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Looks like the new Beetlejuice movie was released as a telesync. I thought they were a thing of the past!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Read about those DCP drives! Maybe cammers are just burning theaters one by one and careful not to return for a long time if ever.

A theater operator doing the recording would be wildly risky it seems unless watermarking has been defeated. Visual and audio watermarking perhaps.

Seems like they’re very comfortable with applying watermarks at least for those betting sites!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It occurs to me that adding a visual watermark might actually serve to obscure a visual watermarking scheme that is otherwise invisible by providing data that scrambles or breaks the watermark decoder itself.

Audio watermarks can be distorted in any number of ways; and it could be that some of the wildly poor audio quality in most cam-rips is probably the only way you can defeat the watermark; by using a LQ microphone and encoding the audio to a very limited bitrate and then re-upsampling; to defeat any subtle alterations a digital watermark might make to the audio waveform.