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Audio Watermarks Could Pinpoint Film Pirates By Seat

Posted by timothy on from the also-look-for-the-glowing-red-lights dept.

Slatterz points out a brief mention at PC Authority of a story at Torrent freak about using watermarking embedded in movies' soundtracks to reveal the exact location of camera-wielding bootleggers in a theater; the inventors (here's an abstract of their paper) claim it's accurate to within 44 centimeters.

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  1. Re:No, the dots serve a different purpose. by StikyPad · · Score: 0, Troll

    Another fun fact: If parents are too strict or begin toilet training too early, Freud believed that an anal-retentive personality develops in which the individual is stringent, orderly, rigid, and obsessive.

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  2. Re:No, the dots serve a different purpose. by StikyPad · · Score: 0, Troll

    Freud believed the obsessive compulsion for order originated in the toilet training phase. Parents who scolded their child for making a mess would, literally, cause the child to become anal-retentive.

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