New DVD watermark has pirates in its sights

[Eazy]

Hollywood has unveiled a powerful new technology which it hopes will help kill the pirating of movies. The system relies on sound – not vision – and was unveiled at a conference held by the international DVD Forum in Paris, France last week.

All HD-DVD players will have a sensor that looks for inaudible watermarks in the soundtrack of movies. The watermarks will be included in the soundtracks of all major movies released to cinemas.

If a DVD player detects the telltale code, the disc must be an illegal copy made by copying a film print to video, or pointing a camcorder and microphone at a cinema screen. So the player refuses to play the disc.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8247&feedId=online-news_rss20

[Rave]

and then there is gonna be a mod chip or whatever thats gonna be out that is gonna counter this,

price the damn things right and piracy wud reduce, all this fancy measures wud justmake the already costly DVDs and HDVDs cost a mint…

[Quad_Master]

@Rave

and then there is gonna be a mod chip or whatever thats gonna be out that is gonna counter this,

price the damn things right and piracy wud reduce, all this fancy measures wud justmake the already costly DVDs and HDVDs cost a mint…

When i saw this thread , only one word came to my mind “MODCHIP”

Also why do they overprice the DVD’s donno if they wud charge properly
priacy will be automatically killed.

[Wraith]

and then there is gonna be a mod chip or whatever thats gonna be out that is gonna counter this,

price the damn things right and piracy wud reduce, all this fancy measures wud justmake the already costly DVDs and HDVDs cost a mint…

Couldnt agree with you more!!