Piracy is wrong. There is no justification or desperate rationalizing that doesn’t make you look unethical. But my biggest issue with it is why anyone would want to ruin their movie experience trolling the internet looking for some blurry copy with shitty sound just to say you saw it first?
Well at least Japan is trying to make a technology that will be invisible to to the human eye, but crippling to video cameras, in hopes of eliminating the use of cameras to capture bootleg movies in their theaters.
Get the Big Picture reports:
Japan is trying to fight piracy at the source. Its National Institute of Informatics is working with Sharp to develop a new infrared technology that would render camcorder footage shot in theaters basically worthless. Though human eyes can’t detect the system working, infrared light pulses would pass through tiny holes in the screen at a rate of about ten per second. The resulting footage would be too blurry to watch, according to Wired, and since it would be a continuous pulse, it would theoretically cut down on illegal copies of movies made available…at least in Japan.
I imagine if this tech is successful in Japan that other markets will be adopting it pretty quick as well.
This does nothing to address the DVD rips that are floating around, but it is a step in the right direction.
