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Mpeg 7 To Include Per-Frame Content Identification
An anonymous reader writes "NEC has announced that its video content identification technology has been incorporated in the upcoming Mpeg 7 video standard, allowing for each video frame to have its own signature, meaning that even minute changes to the file such as adding subtitles, watermarks or dogtags, and of course cutting out adverts, will alter the overall signature of the video. According to NEC this will allow the owners of the video to automatically 'detect illegal copies' and 'prevent illegal upload of video content' without their consent. NEC also claims that its technology will do away with the current manual checking by members of the movie industry and ISPs to spot dodgy videos."
how could you have missed the joke? do you have no sense of humour? he even put a /s(arcasm) in the end!
You're so frustrating.
Sigs are for the weak.
The /s is supposed to denote sarcasm? To me that looks like either a broken manual signature or a broken HTML3 strikethrough end tag. You see, the problem with all these idiosyncratic "this denotes sarcasm" practices is that they're idiosyncratic. The only two ones I know to work are either making the content an obvious mockery of itself (as was the case in the GGP) and "</sarcasm>". "/s", "~", "!" and "..." are all ambiguous.
As for the GGP's post itself: The legisnation is far too tame, you pirate. The authorities should be required by law to immediately execute without process or investigation everyone suspected of consuming media without having the proper license to do so. Only force can protect us from the single greatest threat mankind has ever encountered, copyright infringement theft.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
"I didn't miss the sarcasm. I just think it's time for consumers to start making some demands of our own."
Vote with your wallet. Most DRM-protected content is mass-market pop culture shit you should despise anyway.
There are alternative artists who don't despise their audience. Pay them instead and spit out that fat, greasy, scabrous media cock so many crave.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
Pedobear has multiple accounts with mod points. I'm pretty sure kdawson is his primary account - only a 4chan deity could mass-troll us for years, get away with it, and not raise suspicion.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
> I may be mistaken...but can't the commercials be taken out of DVD's just leaving the movie in place...if you decide you want to break DRM to make a backup of the video you purchased?
Yes, if you go the extra mile to use a DVD ripper etc. but then you're already breaking the DMCA or similiar laws.
> Always thought there was a FF button on the remote which will skip any of this?
Pressing FF five times or more (while always having to wait 1-2 seconds in between for the player to load the next advertisement track) isn't my idea of advert-free DVD watching. The Menu button is usually disabled. Also, why should I have to stare at some 'copyright notice' for 10 seconds or more every time I put in the disk? You can't FF through that.