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RE: Picture piracy on lego.com
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lugnet.publish
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Tue, 5 Sep 2000 03:23:55 GMT
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Sorry if this sounds harsh--it isn't meant to be.
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Adam Myers writes:
> A few relativly simple ideas concerning picture piracy.
> A) Why not make lcad bricks that are not removable so that models could
> contain permanent initials of the author. this could also be
> done by making dat files so that they are read only. this would
> definately be something for Karim Nassar and anyone else on the artemis
> project to look into
One of the great thing about the DAT file format is that it's plain text.
How can you make part of a text file unremovable? Secondly, lego.com never
deals with DAT files, so this would solve no problems there.
> B) As for the field of photography making sure that images remain
> virgin becomes a much harder prospect. one solution would possibly
> be to create watermarks and register theseunder a central source. these
> digital watermarks would have to be small enough that they would only be
> noticeable by someone who would be informed of their location. So we're
> talking a size of maybe 5x5 pixels. how well these would remain hidden
> would be entirely up to the image's author. agood way to go about this
> might be to put a dk. gray watermark into a black area of the picture
> (you can decide on any alike colors which you would find suitable).
There are digital watermarking programs that create an invisible watermark
across the whole image which can be decifered with the same program. I'm
not sure how well these work when lossy compression is involved, though.
Seems to me, however, that the problem with pirated images is not that
people are having difficulty proving what is there own work. The problem is
that other individuals (in recent cases, lego.com) refuse to act quickly in
removing stolen images. There is no way that lego.com would ever check
every image they receive for watermarks to make sure that the person
submitting the image owns the watermark, especially since lego.com would
have no way of knowing which screenname matched which mark...
--Bram
Bram Lambrecht
BXL34@po.cwru.edu
http://home.cwru.edu/~bxl34/
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| "Bram Lambrecht" <BXL34@po.cwru.edu> wrote in message news:MABBIBJJFOJIOHD...wru.edu... (...) never (...) Yeah. But if Artemis ever does become a reality - the new file format could be encoded and a 'parts author status' could be granted and (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | Re: Picture piracy on lego.com
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| well youll probably be shocked but let me thank you. It was just a thought to throw into the arena. Please realize that my technical knowledge exists in the realm of litle to none in technical formatting matters. There is no easy solution to this if (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| A few relativly simple ideas concerning picture piracy. A) Why not make lcad bricks that are not removable so that models could contain permanent initials of the author. this could also be done by making dat files so that they are read only. this (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish)
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