# Department of Paranoia, second division... **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [November 3, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/department-of-paranoia-second-division/43055 "2010-11-03T20:43:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tacitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@tacitus](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/tacitus)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/department-of-paranoia-second-division/43055/1 "2010-11-03T20:43:53Z")
this is soooo weird… [Anti-piracy tool will harvest and market your emotions - Computerworld Blogs](http://blogs.computerworld.com/17276/anti_piracy_tool_will_harvest_market_your_emotions) The movie industry is in search of new ways to protect their movies from camcorder pirates and piracy in general. Security company [Aralia Systems](http://www.araliasystems.com/) specializes in piracy tracking devices. **Part of its intelligent surveillance include CCTV cameras and anti-camcorder systems that shine infrared light beams into a movie-watching audience. Those light beams reflect off camcorders and then trigger piracy alarms.** After being awarded a grant, Aralia Systems teamed up with [Machine Vision Lab](http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/research/groups/mvl/index.shtml) in what seems like a massive invasion of your privacy beyond “in the name of security.” Building on existing cinema anti-piracy technology, these companies plan to add the ability to harvest your emotions. This is the part where it seems that filmgoers should be eligible to charge movie theater owners. At the very least, shouldn’t it result in a significantly discounted movie ticket? Machine Vision Lab’s [Dr Abdul Farooq told PhysOrg](http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-piracy-technology-revolutionise-cinema.html), “We plan to build on the capabilities of current technology used in cinemas to detect criminals making pirate copies of films with video cameras. **We want to devise instruments that will be capable of collecting data that can be used by cinemas to monitor audience reactions to films and adverts and also to gather data about attention and audience movement**. … It is envisaged that once the technology has been fine tuned it could be used by market researchers in all kinds of settings, including monitoring reactions to shop window displays.” ---
**Author:** ![forynav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@forynav](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/forynav)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/department-of-paranoia-second-division/43055/2 "2010-11-03T23:50:51Z")
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**Author:** ![SteveO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@SteveO](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/SteveO)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/department-of-paranoia-second-division/43055/3 "2010-11-04T00:03:39Z")
So they are using anit-piracy technology to pirate emotions? ---
**Author:** ![Razorwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@Razorwire](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Razorwire)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 11:02am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/department-of-paranoia-second-division/43055/4 "2010-11-24T11:02:29Z")
Meh big whoop, With the technology I work with here we could use facial recognition so wanted criminals could never go to the movies and know piraters would be banned. But I don’t like that since all I do out here is watch pirated movies (purchased from local venders for 2 dollars a DVD.)