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I've seen bootlegged movies from camcorders in theaters. Those are bad enough. The thought of something recorded from some guy's headmounted camera, with thou
by mgkimsal 13y ago
I've seen bootlegged movies from camcorders in theaters. Those are bad enough. The thought of something recorded from some guy's headmounted camera, with thousands of tiny movements, breathing, twitching, slouching, eating and more makes me wonder who on earth would even think a recording made that way would be valuable.
- diydsp 13y agoIt's all about the _cloud_, my friend: with superresolution techniques, each glass user can contribute pixel blocks that get re-synthesized into the original.
- eruditely 13y agoThis comment is such a mark of the times.
- krapp 13y agoIt would probably take less effort to just break into the theater and steal the film.
- pmorici 13y agoTheaters are pretty much all digital now and the actual files are encrypted so I doubt breaking and entering alone would get you very far. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/128963-how-digital-technology-is-reinventing-cinema/2 http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/128963-how-digital-techno...
- MichaelGG 13y agoThe files are encrypted, but obviously the hardware to decrypt them is right there. Now I understand those DRM systems have advanced intrusion detection and whatnot, but still it'd be quite a good start to make off with all their hardware.
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoThe hardware is useless, you need a key from the studio.
- MichaelGG 13y agoBut at some point during the day, the key has to be loaded somewhere in order to decrypt and play. Although it might be only in protected memory and must be requested online during playback. Maybe even uses multiple keys during playback.
- coldtea 13y agoSo if you break the law badly it's OK?
- mgkimsal 13y agoNo, I just don't understand why you'd even bother 'breaking the law' at that point - I can't imagine the rewards would be all that compelling for a 'glass-copy' bootleg.
- coldtea 13y agoWell, I've seen several screeners of movies with equally bad technology -- especially when a movie first comes out in the theaters. Things that look like someone just put a compact camera on a tripod. That there are high quality rips for most movies doesn't mean this doesn't also happen.
- ben1040 13y agoNot only that, but a recording that's been truncated at 25 minutes or so because either the battery ran out or the Glass device itself got too hot and went into thermal shutdown mode.