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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...'"

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  1. I hate reruns... by Baloo+Ursidae · · Score: 0, Troll
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  2. So what? by zdzichu · · Score: 0, Troll

    Pretty nice technices.
    But I will watch matrix reloaded downloaded from warez site beside that.

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  3. Re:Subliminable messages by zilly · · Score: 0, Troll

    Subliminal.