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Old 09-21-2013, 02:24 PM  
ilnjscb
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I'd say this is somewhat of an outrun the bear issue - "I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you." Pirates are looking for the easiest way to do what they do. They apply economics. If you make it harder for them it does produce an effect. Sure, like rats, they might figure out a way around it, but just like password crackers they look for the easy win. There are 3 million web sites. They won't all be protected.

There is enough experience right here on this board to design a 99% solution.

I am not saying the tubes will go away or even that they need to. Perhaps a model that uses the revealed power of the tubes to aggregate and drive traffic while protecting super high value scenes from piracy. Perhaps tubes might come to the table if they thought they needed to. Instead of a scene package going 400 stills one trailer and 20 minutes, it might now go 100 stills, one trailer, one "off angle" tube clip and one blockbuster.

What we've put down so far is

separate streams
variable bitrate and framerate
opt in commentary
unique coding
unique visible tagging
watermarking
possible wrapper executable with timeout
unbreakable zips on site, hot extracted for stream
member hash read, ip log, card log, industry database, de-personalized?
free friendly-tube copy is of better quality than VCR or logger would be
random stops or skips (no user watches all the way through from start to finish, or very few do)

These are all currently attested in various applications, i.e. none of them are impossible.
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