NEC claims it can nail camcorder copies

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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/39396

Japan’s NEC says it’s come up with a new technology “capable of accurately detecting the illegal copies of video contents or their altered versions uploaded to the internet in just a few seconds”.

Apparently “it can manage to do so by generating a compact signature or fingerprint of 76 bytes of size per frame of the original content and comparing them with the video content on the internet”, says Akihabara News.

“That means, for instance, any screener or camcorder movie copies will be detected by either the producers or service providers fast and easy”, says the story.

According to NEC, “the technology succeeded %96 of detection rate with low false alarm rate of 5ppm (5 in one million) during the tests conducted by international standardization organization (ISO)”, says the story, adding:

“And the technology is already accepted as part of the MPEG-7 standard.”

The auld grey heads who run the corporate entertainment cartels will be having wet dreams.

But maybe not.

Many, if not most, screeners, working copies and other closely held materials end up online only after they’ve been posted there by Hollywood insiders.

Hmmmm. Could be tricky.

If it's so good I'm surprised they made the information public.