Re: Those red "anti-piracy" dots are ANNOYING!

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 "Tweek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> :      What do those dots *do*, anyway? What's the point of them? I
> : noticed them in "Kill Bill" since I'd read about them in this newsgroup,
> : but I still don't know why they're even there.
> 
> I think they will allow studios to examine pirated versions of their movies
> to determine in which region or subset of theatres the pirate video was
> filmed. ie; there are variations in the red dots on different prints of a
> movie, which allow the studios to somehow narrow down the theatres in which
> piracy takes place by enforcing policy or refusing to distribute at
> locations found to have piracy going on.
> 
> 

After which the theaters in question will have to start frisking people 
as they come in, whereupon people will stop going to those theaters. I 
don't think this will last long.