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...'"

Comments

the downside is...

[Midajo]

the resulting migraines will be unbearable.

Re:Don't forget...

[tx_mgm]

i'm suprised that neither of you mentioned cell phones going off.....and people actually answering and talking on them without leaving the theater!
few weeks ago when i went to see daredevil, this asshole got 3 phone calls during the movie and had a 5 minute or more conversation each time. i dont know if the management ignored complaints or if anyone even went out to complain. it's kind of like when some piece of shit runs in and turns on the lights in the middle of the movie and runs out laughing. it annoys everyone to no end, but then nobody will get up to turn them back off...
I am so glad that pirates out there can capture this experience! why should i have to pay for a quiet, uninterrupted movie when i can get the "real" thing for free? =)