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DSL Gateways to Fight Piracy by Marking Video

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the movie-dna-testing dept.

Stony Stevenson wrote with an article about home gateway devices being set up to identify video pirates. The article reads: "Home gateway manufacturer Thomson SA plans to incorporate video watermarking technology into future set-top boxes and other video devices. The watermarks, unique to each device, will make it possible for investigators to identify the source of pirated videos. By letting consumers know the watermarks are there, even if they can't see them, Thomson hopes to discourage piracy without putting up obstacles to activities widely considered fair use, such as copying video for use on another device in the home or while traveling to work."

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  1. Won't work with BitTorrent by Emnar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The .torrent file you use to start downloading a BitTorrent file has checksums for all chunks of the file. If a chunk is altered in transit, the BT clients receiving it will detect this and discard it (and intelligent trackers will eventually kick you out of the P2P cloud).

    The only possible application for this is tagging files transferred as unencrypted streams, such as HTTP or FTP.

  2. Re:I'm not buying. by pipatron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm sorry, but the "Look at me, I have a low UID!" stopped working when people started to sell their accounts on eBay. Next time, try some real arguments.

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  3. Re:I'm not buying. by cduffy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're just jealous. :)

    When someone uses real arguments against me, I'll bother with real arguments to counter them. Claiming that I'm a shill without bothering to look at my posting history is just name-calling, not worth any kind of real response.

    (Also, my writing style is fairly distinctive; it shouldn't be all that hard to google up some old posts and check for contiguity, if someone really thought I wasn't who I say I am).