Fight Piracy by silencing part of a movie ?

Posted by Martin in Music Industry, Music and Video  Tags: , , ,

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May


Paramount apparently decided that it would be a great idea to deter and track piracy by silencing random parts of the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This seems to be a sort of watermarking technique to be able to identify the cinema the copy of the movie was made.. if the guys who copy the movie are stupid enough to use the same sound source.

This is another classic case where the industry is punishing their legit customers and not the ones who copy and download the media. It’s the same case with copy protections and DRM. The only ones who have to cope with those things are the customers who purchase the products, never heard of any copy protections or DRM in movies, games or music that were available in P2P networks.

The commenters at Boing-Boing write about 3-6 random sound drops for a few seconds. Now that would really make me angry and I would definitely ask for a refund on my way out. What’s their next ingenious move, blank out a few scenes ? The cinemas themselves do not seem to have a say in the matter.

I would bet that the movie that is available on P2P networks does not have those sound gaps. Wanna bet ?

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Geoff says, May 28th, 2008   

It doesn’t, one of the many decisions made around this movie that were idiotic.

Angelo R. says, May 29th, 2008   

Already I’ve seen a version of this where random portions of a dvd (Alien vs. Predator Requiem) have been suddenly turned to black and white. It really did bother me. What made it worse was the fact that I rented it from my local blockbuster (yes I still rent movies if I really want to see them). I took it back and complained about it, apparently it was a “anti-copy” feature so that those who ripped the dvd would get random black and white frames. These lasted a couple minutes.

Once I got home of course, I downloaded a version of it. It was essentially perfect, without the black and white scenes. The only problem was the resolution, which I can live with since I watched it on my laptop.

Wokkel says, May 29th, 2008   

A lot of crap movies are shown in cinema’s today.
It would be better to make good movies that are worthwild to look at in cinema’s
They’re pushing cinema’s to use illegal copies themselves…

coco says, May 29th, 2008   

i tink there is no use. ripper have their way to get around easily.

prs says, May 29th, 2008   

Bad move…only reason people are still going to the movies is because of the quality and experience. When you mess up the sound or something, that ruins the experience…If this really goes down, forget paying for movies.

I’ll stick to p2p/scene which offers better quality for free.

darkkosmos says, May 29th, 2008   

It’s very crude but I guess it works if your in front a PC with the sound cutting every second :)

Angelo R. says, May 29th, 2008   

@darkkosmos although, if you’ve donwloaded the movie, chances are you don’t really care too much about if it’s really high quality or not.

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