Re: [APML] OT: Photoshop CS censorship

["Taras R. Hnatyshyn" <tarashnat@earthlink.net>]

Guys,

Currency is not the only thing that is illegal to photograph at certain
reproduction scales. This also includes seals/logos of government 
agencies
and postage stamps. For the most part, close to 1:1 reproduction is 
illegal,
I don't recall how far from 1:1 you need to be to be legal, but a super
blow-up of an area isn't illegal, neither is currencies, logos/seals, 
and/
or stamps caught incidentally in a photo of another subject, for 
example,
a presidential press conference with the presidential seal all over the
place.

Taras

On Jan 11, 2004, at 3:54 PM, Dale Ireland wrote:

> Thank you Bobby!
> There are a large number of ways PS CS identifies currency. The 
> technology
> has been developed over many years in conjunction with the new currency
> designs. It isn't a Bush "plot"
> Just a couple of the ways are various forms and patterns now being
> incorporated into the designs. Such as
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/eurion.pdf
> And apparently CS will not open this interesting image it identifies as
> currency
> http://jyrikup.tripod.com/pics/new.png
> Although I haven't tried it and I could only download it as a BMP
>
> Technolocical crimes require a technological solution. What is so hard 
> to
> understand about that?
> When it gets to the point where any ten year old can go down to Kinkos 
> and
> copy a few $20's we have a problem.. and you don't need special paper 
> to
> make a passable $20. All these technologies can certainly be hacked
> and cracked and they will not stop the sophiscticated counterfeiter. 
> They
> have become necessary because the counterfeiting problem has evolved 
> from
> the 100 sophisticated printers who each make 1000 $20's to the 10,000
> crackheads who make 10 $20's at Kinkos. The CS Central Bank technology 
> is
> aimed at the low-tech jerks who are causing the new problem.
> As far as nude photos, there has been software out there for years that
> detects nude photos as easily as keywords in e-mails. Detecting nude 
> photos
> is easy, a few form factors and a certain percentage cutoff level for 
> the
> RGB values for flesh.
>
>
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