewritten.

Not built yet

  • License-gated playback, forensic watermarking, master claiming and the third-party partners described above are not in place yet.

Takedowns

Rights holders can file a takedown through the DMCA page, and anyone can report content from the Report page.

Found a security issue?

Report it privately through the security contact page. Reports are taken seriously and handled directly.

Questions people ask

Does EarWorm host music?

No. EarWorm identifies recordings and links out to streaming services. Radio channels play the previews rights holders publish for discovery.

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