No more bootlegging with Digital Cinema?
It’s interesting to know that movie studios in America embed all sorts of “invisible” information into reels of film. From forensic watermarking, high pitch sounds to extra frames. All this being undectable to the average human or moviegoer.
Unfortunately this hasn’t really done too much to stop bootlegging. Plenty of people still secretly record movies in cinema’s around the US. So now studios are hoping to use the new digital technologies to overcome this. With digital movies you can embed whatever information of the sreening (ie. time, place) with the projector.
“No matter how low-quality it may be, you can trace it back to the source…”
This would make it supposedly easier to track down popular cinemas of bootleggers. But the studios and people behind the technology are not saying much, relying on ignorance of their techniques for them to work.
News Source: WIRED News