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Foiling Cinema Pirates
minesweeper writes "According to this Associated Press article, in fighting the piracy of advanced-screenings of movies, Hollywood has deployed agents with night vision goggles and placed metal-detectors at theater entrances. Nevertheless, video cameras are still being smuggled in and the recordings smuggled out and onto the Internet. Now, the latest attempt to fight piracy will be to show the movie with a particular flicker, imperceptible to the viewer in the theater, but making any video recording unwatchable. Quoth the article, 'Cinea LLC, which created an encryption system for DVDs, and Sarnoff, a technology research firm, are developing a system to modulate the light cast on a movie screen to create a flicker or other patterns that would be picked up by recording devices...'"
You mean I won't be able to download those pirated movie captures? So sad.. they are much better than DVDs, since you can actually feel like you're in the cinema. You hear the croud laughing, crying or eating popcorn, and see all the late people who block your vision.
I truly hope pirates will get over this obstacle.
hemi
So if you come out of the theatre wanting to COPY the movie, now you know why.
"Stop failing the Turing test!" -- Dilbert
Cool! Now your chance of getting epileptic seizures in the cinema is even bigger! Way to go!
In other news, massive increase in epilepsia has been reported.
This has already been discussed in the scene months ago and ways devised to circumvent these "protections"
So...nice try industry but you lose again. Better luck tomorrow!
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When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Sony announced their new line of digital video cameras today, which include a system developed to modulate flicker or other patterns that would ordinarily be picked up by recording devices.
those people who though it'd be a great idea to save money not having to hire a babysitter and bring their toddler who will, with fail, start crying exactly at the moment the opening credits start to appear.
Oooh, and also the people who really, really think everything is supposed to be laughed at by slapping their hands together while jumping up and down in their seat like a fucking spaz.
Let's not leave out the ugly Cassanova in the row in front of you making out with his horrid-looking girlfriend. Of course, we can't blame them since the movies are the only place where the lighting is just right.
And how can we leave out the dickheads who could have sat anywhere in an empty theater but sit right behind you, and seem to loose all control of their ability to control their legs, kicking the back of the seat every, goddamn, motherfucking, five minutes.
We can not forget all these people, for they are what make the movies a truly enjoyable experience, and make us all lose all hope for humanity.
why run from Vincenzo?
Would be really mean but they could make the flash represent a snow crash image that'll fry all the techies brains.
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
k-zed writes:
... And WIN.
"I agree. Also I wonder when people start complaining about all the headaches, experiencing random nausea and such after a movie screening, will the MPAA blame this on the pirates too in some roundabout way?"
Are you kidding? This is America. Someone will watch the pirated copy and sue the RIAA.
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Limekiller
Yeah, we have standards, dammit! We demand only the best from our stolen movies!
Maybe they're sick and tired of you bitching at them for stuff the MPAA is doing?
If somebody watches a pirated film, gets a headache, sues the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America, which obviously has nothing to do with film piracy), and still manages to win... then it's really time to move to Canada.
Sony threatened a lawsuit against Sony, claiming that the system developed to reduce flicker was primarily intended for circumventing access control on copyrighted motion pictures published by Sony and that Sony camcorders incorporating such a system violated the DMCA with respect to Sony's copyrights.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Free movies, of course
Now, the latest attempt to fight piracy will be to show the movie with a particular flicker, imperceptible to the viewer in the theater, but making any video recording unwatchable.
But Hollywood already makes too many unwatchable movies!
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
Actually, that's not the way the mp3 format works. Due to some really strange coincidence, all 0's happens to be "Rapper's Delight". It's weird, I know.
Now it will be harder and harder to make "Legitimate Copies" of screenings I have already paid for. Now I'll have to wait for a mod-chip to come out for my video camera, or wait for someone to do the equivalent with only a memory stick
Overly Critical Guy writes:
"At least you used your karma bonus modifier to reply."
Karma? Oh, right. The fatwah-of-disagreement on Slashdot. Oh dear. Gotta save my precious karma. *sigh
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"You adhere to the random-humor category, attempting to be as randomly goofy as you can and hopeing it's funny."
I encourage you to run -- not walk, run -- to your preferences and add me as a foe.
What is it with you people? About every 6 months I wind up attracting someone agitated and spiteful and they insist on trying to one-up the sarcasm. Makes me wonder who they are trying to convince...
Good luck. I mean that.
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