Piracy is wrong. There is no justification or desperate rationalizing that doesn’t make you look unethical. But my biggest issue with it is why anyone would want to ruin their movie experience trolling the internet looking for some blurry copy with shitty sound just to say you saw it first?
Well at least Japan is trying to make a technology that will be invisible to to the human eye, but crippling to video cameras, in hopes of eliminating the use of cameras to capture bootleg movies in their theaters.
Get the Big Picture reports:
Japan is trying to fight piracy at the source. Its National Institute of Informatics is working with Sharp to develop a new infrared technology that would render camcorder footage shot in theaters basically worthless. Though human eyes can’t detect the system working, infrared light pulses would pass through tiny holes in the screen at a rate of about ten per second. The resulting footage would be too blurry to watch, according to Wired, and since it would be a continuous pulse, it would theoretically cut down on illegal copies of movies made available…at least in Japan.
I imagine if this tech is successful in Japan that other markets will be adopting it pretty quick as well.
This does nothing to address the DVD rips that are floating around, but it is a step in the right direction.
If a mobile phone camera can see the light from a tv remote they just need a to make a bigger version and ruin any recording with random flashs!Simple! How many scientists did that take?
Thats because a TV remote uses Ifrared.
Which is precisely what they are talking about here.
what about bootlegged trailers? what about all the bootlegged footage from comic-con that people go nuts over?
just play devils advocate here…
Trailers are MEANT for public display.
They intentionally show these things at comic con and other venues ahead of the public release to build buzz. Bad quality bootlegs circulate the net to build buzz.
They get the bootlegs removed which causes you to google for another source, and that increases their rank on search engines.
Bootleg trailers are nothing but good for the movies. Bootleg movies are nothing but good business with theives.
THESE tailers are meant for the people who went to comic-con. You are right about meaning to build a buzz. They are shown ahead of time at events like these to build WORD OF MOUTH buzz. If it were truly meant for the public they would just release them that early. They are meant for the diehard fans that take the time and spend the money to go to events like these.
Bootlegging is bootlegging period.
You cant have it just one way.
Like i said i understand the difference between a film and a trailer. I just feel like for stuff like this you have to go the whole nine or dont go at all.
The internet IS word of mouth… with a keyboard.
Don’t kid yourself. They WANT you to bootleg trailers and they want sites just like this one and hundreds of others to post them.
You can’t steal something they offer for free. You can’t rationalize that sharing a trailer is illegal bootlegging when the studios are DESPERATE for you to see it.
Quite simply anything to stop the piracy of movies will be a step in the right direction and even if those unscrupulous pirates discover a way of filtering out the infrared at least it will scupper them for a while. It sounds like a relatively simple idea which hopefully won’t be too costly to implement.
As for the argument over people being fined for downloading illegal movies, which has been mentioned in a couple of comments? Whilst I disagree with illegal downloads full stop, I do think governments should be finding ways to target the source rather than those who download out of ignorance of the law, although ignorance is still no excuse.
The technology is already out there, it’s probably relatively new, but Chelsea’s (the greatest football team in the world) Owner Roman Abramowich has a similar system on his Brand new Yacht, however they call it an ‘Anti-paparazzi’ device – See link for the article:
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/53731,news,anti-paparazzi-device-fitted-to-roman-abramovich-yacht
I read another article on it, saying that it probably won’t work on single shot cameras, but would work in cinemas to stop camcorders, so I’m guessing this is a similar, but probably more expensive system than that being developed for cinemas!
Ricci
This is good news. I don’t know what pisses me off most about piracy. The poor quality or the people who buy them.
It may be true that it won’t stop everything. It may be true that it might have a minor impact. It may be true that it won’t stop piracy of DVD and DiVX rips.
But what is also true is that at least for a short or even long period of time there is a thorn in the heel of movie pirates across the lands.
Anything to make piracy difficult is fine by me.
Dai-joubu desu!
(That’s alright!)
This sucks, I thought of something like that first. But oh well, if it stops piracy, that’s all that matters.
Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry is forced to bootleg a movie at gunpoint.
I assume this will be detrimental to the piracy industry…
This’ll work for a bit until some newfangled technology comes along and undoes these security measures, which’ll put us back at square one.
I highly doubt the video camera makers are going to see a reason to create anti-infrared technology for their cameras to “fix” this problem.
No one said that that technology had to be legal or legitimate.
Awesome…. now if they could just make it so people can’t text / use their phone….maybe that would increase movie attendance.
Oh my god, great point.
We had to walk out of a movie Once because my brother in law told this guy to turn his cell phone off and he started cursng him out
“BITCH dont tell me to turn my shit off dawg, im a brookland brotha’ bitch FUCK YOU!”
This is not made up, he said WAY more but i wont say t because, i dont want people thinking i made this shit up
I think that a solution would be having a metal detector and turning in your phones in before walking in.
Better yet, what ever happened to ushers?
Whaaaaat? Whyd my comment get taken down? Lol
And usher is the same sort of pont im making, someone that makes sure your cell phone is dropped off.
Theaters DO have ushers right now, but they dont do what im suggesting, the cell phone lockers =]
You’re lucky. I’ve never been to a theatre that had ushers to shut people up.
I heard that in Ireland, some theaters have installed devices that block cell phone signals.
Yeah they walk in the middle of the movie with a flashlight to check that people arent tooling around.
We even have cops come in the middle of the movie on crowded fridays when teenagers are vast
Thematicus
I think its Scotland that has a computer where you buy tickets in which you can chose your seats and you see a bluprint of the seating chart and you can see which seats are taken or not and book a seat.
Some countries have some cool theater factors!
In Latin America (Especially Argentina) they actually have a little break time for five minutes to get food or bathroom if the movie is too long like say…LOTR or King Kong
While I agree piracy is wrong and filming a film is the worst form of piarcy. Its great someone has the brains to cut down on piracy at its source instead of punishing those that only wanted to see the film.
Correction: “those that only wanted to see the film without paying”
To be honest anyone who watches a Cam version of anything is retarded. I guess some are better quality than others but I am spoiled in this high definition age. I like crisp beautiful video and watching a shitty cam version would be like drinking generic lite Beer when I could have Guinness.
Hell, I even complained to the head office of a theater chain when I attended a movie and they were using an old worn out bulb in projector causing artifacts on the movie screen.
Let the chumps watch the cams if they want, I prefer quality.
Well of course people want to see a film without paying for it. However, its about the access of how to see the film. Its aloy easier to download then trying to sneak into a theater to see a film for free. That doesnt mean you should get a $10,000 fine with some jail time. Its those that set-up and distributed the movie illegally that should get busted.
excellent. I hate bootlegs.