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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
theres lots of different things you can do, lets say you own a tubesite, after a surfer has drained a certain amount of bw you could make the ads twice as big for that surfer.
but the idea in general is tracking a user from your end instead of letting a user tell you who they are by the cookie on a users computer.
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well I think you could accomplish that by simply tracking usage by IP address or username, or random keys.
I thought the first idea about embedding the fingerprint into a video to track it back to an IP address or username was feasible but still you would have to maintain the database of fingerprint to IP relations and hope that the fingerprint isn't removed in a re-encode.
Then if you found a video with one of your members fingerprints on a tube site- what would you do with that information? Are you going to ban the fingerprint from your server (requiring you to check every fingerprint on entrance)? Do you send them threatening emails about stealing content? heh
I still think it's a great idea to track users without dependency on an IP address it's just a matter of why you would need to do that. Affiliate tracking via fingerprint?