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does it protect a user from holding up a video camera to the screen, then duplicating that tape?
not to say this type of technology wouldn't be awesome - it surely would be, and I'm not entirely sure if this might be a joke or not, but if you are serious - I certainly think this would be a step in the right direction as long as it didn't effect the honest end user in any way (think DRM failure).
It would eliminate the house brand of pirate, and greatly reduce piracy, but the big boys would circumvent the technology as quickly as you could update it, and at the end of the day...as long as it requires eyeballs to see something on a screen, a camcorder can pirate it. Again though - it would GREATLY improve the situation (as long as it wasn't cracked) -
Windows Vista was apparently uncrackable back before it was released, because you'd have to connect to Microsoft's authentication server. So someone took the authentication server, put it on the hacked install disc. You set up a Virtual server, which is microsoft's authentication server and connect to yourself, and basically authenticate your copy of vista on your own. This is just one example of the ingenuity of pirates.
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