Fingerprinting pirates at the movies

[Bruce Nunnally]

U. ILLINOIS—Most moviegoers catch the previews but miss the invisible “feature” playing on screen—an anti-piracy digital fingerprint that stamps the individual theater showing the motion picture.

Digital fingerprinting “actually is used a lot in movie theaters,” says Pierre Moulin, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Beckman Institute and the Information Trust Institute at the University of Illinois. “You can’t see it, you just see the movie and you don’t even know it has a fingerprint.”

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