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Did anyone else assume the 100 different versions were for some sort of piracy identification? Meaning 100 different versions with just a slight change that no
by jamesbressi 17y ago
Did anyone else assume the 100 different versions were for some sort of piracy identification? Meaning 100 different versions with just a slight change that no one would notice, but Cameron or the studio would be able to identify and help round down to what theater or region would have had that copy?
- mapleoin 17y agothen why stop at 100?
- unperson 17y agoAt some point you'll be spending more to stop piracy than you're losing because of it.
- andrewcooke 17y agowell, you might assume that once you get past some number (less, i would think, than 100) you can automate the process sufficiently to make each one distinct (if we are talking about "watermark" changes and not labour-intensive things like translations).
- pierrefar 17y agoI thought of that too, but decided it would have been easier to put "invisible" watermarks throughout the movie stream that can be detected even after compression. Say imperceptible color variations that a computer can pick up if it knows which frames to search.
- abentspoon 17y agoIt seems watermarking with a patern of dots is already popular, but embeding the watermark in a color histogram might be much less distracting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_code
- lanstein 17y agoI thought they used telltale sounds to detect the guy who they just caught in France, no?