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Posted by nobody special on 01/15/08 01:56
Any such protection can be defeated, if they want it bad enough. Youc
an defeat itunes crudely by micing your computer's speakers and re-
recording, if you're desperate enough. You can hijack any video using
a simple screen grabber program or scan converter attached to the VGA
port for the monitor. Nothing is immune to being grabbed, if it can
be viewed. Worst case somebody will just shoot an LCD screen with a
camcorder if they want something bad enough.
Anything that's watchable and audible is stealable. Your best defense
is to make it inconvenient or ovely costly to steal and re-sell, by
watermarking the footage in some obvious way, with time code windows
or transparent logos, or to release individually numbererd copies from
which you can discover who has allowed a copy to be made and then
legally prosecute that copy's official owner... Oscar movie screener
DVD's have this feature, encoded in several different ways, as complex
as a text file in the closed-captioning interal, or simple but sneaky
as one subliminal message on one individual field in an entire film,
only the makers know where to find it.And it's differnetly palced in
every copy that goes out, like a fingerprint that leads back tot he
person who signed a contract saying they would not allow this copy to
be dubbed. Of course, you still have to find a pirate copy out there
before you can identify and prosecute. You add that to the pirate's
bill during damages discussions in court.
Perhaps the best antipiracy is to make the originals too cheap to make
pirating worth someone's time. If it's $200, someone will pirate it
and sell it for less and still make good profits. If it's $30, they
can make a profit if sold in high volume. If it's $20, only more
dedicated pirates may bother. At 10 bucks or less, it becomes not
worth the effort to rip off and replicate to only make five bucks or
less per copy.
How do YOU still make a profit at ten bucks a unit? Put advertising
on the disk or in the stream. Have it underwritten by someone who
wants to reach that particular audience, in which case the underwriter
is happy if people make and pass around extra bootleg copies all day
long.
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