Automatic Scanning for Cameras in Theaters

An anonymous reader writes "A Florida firm claims to have found a solution for the movie industry to prevent bootlegging in theaters. Tom's Hardware carries a story about Trakstar, which demonstrated its 'PirateEye' technology in a Hollywood movie theater to journalists and movie industry representatives: The technology uses light impulses to detect video recording devices. A second component is an audio watermarking system."

Comments

Re:Something I've wanted for years ...

[Lumpy]

And before you liberties people get started, I believe I have a right to not get my picture taken, when I want not to get my picture taken.

on your own property? yes you do.

in public? Not a chance in hell.

I already had a nice fight with a jerk that though his "image" was his property in a public place.

It's sad that as a indie documentarian I have to use lawyers and courts against some idiot that saw we were recording, walked behind the subject and into frame and then tried to demand the tape we were shooting with. I was lucky that my DA was smart enough to call 911 the second the guy started talking to us... it also helped that the DP filmed this asshat threatening us.

If you see someone filming, it is YOUR responsibility to get out of the field of view and out of the way same as with someone photographing.

if you are in public, then your public image is public property.

I do not care what you believe, until there is a law that states otherwise, everyone owns your image when you are in public.

I see your problem

[dcollins]

Our adventures with Electronic Arts began less than a year ago.

As a former 5-year veteran of the PC game industry (I think that counts as veteran)... only someone who's been exposed to the industry less than a year could think to right this article. Of course it's totally on-target and correct, but it's SO omnipresent that no one who's been in it for a length of time would think to be so outraged.

Myself and friends (all with prior gaming experience) have had phone interviews where we were practically hung up on if we tried to put ANY limitations or boundaries on the hours we might work. Even to "reasonable" amounts of crunch time.