Video DNA Can Help Stop Pirated Movies From Playing
 

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have devised a way to develop a video DNA that will allow video players to not play pirated movie content. Today?s anti-piracy mechanism relies on a digital signature inside the original disc, but pirates have been able to circumvent this anti-piracy measure by just video taping the movie from a screen to get around the digital signature. With the video DNA, footage would be analyzed in grids to see what visual elements are there, and the shots would get a unique DNA code. The system can scan websites and discs for the code, even if the colors or footage have been changed, modified, or altered.

source: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2010/12/vid...-from-playing/

great academic exercise, some graduate student or professor will probably get some quick fame out of it...
but chances of it working in practice are zero...

Cinavia seems to be working, it's an audio overlay.

there is bound to be technology that will work well enough.. because there is a market for it imo.

i havent looked into it myself, but i find it amazing that producers / owners of content havent been doing this for the past few years...

the software to uniqueid a video cant be that expensive... or hard to have the coder implement... and at least ud know who put up that damn torrent ;)

True and well said.

I mean, the MPAA and YouTube must just be lazy or stupid.

Great news for some, bad for most.

Such a system requires a player that honors the DNA bits, and refuses to play the video. All you need is any computer video player designed over the last 20 years that is ignorant of the invention, and you're good to go.

Video is not a complicated thing to decode from a file. It's just a series of still pictures. The FFmpeg project proves it's quite possible to reverse-engineer most any video format out there and produce a wholly independent video player.

Agreed. I think in our industry it makes more sense to go after the publisher and follow the money trail and eliminate the incentive. At this stage it's more of a social problem than a technological problem. It's better to attack the problem then socially as opposed to attempting to solely use technology. Go after the thieves, particularly those who knowingly profit from it first.

Compare it to the mother who wants to put in place some kind of parental block to prevent her 13 year old son from watching porn and being "damaged" by it. Technology itself isn't really the best way to solve the problem and it's unlikely to be effective anyway.

they need way more details. how does that stop "joe" from camcordering a movie and sharing it on torrents, the software has to be running between me, my player or me and the torrent. If the goal was to monitor torrents for movies , they could simply search for them, nobody would buy a player that blocks everything

Where there is a will there is a way. For every locking device made a pick can be invented

unfortuately, When they .RAR the files that will take care of this "Solution".

There was something very similar developed a few years back and it was defeated within a few days.

That's why you see these torrent sites breaking up the files in RAR lately.