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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
That is very nice. Even if I do not run a paysite myself now, I was asking about something like this earlier, also the "invisible fingerprint", and content protection is obvious market these days, when producing something new. I mean, who wouldn't pay some few bucks for protection if they can gain hundred or thousands times from it?
You should market it, and I will surely forward it if you do 
The only problem I see, is if someone get their member account hacked, or "pretend" it is hacked. But the IP part could do the trick, together with properly tracking software. At least limit it, and make paying members think twice before they upload to rapidshare or whereever they share. |
Well, initial protection should start from the server level. Meaning that every paysite should have some sort of login protection to prevent password sharing/stealing. We're currently using Password Sentry on our main site, and it works rather well. This alone will help any case that goes to court by having a 2 way, and possibly 3 way comparison. 2 Way comparison would be IP on the content + IP recorded in the login record. 3 way would be those 2 + the IP of the person in question obtained from their ISP (if that's possible).
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Originally Posted by Kinky John
clever concept, although once any particular batch of watermarked member content
subsequently becomes viralised by others, it becomes tough to point any fingers,
so good for working out the initial source of the "leak", but after that.. unsure..
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As previously stated, if you can stop it at the source then you can pretty much stop the rest of the train. Major points noted in my reply to the quote above.
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Originally Posted by Nautilus
I wonder is it possible to have MAC address added to the watermark?
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I will look into this.
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Originally Posted by Boobgirl
Of course, it doesn't take much for someone to crop out the text. Affiliates are doing it, why wouldn't customers?
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The visible watermark serves no more purpose than to warn them. If they want to crop, so be it. This is where the invisible (digital) print comes in, which can be placed anywhere in the image; you'd place this one somewhere where it can't be removed.
An additional note: I'm running into some probs with stamping videos without having to re-encode. While re-encoding via tools like ffmpeg is relatively fast (less than 5 minutes encoding time for a 30 minute video), the resource usage is simply too high. I'll keep looking for solutions to this though. One possible solution would be to have a download queue, though I dunno how that would work out to be honest. I'll keep you updated on my findings.
Thanks for showing interest in this concept. While it's not original, I don't see it being used widely just yet so figured I'd step in and try to produce something. I wonder how long it takes for someone to "copy" this and if they'll beat me to the punch on a complete product haha.