[Tig] t/c on pirated feature

[Jack James]

When I was at university, I did some stuff on digital watermarking (this was
about 8 years ago, mind).
You could take a still image, put a hidden watermark on it (and it was
hidden, we did difference mattes and still couldn't isolate it) and
basically tried to break it. by the time we'd broken it, it was severely
degraded compared to the original.

What interests me about all this is where the responsibility lies. Is it
really down to the theatres to police people bringing video cameras? I don't
see anyone complaining about people pointing camcorders at a DVD playing on
a home TV...

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Micheletti, Bob (NBC Universal) <
bob.micheletti at nbcuni.com> wrote:

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> I am heavily involved in making sure that none of our pre-release
> material gets out and if it does that we can track it back to one person
> or company.  There are several methods of "watermarking" images that are
> very reliable and not visible, even through several crappy generations
> of dubs on VHS.  As far as the final release there are the visible marks
> printed on the film and digital cinema projectors also put a unique
> "finger print" the presentation.  It turns out that most high profile
> thefts, the ones that go to a third world country and get mass produced,
> are camcordered in a small number of theaters in a particular area.
> With that information in hand it is easier to set up infrared cameras,
> as Rob said, and catch the pirates.
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> Bob Micheletti
> Engineer Universal Pictures
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> > On Jul 29, 2008, at 6:31 PM, TSassoon at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > identify which print a camcorder copy is made from. How
> > does this stop
> > > piracy?
> >
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> Rob Lingelbach wrote:
> > incidentally I think some theaters also use infrared imaging
> > to detect
> > the heat of camcorder transports.   there could be some other
> > interesting things detected as well.
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