A successor to the popular Artech House title Information Hiding Techniques for Steganography and Digital Watermarking, this comprehensive and up-to-date new resource gives a thorough review of steganography, digital watermarking and media fingerprinting with possible applications to modern communication.This book explores steganography, as a means by which two or more parties may communicate using invisible or subliminal communication. This practical resource also includes an introduction to watermarking and its methods, a means of hiding copyright data in images and discusses components of commercial multimedia applications that are subject to illegal use. This book demonstrates a working knowledge of watermarking's pros and cons, and the implications of watermarking to solve copyright issues on the Internet.