Mpeg 7 To Include Per-Frame Content Identification 273
An anonymous reader writes "NEC has announced that its video content identification technology has been incorporated in the upcoming Mpeg 7 video standard, allowing for each video frame to have its own signature, meaning that even minute changes to the file such as adding subtitles, watermarks or dogtags, and of course cutting out adverts, will alter the overall signature of the video. According to NEC this will allow the owners of the video to automatically 'detect illegal copies' and 'prevent illegal upload of video content' without their consent. NEC also claims that its technology will do away with the current manual checking by members of the movie industry and ISPs to spot dodgy videos."
modest proposal (Score:5, Funny)
I think we should mandate legislatively that all video created should use this technology from now on. TV shows, documentaries, big hit movies, home movies, birthday parties, independent films, security cameras, everything. This way, we can clearly establish ownership of video content in all cases. Anyone who has digital video not maked per frame with ownership should be prosecuted immediately.
Furthermore, we should mandate that all hardware created in the future, including TVs and cable boxes, computers and everything capable of reading video - all of it should only be able to play video with the new "who owns this frame" technology - otherwise, people might play video that doesn't belong to them.
And we should include vetting of licensing terms into the hardware system; so that only with the correct license can the hardware play back the video in question.
And we should impose fully automated reporting systems in hardware that detects and reports tampering to the local authorities. Open up that computer case and put in a non-approved, black market video driver: the machine sends and email to law enforcement. Connect a pirate cable box to your TV, and then your TV immediately stops working, and broadcasts a wireless signal that only law enforcement can detect.
I think this technology for copyright enforcement should be placed into prosthetics that sits inside the eyeballs of everyone who wants permission to view video. These prosthetic devices could similarly verify the authenticity of videos frame by frame, check for an approved license, and send out signals to law enforcement if pirated video is detected. Approved prosthetics should be compulsory to obtaining permission to view all videos.
Finally, we should up the penalties for copyright infringement, to instant death - basically we should have our eyeball prosthetics simply explode when unverified video is detected. /s
First of all.... (Score:5, Funny)
Where the fuck did MPEG 7 come from? I refuse to accept that I, sitting here in front of my 4 screens with a laser mouse, grazing the internet for Roomba cat videos, have never heard of such a thing.
And next, MPEG is in the anti-piracy business now? What the fuck?
Hmmm only 2 expletives up there, good things come in threes. Fuck.
Re:modest proposal (Score:4, Funny)
And bring back the Clipper Chip!
Re:modest proposal (Score:2, Funny)
Of course, Apple will offer their 'Doing Apple' to give us all some choice - but at the same time will sue anyone trying to 'Do Nothing' or 'Do Something' and not 'Doing Apple'...
Not to mention all the early adopters of the first-gen iDo are gonna get screwed when the new one comes out next year
Re:First of all.... (Score:3, Funny)
Dude, you don't even want to know how much your mind is going to be blown when you find out that there is an MPEG-21 already. Yeah, really.
Re:"You just KEEP missing the target!" (Score:5, Funny)
What it does do is try to provide a frame-by-frame signature of video, so if a video's been ripped, they know which copy it was.
Until, of course, those in part 2 and 3 above start detecting and scrubbing that data.
At least the screeners we download will no longer need to have a modest portion of the image blurred to cover the serial numbers previously used to determine where the video came from.
So actually, they may be doing the downloaders a favor.
Re:modest proposal (Score:5, Funny)
iDo
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Re:modest proposal (Score:2, Funny)
In future Soviet Russia, Apple is doing YOU!
Re:First of all.... (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, the friendly folks over at Red Vs. Blue did a public service anouncement about this a few years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvNeHthx3Ng [youtube.com]
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch some MP48's on my HHD DVVDD BVD player.
Re:The linked article links nowhere. (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, of course they are farming unsuspecting visitors [zweistein.cz] is long time /. tradition. Not that it really works.
Re:modest proposal (Score:5, Funny)
OMG, you must watch kiddie porn!! Witch! Witch! Burn it!!
Re:modest proposal (Score:1, Funny)
Direct eyeball framebuffer access? Hell yeah - finally we have full 3D! Where do I sign up?
Re:The opposite effect? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:First of all.... (Score:5, Funny)
So please, don't blame the kind people a MPEG for MPEG-LA. Blame MPEG-LA themselves, http://mpegla.com/ [mpegla.com]
It's that blasted media franchising culture again, isn't it! CSI, great. CIS-Miami, wall to wall sunglass gestures. CSI NY, ghastly. MPEG, lovely. MPEG-LA, rubbish. And you just know the next one's going to be MPEG-Hawaii or something equally horrible.
Re:modest proposal (Score:5, Funny)
Who modded you insightful instead of funny is beyond me :)
Re:modest proposal (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:modest proposal (Score:3, Funny)
Re:First of all.... (Score:3, Funny)
I think you meant Hawaii MPEG 5.0
Re:modest proposal (Score:3, Funny)
Oh and by the way, they are not commercials. The Coming Attractions features are public service announcements regarding future purchase opportunities, and no, the FF button will not skip them. We went through a great deal of trouble to put them on the DVD, so we flagged them as unskippable.