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urbanlegend
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'Subversive' DVD Code
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Did they give a thought to VideoSound when they dreamt this up?
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very interesting! Hope this do work...

but then again "chors or whatever they are who gets it without paying for it" will always find a way.
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:laugh: A joke of system which like many other ‘anti piracy’ measures is as much hypocritical and hyperbole as it gets. And how ironic that it’s developed by Codemasters, the same company that made its name from a device that broke protection codes from other gaming systems (any body remember the Game Genie? ).

Security is big money these days and this Fade system is just another money spinner under the disguise of the ‘anti-piracy’ band wagon. The game the article refers to, Operation Flashpoint, was cracked weeks before the official release at retail in 2001 (yes this Fade crap is that old) and any releases after that were also cracked... before they even hit retail shops :bash:

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I guess since movie makers are getting desperate to stop piracy these companies are coming out with ways they make money by offering various (stupid) methods.....
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Watermark - Another Method Of DVD Copy Protection

What some guy said about the above:

The watermark's made for tracking. It's a digital watermark so a copy will contain that fingerprint. Allows them to track down from which original a copy was made from. That's how they busted the guy who put a copy of The Hulk on the web (different type of watermark). It's mainly targeted towards online pirates.

If it's digital, then it'd be extremely difficult to stop pirates anyways.

Quoted from: DVD Shrink Forum
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UL watermarking is as simple as what you have stated above, and it can be actually make ur disc go bonkers if its a pirate!. I will explain it in layman's terms. I will exploit the redundancies in a picture and store some unique data in it. This will be invisible to the user if its a genuine product. It all boils down to uniquely tagging each and every Disc out there.. So for example we both may have the same film on dvd, but urs will have a different code and mine will be different.
Now during playback, every frame will consist of a watermark. The watermarks that are generated MUST require the disc code to function.. i.e its like a mating process. As that code is a hardware factor (unique ID), if I happen to copy ur disc onto mine, It wont play, as the key component required for gereating the watermarks will be absent !
This is the current state of the art research work that is going on.
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