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Display devices do this, but for advertising targeting, not copyright violation right now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_content_recognition https://e

Display devices do this, but for advertising targeting, not copyright violation right now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_content_recognition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_content_recognition Detecting copyright violation would need some sort of license info side channel so your TV knew what subscriptions, what digital copies, what BluRays, etc, you owned. Fortunately that's basically an impossible thing to wrangle currently, but if things like Blu-Rays go away it starts to be more feasible ("Oh, you're watching this show in 8K? Please connect your Netflix account to verify your access.") Once the technical capability is there, how can we best stop it? That's where I don't have good answers. Possibly the only thing unique about what Apple is doing is that they announced it.

jrumbut 5y ago
> Detecting copyright violation would need some sort of license info side channel so your TV knew what subscriptions, what digital copies, what BluRays, etc, you owned. An anti-piracy scheme that respected legitimate use would need this. History suggests that breaking existing media so that you have to buy (or rent) new copies of the same content over and over may be seen as a feature rather than a bug.
Scaevolus 5y ago
There is a DRM scheme that uses fingerprinting to detect unauthorized play (Cinavia), but it requires the player to implement the detection. In practice this just means you can't play ripped movies using blu-ray players or Sony devices like Playstations.
heavyset_go 5y ago
You don't need a licensing side channel if you just detect watermarks from pirated/leaked recordings.
amelius 5y ago
> Detecting copyright violation would need some sort of license info side channel so your TV knew what subscriptions, what digital copies, what BluRays, etc, you owned. Did you know that there is ethernet running over HDMI already?

jrumbut 5y ago

> Detecting copyright violation would need some sort of license info side channel so your TV knew what subscriptions, what digital copies, what BluRays, etc, you owned. An anti-piracy scheme that respected legitimate use would need this. History suggests that breaking existing media so that you have to buy (or rent) new copies of the same content over and over may be seen as a feature rather than a bug.

Scaevolus 5y ago

There is a DRM scheme that uses fingerprinting to detect unauthorized play (Cinavia), but it requires the player to implement the detection. In practice this just means you can't play ripped movies using blu-ray players or Sony devices like Playstations.

heavyset_go 5y ago

You don't need a licensing side channel if you just detect watermarks from pirated/leaked recordings.

amelius 5y ago

> Detecting copyright violation would need some sort of license info side channel so your TV knew what subscriptions, what digital copies, what BluRays, etc, you owned. Did you know that there is ethernet running over HDMI already?