There’s an old Seinfeld episode where Jerry agrees to become a bootlegger. His skills at recording the screen with a tiny, hand-held camera are top-notch, so he’s roped into helping out the little kid on the street who can’t get into R rated movies. You know the episode I’m talking about, the one where Elaine dances all weird. (Here comes the horrible segue-way!) If this new technology is widely adopted, episodes like that won’t ever happen again.
The National Institute of Informatics in Japan, along with Sharp, has developed some sort of IR-based anti-piracy measure that makes it impossible to record a movie theater screen. Quick pulses of light are blasted onto the screen from behind that, while not noticeable to the human eye, render a video camera’s recording unwatchable. Filters on the camera could try to filter out the light, but the picture would be quite blurry.
No, I have no idea what the included pic is supposed to represent.
“First you cry, then you cry again.”
That’s crazy. I think the picture on the right is showing what the bootlegger’s copy of the film would look like after they institute this new anti-piracy measure. Not THAT annoying, but I’m sure they could make it worse, heh.
Soooooooo…. they’re going to put tiny windows into all the trees?
I’m kinda down with that.
But then they’ll put little people jumping out of the windows to their death, and while you won’t notice it while you’re watching, you’ll have horrific nightmares and a crippling acrophobia for the rest of your life. Take that, pirate!
its the subliminal messaging that will kill all pirates? why didn’t they think of this before?
Yeah, I sure would hate to have to put an IR filter on my video camera. That would take all of…um…10 seconds.
Why bother. Most of the pirate film releases come from witin the industry anyway. DVD previews etc
lul who watches cams? a friend of mine’s Dad bout like 3 movies for 10 dollars one day and came back all happy and i was like dude, i garuntee you those films are xvids and are gonna Blow… he pops em in and sure enough total crap lol i was like dude, your an idiot.
This won’t prevent me from making an analog copy with my sketchbook, though.