Camcording Pirates versus Infra-red
p2pnet news view | P2P | Mo vies:- Every year Hollywood releases staggering, mind-bending reports showing profits even higher than those of the year before.
At the same time its mouthpiece, the MPAA, claims people with camcorders of the kind made and energetically marketed by Sony, one of the major Hollywood movie studios, are destroying the industry, bringing it to ruin and forcing thousands of support workers onto the streets.
The copies appear online, it says.
But apart from failing to mention movies posted online nonetheless break cinema attendance and revenue records over and over again, Hollywood also conveniently neglects to point out many, if not most, of the movies which show up on P2P filesharing networks arrive there thanks to Hollywood insiders.
The continuing trend was first detailed by AT&T labs almost exactly six years ago in Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in the Movie Production and Distribution Process.
It said of a total of 285 movies researchers sampled on the P2P networks, 77% were leaked by industry ‘insiders’.
But the studios would have you believe camcording crooks are the villains in the piece and that being so, their nefarious attempts to purloin Hollywood product must be thwarted!
Enter “flashing pulses of infra-red (IR) light”.
Japan’s National Institute of Informatics, in co-operation with Sharp, is using the flashes, “to render any recording unwatchable” by projecting them from behind the cinema screen,”says Far East Gizmos.
The pulses, “pass through tiny holes in the screen originally designed to allow through sound, and cause interference to any video cameras held by members of the audience,” it says, going on:
“The IR light, while invisible to human eyes, is also impossible to filter out without rendering the recording too blurry to watch. The team says best results are achieved at a speed of 10 pulses per second.”
Now you know. 
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
September, 2009
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September 23rd, 2009 at 11:56 am
Cams are generally too blurry to watch anyway…
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:01 pm
That sounds pretty effective. Is there no such thing as a filter that will stop only infrared light?
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Great these are the light waves produced by an OVEN. We’re being COOKED in the cinema we paid to have access to, there’s no way I’m ever gonna go there again.
Anyways infra-red filters do exist. Usually the oven glasses are actually infra-red filters. The cost is pretty low.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
40$ canadian here :
http://stores.shop.cafr.ebay.ca/infrared-filter-home__W0QQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_ipgZQQ_sasiZ1
but it won’t block infra-red for your whole body, just the camera so watch out!
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:56 pm
IR sources are still visable even when IR filters are used.
The difference is you just end up seeing the area of the light source instead of the light source drowning out the entire image completely.
So this idea would work given enough IR emitters covering the screen.
The goal is to not drown out the camcorder image sensor, but to make the movie screen so spotty that its no longer “good enough” to camcord anymore.
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:20 pm
I never believe that anyone really watch movies on a cam. This is a propaganda tool used by the corporation of parasites.
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:23 pm
That sounds pretty effective. Is there no such thing as a filter that will stop only infrared light?
I am sure there is and the claim that this will make the image more blury than it is already is bogus.
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Cam copies are indeed a worthless waste of bandwidth and I really wish the scene would stop releasing them.
Of course then it would only be a matter of time before the MPAA goes on to blame something else while still ignoring the source of insider releases.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Anyways good TS are usually available, filmed in great conditions, certainly without the infra red thing turned on, and probably filmed by the actual cinema managers.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Wait, does anyone even watch cams? How could anyone put up with the poor image quality and sound?
Go ahead and install IR lights. Nobody fucking cares.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:27 pm
The only good thing about cams is the way they consistently shame the industry when, despite their best attempts, cam versions of every single major release appear online immediately.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:42 pm
In a move that could eventually be copied by all discerning billionaires, Abramovich has installed an anti-paparazzi shield on his newest vessel, the world’s biggest and most expensive private yacht.
The high-tech system on Eclipse, a mega-yacht measuring up to 557ft, relies on lasers to block any digital camera lenses nearby
Infrared lasers detect the electronic light sensors in nearby cameras, known as charge-coupled devices. When the system detects such a device, it fires a focused beam of light at the camera, disrupting its ability to record a digital image.
The beams can also be activated manually by security guards if they spot a photographer loitering.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6841380.ece
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:43 pm
PirateEye watches over cinemas
http://www.geek.com/articles/news/pirateeye-watches-over-cinemas-20041112/
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Cams suck and always have. If IR gets rid of cams then I’d say it’s a good thing for everyone, especially if it creates a greater demand for high quality rips.
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:10 pm
So, all the pirates have to do is invent and use cameras that, like the human eye, can’t see infrared rays.
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:53 pm
No problems at all… there’s always Screeners from Hollywood insiders.
September 24th, 2009 at 10:36 am
” No problems at all… there’s always Screeners from Hollywood insiders. ”
Yup, this.
An inconvenient fact ignored by all who can do something about it.
Hollywood WANTS those movies to hit the net, only they want
to be sure they control when it’s to happen.
September 24th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
“The goal is to not drown out the camcorder image sensor, but to make the movie screen so spotty that its no longer “good enough” to camcord anymore.”
The screen in a theater is already not good enought to camecord anymore without the infrared thingy. So what the point?