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Consumer Electronics, Hollywood Work Against 'Video Napster'

Posted by michael on from the they-control-the-horizontal dept.

cadfael writes: "The EETimes reports that "a new working group within the existing Copyright Protection Technology Working Group (CPTWG) will review a technical method for flagging video content that is not authorized for Internet transmission. ... The group was formed at the suggestion of Gary Shapiro, head of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), in a letter sent roughly two weeks ago to Jack Valente, head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)." Does this make sense in the light of this article?"

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  1. Re:If you can play it, you can copy it by arkanes · · Score: 3, Informative

    For what it's worth, EA doesn't seem to use SafeDisc anymore - probably for exactly that reason. I have 3(4?) games that I really enjoy that use SafeDisc, and it's an amazing pain to have to crack them each time I re-install them.

  2. Re:I must be missing something here... by regen · · Score: 4, Informative
    ... you would be forced to degrade the video quality until the watermark is lost, losing the advantage of digital copies.

    It is fairly easy to prove that you can remove any watermark without significantly changing the signal to noise ratio of the image. Several people, including myself (as part of my PhD research in 1995) have proven this and published the proof. Unfortunately, the people watermarking digital media don't pay attention to research that doesn't match what they want to hear.

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