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3D Movies Not Easy To Pirate
Posted by Natalie Sit on February 9th, 2010 1 comment
If you’re looking to buy a 3D TV, your credit card will be hurting. The TV, plus the four pairs of glasses, is not going to be cheap. So to watch something on your TV (if you’re not subscribing to DirecTV’s 3D offerings) you wouldn’t be blamed for seeking out something cheaper… perhaps even free.But 3D content on torrent sites is not easy to find. Sure, when 3D TVs hit the market this year, demand for pirated 3D content is going to grow; it just won’t be easy for media pirates to get that content.
Traditional movie pirating has occurred in two ways: cameras in the theatre and copies of DVD screeners. If you’ve been to a 3D movie lately, you’ll know why the camera method will no longer work: 3D movies are projected in two polarized wavelengths. The glasses moviegoers wear separate the light for each eye and the brain recombines the separate images into a 3D one.
The DVD-ripping method will probably net the best results for pirates. Of course, in this cat-and-mouse game, the studios will try to protect their content with extra security.
“Pirates are pirates,” says Michael Peyser, a University of Southern California (USC) professor of production and executive producer of 2007′s U2 3D. “They will figure out a way of copying it.”
[via MSNBC]
Comment on this!One response to “3D Movies Not Easy To Pirate”
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Actually it’s not that hard to pirate 3D movies.
Firstly if you just want them in 2D, just put one of the glasses lenses over the camera lenses (might be handy to purchase larger polarized lenses of the same wavelength).
You can even pirate them in 3D, you do it with 2 cameras at a smallish distance apart (or one of those 3D cameras with 2 lenses).
Of course cam quality sucks, and I don’t think there is any scene rules for 3D rips yet.
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