CleanFlicks "Fingerprint Technology"

[frankmaster100]

I don't know if any of you have heard of CleanFlicks, they're a company that sells and rents edited videos. Well they mention in their terms and conditions about a "Fingerprint Technology." The link is https://www.cleanflicks.com/terms.html, and here is the quote:

The Company has acquired certain "fingerprint technology" which allows them to identify each Company product. This allows the Company to easily identify whether or not any Company product has been illegally copied.

Have any of you heard of this technology? I'm only curious as to how it works and stuff. I've Google'd it, and couldn't find much.

And PLEASE, just because I mentioned CleanFlicks, don't feel like you need to start this into a thread about copyright infringment, and leaving movies the way they are, and infringing on the artist's masterpiece and all that crap. I've heard it, and it's been beat dead.

[celtic_druid]

Only in Utah...

Basically just the same thing as a watermark.

[guns1inger]

It'll only be dead when people stop doing it . . . .

It's an invisible code embedded in the mpeg2 encoding that will, they hope, survive the transcoding or re-encoding process so they can trace copies made from their source. It's old tech, and of dubious value, but the threat of it's existance might scare some people. I do find it curious that a company whose main clientel are either christian or very cleaning living people should be so concerned that these same people would be ripping them off by copying their material. Says a lot about trust.

[celtic_druid]

Mostly for Mormon's I think.

Does that count as a religion? If so then discussing it would be against the rules.