Camcorder Piracy- RFID based Anti-Piracy Screen

Film theft has such a profound impact on a wide range of economy that it is a crime in almost all countries. One major source of the movie piracy is camcorder piracy i.e., movies are recorded by portable devices inside theatres or any screening system and then sold on internet and grey markets. Different techniques and strategies are explored to overcome the problem and secure the digital cinema content, some are based on spatiotemporal modulation of light, watermarking techniques, maximizing annoyance and temporal effects. This paper deals with a projection technique to avoid piracy in movie theatres. We aim to defeat camcorder piracy by severely degrading the visual quality of the recorded movie while making the interference signals invisible to the audience. Infrared emitters are installed in movie theatres to interfere with the camcorder and create glares in the recorded frames. And also even if the degraded video is uploaded to the internet for audio purpose the person who recorded the movie can be tracked using a person identification system. Since piracy is against the law this creates an awareness among the once who try to pirate the video.