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Mandatory Banknote Detection Code?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the this-just-won't-work dept.

metamatic writes "The European Union is planning to introduce legislation to make it mandatory for software developers to add black-box banknote detection code to their graphics software.How will this apply to open source software? Is it time to get writing to your Euro-MP?"

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  1. Photoshop does this by b0lt · · Score: 5, Informative

    Link here

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    got sig?
  2. Don't you mean "forgery" by gotr00t · · Score: 5, Informative
    With all this propaganda that the RIAA, BSA, and similar organizations trying to indoctrinate us with, I'm finding that the term "piracy" is being thrown around much loosely nowadays.

    The term for faking currency is "forgery" with fake currency being "counterfeit". "Piracy" has nothing to do with it.

  3. Re:Since currency changes so (relatively) often... by LostCluster · · Score: 4, Informative

    The "partern" is a series of circles with the correct proportial relationship between the distance and the diameters of the circles. Therefore, you don't have to know what the 2008 currency design will look like, instead you can presume that the 2008 series designers are going to follow the patern that the code was already designed to notice.

  4. Re:T-shirts by Gorath99 · · Score: 4, Informative
    >>Unless you've got an extremely flat abdomen, the positioning will get screwed up
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    >What about on the back of the t-shirt?

    Here's an image of the pattern. As you can see, it's pretty subtle. Putting the shirt directly under a scanner will probably trigger the protection, but wearing it will almost certainly mess up the pattern enough for it not to be recognised. The human body just isn't very flat anywhere.

    Of course, I haven't actually tried it myself, so I could be wrong. If that's so, then such a shirt would be wicked cool.

  5. Re:Duh...? by avij · · Score: 4, Informative

    The more valuable Euro banknotes are indeed physically larger than less valuable notes. Here's a link for you.

    As for braille, the notes do not have any braille codes on them, but the banknotes are printed in relief, using a special printing method known as intaglio. The EUR 200 and EUR 500 banknotes have tactile marks printed in intaglio and positioned along their edges. This should help blind people to recognize the notes.

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    Follow your Euro bills at EBT
  6. Re:Duh...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    We don't have one dollar bills mog. ;-)

    Another thing that would make it difficult is the plastic window thingy on the notes.
    Each note has a transparent section on it. The transparent section is a different design and shape for different values of the note.

    Even if the notes weren't difference sizes and textures, even if it were possible to bleach them some how. The transparent section would still be different for different values of notes.

    I must say I like the plastic money over our old paper money, I've saved hundreds of dollars in potentially lost money from the washing machine.