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Robust watermarking offers hope against digital piracy

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 05, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Watermarks have been used for centuries to prove the authenticity of bank notes, postage stamps and documents. Now European researchers are considering them as a new tool in the fight against digital piracy ...





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Audio Watermarking Technique Could Locate Movie Pirates

Technology / Hi Tech

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 1.6 / 5 (9) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- Camcorder piracy - which occurs when moviegoers bring a camcorder into a theater to record a movie from the screen - is a rapidly growing illegal activity. In the US, camcorder piracy has ...


Safer, better, faster: addressing cryptography’s big challenges

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every time you use a credit card, access your bank account online or send secure email cryptography comes into play. But as computers become more powerful, network speeds increase and data storage grows, ...


Scuppering pirates improves internet audio

Technology / Software

created Aug 09, 2007 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new digital watermarking system not only protects music and media files from online pirates but also ensures that the quality for legitimate users is as good as it gets.


ACID Scans Web for Pirated Multimedia

Technology / Internet

created Apr 05, 2007 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (19) | comments 0

The Virage division of Autonomy has developed search technology that can scan the Web for pirated video and multimedia clips.


Scientists develop algorithm for ultra-secret security technique

Scientists develop algorithm for ultra-secret security technique

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 13, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (70) | comments 0

To achieve a high capacity security system that is exceedingly robust to attacks, scientists have developed a set of instructions to unlock secret information, avoiding the need for embedding images and the ...


Digital camera 'fingerprinting' developed

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created Apr 19, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Child pornographers will soon have a harder time escaping prosecution thanks to a stunning new technology in development at Binghamton University, State University of New York, that can reliably link digital images to the ...


It’s not just a game, dude

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created Mar 06, 2006 | popularity 2.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

The video game industry lost more than $1.8 billion to global piracy through illegal copying, counterfeiting, and distributing in 2004. In latest issue of IBM Systems Journal researchers present two novel approaches for game ...


Making video easier to search and find

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created Apr 19, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Imagine a computer system that can automatically search through videos of football matches and pull out all the shots on goal or all the fouls. Creating the elements that make such a system possible is a key result from the ...


Encryption, data hiding and watermarking

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created Dec 06, 2004 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Terrorists might use it to mask their messages: it's called data hiding - the subject of a new book by Ali Akansu, PhD, professor of electrical and computer engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Akansu's boo ...


Fujitsu Develops World's First Technology That Embeds Data Invisibly in Print Images

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created Jun 30, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of the world's first technology that embeds 12-digit numerical data(1) in printed color images in a way invisible to the human eye. This new technology makes it pos ...



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