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A camera will take the picture of the screen that could not be screenshotted. Unconvenient, lower quality, unstoppable.

dredmorbius 4y ago
The analogue aperture, so to speak.
yencabulator 4y ago
"Unstoppable" only as long as camera manufacturers don't add the stop. You cannot make a color photocopy of (at least European) paper currency. That sort of thinking could be pushed to cameras too. (Though the original EURion was more about counterfeiting than about Hollywood studios.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
olau 4y ago
Could you use machine learning to reconstruct the original screenshot?
- pjc50 4y ago
  I've wondered about this, although you have to be careful with both the "enhance" process and subsequent OCR to not just insert lies. See this old Xerox bug: https://hexus.net/tech/news/peripherals/58605-serious-number-changing-bug-found-xerox-scans/ https://hexus.net/tech/news/peripherals/58605-serious-number... I expect someone will do "reconstruct original HD movie from one or more theater cam pirated copies" at some point too.
  - peatmoss 4y ago
    Or even better, a way of reproducing the work of Harmy's Despecialized Edition of Star Wars. You have a lot of frames of video in the blu-ray reissues that didn't really differ in content from the frames of video in the old laser disc, VHS, bad interlaced DVD transfers. I imagine it wouldn't be hard for AI to fill in the gaps to produce despecialized high-definition frames from the old Star Wars transfers. In other cases, I'd imagine you could use old post production NTSC broadcast and the OG 35mm films to do something much more akin to how Star Trek TNG was updated, than a simple interpolated upsampling.
- pmontra 4y ago
  Maybe prospective transformations would be enough, plus some pixel polishing.
gpderetta 4y ago
a few years ago there were talks about having cameras shut down when they detect watermarked content to close the analog hole. Luckily it didn't go anywhere, but start hoarding cameras!
- tenebrisalietum 4y ago
  Cinavia does this for audio.

The analogue aperture, so to speak.

"Unstoppable" only as long as camera manufacturers don't add the stop. You cannot make a color photocopy of (at least European) paper currency. That sort of thinking could be pushed to cameras too. (Though the original EURion was more about counterfeiting than about Hollywood studios.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

olau 4y ago

Could you use machine learning to reconstruct the original screenshot?

pjc50 4y ago
I've wondered about this, although you have to be careful with both the "enhance" process and subsequent OCR to not just insert lies. See this old Xerox bug: https://hexus.net/tech/news/peripherals/58605-serious-number-changing-bug-found-xerox-scans/ https://hexus.net/tech/news/peripherals/58605-serious-number... I expect someone will do "reconstruct original HD movie from one or more theater cam pirated copies" at some point too.
- peatmoss 4y ago
  Or even better, a way of reproducing the work of Harmy's Despecialized Edition of Star Wars. You have a lot of frames of video in the blu-ray reissues that didn't really differ in content from the frames of video in the old laser disc, VHS, bad interlaced DVD transfers. I imagine it wouldn't be hard for AI to fill in the gaps to produce despecialized high-definition frames from the old Star Wars transfers. In other cases, I'd imagine you could use old post production NTSC broadcast and the OG 35mm films to do something much more akin to how Star Trek TNG was updated, than a simple interpolated upsampling.
pmontra 4y ago
Maybe prospective transformations would be enough, plus some pixel polishing.

gpderetta 4y ago

a few years ago there were talks about having cameras shut down when they detect watermarked content to close the analog hole. Luckily it didn't go anywhere, but start hoarding cameras!

tenebrisalietum 4y ago
Cinavia does this for audio.