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2012-11-08 07:32 28918902 Anonymous (BigBrotherBWTV.jpg 271x308 11kB)
>Microsoft has filed a patent application for a Kinect-based system that could be used to monitor the number of people in a room watching a TV with a view to giving content creators accurate viewing figures and a pay-per-user-view model. >The system would use the Kinect camera to check the number of viewers in any room and then prompt the consumer to purchase the appropriate license based on that number. This would mean that you would pay more, for example, for a family of six than if you were watching a piece of content on your own. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-11/07/microsoft-patent-snooping

1 min later 28918926 Anonymous
Looks like they're trying to out botnet google

3 min later 28918951 Anonymous
Fourth. Box.

4 min later 28918970 Anonymous
>watching tv

5 min later 28918989 Anonymous
>>28918970 >MS watching you watching tv

6 min later 28919004 Anonymous
>>28918902 >The system would use the Kinect camera to check the number of viewers in any room and then prompt the consumer to purchase the appropriate license based on that number. lel

7 min later 28919020 Anonymous
>>28918989 >MS watching you watch netflix and making you pay per person

7 min later 28919024 Anonymous
>>28918989 way to quit watching TV, ain`t it?

7 min later 28919027 Anonymous
>>28918902 Just don't fucking buy /thread

7 min later 28919028 (^^ )~ (Tide.jpg 294x378 39kB)
>The limitation placed on the content might simply be a fixed number of users views, a number of user views over a certain time period, a number of simultaneous user views or views tide to user identities >tide to user identities

8 min later 28919034 Anonymous
>>28919004 It also plans to charge you with piracy if you get up and leave the room during advertisements.

8 min later 28919041 Anonymous
>>28919020 >MS watching you masterbate watching pay per view pr0n

9 min later 28919052 (^^ )~
>>28919034 >paid content >advertisement ahahaAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA holy shit payfags are stupid.

9 min later 28919058 Anonymous
>>28918902 >watching TV >pay-per user

10 min later 28919061 Anonymous
>Have one person go up and buy it. >Everyone sits down after the fact.

10 min later 28919075 furi
>just unplug the kinect or cover the lens

12 min later 28919115 Anonymous
Anyone who has a kinect deserves this evil.

13 min later 28919119 Anonymous
Let's not take this article out of context. MS filed a patent for this technology. MS did not implement this technology and MS are not spying on you fapping to porn. MS is merely saying this technology is possible, here is how we would do it, if YOU want to use our kinect for this purpose, you need to get permission from us.

13 min later 28919132 Anonymous
>>28919119 Who the fuck would use this other than MS?

16 min later 28919181 Anonymous
This is almost as bad as that Sony patent where people were prompted to stand up and recite company slogans in order to skip ads.

17 min later 28919197 Anonymous (1352043874242.jpg 320x240 48kB)
>>28919132 >Apple >US Government >China Government List goes on

17 min later 28919201 Anonymous
>>28919119 If you give someone the power to do something, they will do it.

18 min later 28919220 Anonymous (1352043937511.jpg 399x397 26kB)
>>28919201

18 min later 28919223 Anonymous
>>28919075 >Video stops. >"Camera obstructed. Please remove the obstruction to resume playback."

19 min later 28919229 Anonymous
>>28919132 My point is that MS has not said they'd use this. There is way too much legal, financial, and PR repercussions for using this technology without careful analysis. All MS did was reserve the right to use this technology through the patent system, which really doesn't say much about how it will affect the daily lives (including privacy) of your casual xbox kinect user.

19 min later 28919233 Anonymous
>>28919197 What the fuck are you even saying? Chinks don't own that many xboxes and apple fags haet MS. Additionally, the US Gov't doesn't create content that people need to buy licenses for.

19 min later 28919234 Anonymous (1352043841518.jpg 427x640 85kB)
Let the thin foil flow through

20 min later 28919253 Anonymous
>>28919233 >implying the technology cannot use other devices >Do you even /g/?

21 min later 28919288 Anonymous
>>28919229 It shows that they are at least considering it and spend the time and money investing in researching it and filing a patent. >>28919253 Yeah, because Apple is going to make you purchase a piece of Microsoft hardware and hook it up to your apple tv in order to watch your movies.

21 min later 28919296 Anonymous
>>28919119 This is legal and potentially very profitable. Money will be invested in thinking out the best way to roll this out in a way that consumers will accept, and consumers will accept it eagerly. People's living rooms are going to turn into treaty ports.

21 min later 28919298 Anonymous (1331400641170.jpg 500x333 26kB)
>>28919229 >>28919119 Holy shit you sound like a shill.

23 min later 28919325 Anonymous
>>28919288 Call me the day you understand patents

23 min later 28919334 furi
>>28919223 >turn it to point at an empty part of room

23 min later 28919338 Anonymous
>>28919325 Call me the day you understand investments.

23 min later 28919346 Anonymous
I always thought that the year of the linux desktop would begin due to Linux improving. Now it's clear that the year of the Linux desktop will start due to Microsofts megajew shrewdness. Who am I kidding, the general populace will swallow this shit up and praise it.

24 min later 28919348 Anonymous
>>28919334 >no people watching, no playback

24 min later 28919349 Anonymous
>>28919334 >No faces recognized.

25 min later 28919377 Anonymous
>>28919201 That's not true at all, the United States and the USSR (now just regular Russia) had the power to destroy the world many times over with nuclear weapons, but we haven't. MSFT will do a cost-benefit analysis of using this technology, and will come to realize the repercussions in terms of lawsuits, public opinion, and Kinect sales will far outstrip the short-term monetary benefits of using it. The patent is just to hedge their bets - in case some smart company in the future figure out how to use this technology and make money w/out serious financial repercussions, MSFT wants dibs on it (unless it's China, but China already does this so why would they suddenly need to switch to using a kinect). TL;DR: what stops MSFT from using this technology? Cold hard cash

26 min later 28919389 Anonymous
I can't wait until this is combined with Facebook's face database to provide the ultimate in social network integration, adding significant value to a Kinect purchase. Microsoft has been really innovative lately. Apple and Linux shills pls go.

26 min later 28919402 Anonymous
>>28919061 >we're sorry, but it seems our system has detected this content has been licensed to fewer people than are watcher. Please relicense with the currect amount of viewers.

27 min later 28919419 Anonymous
>>28919132 The US and EU governments.

27 min later 28919424 Anonymous (1311204902896.png 256x256 110kB)
>>28919377 >but we haven't >but we haven't >but we haven't >but we haven't >but we haven't Confirmed for disinfo agent.

28 min later 28919436 LEE Forgot His Tripcode
>A group of black people will not be able to watch a film with the lights off because undetectable faces Well thought through, Microshite.

29 min later 28919448 Anonymous
>>28919334 >"No viewer(s) detected. Playback will resume automatically when you return."

29 min later 28919459 Anonymous (1311342257220.jpg 625x750 62kB)
>>28919436

30 min later 28919473 Anonymous
>>28919436 Kinect don't only use facial recognition for this same reason. They use some sort of laser and infrared cameras, also.

30 min later 28919481 Anonymous
>>28919377 >public opinion You're talking about the same public that embraces DRM and the cloud. Microsoft could offer people cheaper rates on face tracking devices, and people would eat it up. Hell, they could even data-mine people's facial expressions and conversations as they watch, sell the data and offer the streaming for free.

33 min later 28919533 Anonymous
>>28919377 >implying they don't use their nuclear weapons to bully other countries around

35 min later 28919563 Anonymous (jewgolds.jpg 1162x850 368kB)
>mfw the goyim allow this to happen so they can get their fix of Hollywood's latest propaganda

36 min later 28919576 Anonymous
>>28919419 Why are you so stupid?

37 min later 28919595 Anonymous
>>28919576 Why are you such of a sheep nationalist?

38 min later 28919614 Anonymous
>>28919595 >gov't going to spend loads of money to spy on kinect users (read: retards)

39 min later 28919629 Anonymous (sony-patent-wii-u-2.jpg 397x435 28kB)
I will now derail this thread with patent drawings.

40 min later 28919643 Anonymous (bestbrandsoda_610.jpg 610x398 40kB)


41 min later 28919652 Apple
>>28918902 So what? If you like it, buy it. If you don't, don't buy it. Vote with your wallet. If people will buy it, that means they like to be controlled. And they do - they already buy devices with DRM.

41 min later 28919659 Anonymous
>>28919614 >gov't going to spend loads of money to spy on telephone users >gov't going to spend loads of money to spy on internet users

41 min later 28919665 Anonymous
>point the kinect camera to a picture or screen of the room with one person in it

41 min later 28919676 Anonymous (rms.jpg 3504x2336 2025kB)
>Microsoft in charge of freedoms

42 min later 28919685 Anonymous (7-3-2012sonytoilet.jpg 760x560 24kB)
Sony is watching you poop. And has it patented.

42 min later 28919688 Anonymous
>>28918902 >This would mean that you would pay more, for example, for a family of six than if you were watching a piece of content on your own. Unauthorized copies of media do not have this problem. Also, fuck you MS

42 min later 28919694 Anonymous (rms6.jpg 750x563 107kB)
>>28919652 And their cattle-like mentality ruins the market for the rest of us.

43 min later 28919701 Anonymous
>>28919659 they only spy on significant persons or use a computer system to scan data scanning visual data provided by the kinect would require orders of magnitude more processing power to scan additionally it would require a metric fuck ton of bandwidth it simply isn't feasible for wide-scale visual spying to occur

43 min later 28919704 Anonymous (30-Sony-Doll.jpg 546x548 40kB)
Shh! No more dreams. Only tears now.

43 min later 28919708 Apple
>>28919665 Kinect has two IR cameras and it reconstructs the 3D shape of objects. And most people have some depth (especially fat consumerists).

44 min later 28919718 Anonymous (504x_SonyMotionPatent.jpg 500x330 20kB)


44 min later 28919721 Anonymous
>>28919708 >point it towards a $20 blow up doll

45 min later 28919747 Anonymous (sony-patent-complete.jpg 848x649 117kB)


46 min later 28919751 Apple
>>28919694 Yes, but what can we do about it? >>28919721 Movement detection. People move. The eyes blink. Also, pirating the movie seems easier.

47 min later 28919765 Anonymous
>>28919132 Apple would totally go for it. Macfags are all sexual deviants who love exhibitionism. It would be a selling point.

47 min later 28919769 Apple
>>28919747 This is beyond silly.

48 min later 28919800 Anonymous
>>28919708 point towards 3DS with picture of one person sitting in the room

50 min later 28919828 Anonymous (BraveNewWorld_FirstEdition.jpg 301x452 55kB)
>mfw I have no face

51 min later 28919853 Anonymous (retart.jpg 259x194 9kB)
>>28918902 You're so fucking retarted it hurts to know people like you are on /g/.

51 min later 28919861 Anonymous
>>28919629 Is that to detect terminators or is it just augmented reality? Please let it be the former.

52 min later 28919872 Apple
>>28919800 3DS doesn't generate 3D objects, only an illusion achieved through parallax. Kinnect (as most 3D scanners) isn't susceptible to this illusion.

53 min later 28919897 Anonymous
>>28919701 >implying it would take massive amounts of computing power to take images of a person every 15 minutes

54 min later 28919913 Anonymous (sonyadverpatentjtjtedut-1345811442.jpg 519x400 35kB)
>>28919769 Silly? Here's scary.

55 min later 28919927 Anonymous
>>28919765 >have you ever felt like you're not exposing your gay lifestyle enough >well now apple will spy on you constantly and every macfag buys one

55 min later 28919928 Anonymous
>>28919913 >murricans

55 min later 28919937 Anonymous (sonyp2siliconera.jpg 550x463 36kB)
Did you know PS2 has a fire extinguisher accessory?

55 min later 28919945 Anonymous
>>28919853 What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

56 min later 28919961 Anonymous
>>28919945 Real funny you faggot bitch. You think this is a joke? You think giving me lip is a good idea? I'll fucking murder you. Yeah making fun of me is so funny... so funny I forgot to laugh. If you want to talk like that to me why don't you come here and say it to me face so I can answer your insults with a swift fist to the nose. Yeah you have a lot to say from hundreds of miles away but I bet if my fists were in reach of your face you would be like a TV on mute with no volume button. So do yourself a favor and keep your mouth shut unless you want to die. Next time you think about saying something like that to me I want you to remember one thing. I know the guy that created Google maps and I can locate you in the time it took me to type this. Don't want any more problems? Didn't think so faggot. You have any idea what gorilla warfare is? I do, I was in the US Marine Core and I perfected it. I'm fully capable of using it on you motherfuckers. Do you know the dander you're in if I find you? I am $100 serious. Bunch of god damn losers here and I will not have it. At least I've had sex, had girlfriends, and gotten laid, and blowjobs galore unlike you virgin piece of unpatriotic SHIT.

56 min later 28919975 Apple
>>28919913 I'm not scarred at all, this is simply funny.

57 min later 28919986 Anonymous
>>28919424 >>28919424 >>28919424 >>28919424 >>28919424 >>28919424 >>28919424 >>28919424 >>28919424 >>28919424

59 min later 28920023 Anonymous (sonypatent1.jpg 623x426 66kB)


59 min later 28920028 Anonymous (1333591588053.jpg 407x482 35kB)
>>28919913 Exploiting the bleating sheep populace for fun and profit. Ba-duh-ba-ba-baaa~ I'm lovin' it!

1 hours later 28920030 Anonymous (interactive-tv-sony-patent.jpg 450x288 17kB)


1 hours later 28920038 Anonymous
>>28919913 I heard Americans clap when coca-cola ads are on tv

1 hours later 28920045 Apple
>>28920005 >interactive tv Um, like, video games? What year is this from?

1 hours later 28920057 Anonymous
>>28920038 >mfw americans call chocolate globbernaughts "candy bars" >mfw americans call motorised rollinghams "cars" >mfw americans call Merry fizzlebombs "fireworks" >mfw americans call genocide 'thanksgiving' >mfw americans call wunderbahboxes a "PC" >mfw americans call call meat water "gravy" >mfw americans call electro-rope "power cables" >mfw americans call beef wellington ensemble with lettuce a burger >mfw americans call fart tornadoes "bar mitzvahs" >mfw americans call Whimsy flimsy mark and scribblers "pens" >mfw americans call twisting plankhandles " >mfw americans call cold on the cob "popsicles" >mfw americans call french toast "pussy bread" >mfw americans call breaddystacks "sandwiches" >mfw americans call their hoighty toighty tippy typers "keyboards" >mfw americans call nutty-gum and fruit spleggings "peanut butter and jelly" >mfw americans call an upsy stairsy the "escalator" >mfw americans call Montezuma's Revenge "water" >mfw americans call forcey fun time "rape" >mfw americans call a knitted wittedy sheepity sleepity a "sweater" >mfw americans call a rickedy-pop a 'gear-shift' >mfw americans call wiggledy piggledy nobbledy wobs "toes" >mfw americans call a choco chip bicky wicky a "cookie" >mfw americans call peepee friction pleasure "sex" >mfw americans calla pip pip gollywock a "screwdriver" >mfw americans call a shoot-go-bang a "gun" >mfw americans call ceiling-bright a "Lightsbulb" >mfw americans call blimpy bounce bouncea a "ball" >mfw americans call a slippery dippery long mover a "snake" >mfw americans call cobblestone-clippity-clops "roads"

1 hours later 28920059 Anonymous (patente-sony1.jpg 685x507 29kB)
Sony patented Slenderwoman

1 hours later 28920069 Anonymous (gorilla_warfare.jpg 468x405 81kB)
>>28919945 >gorilla warfare

1 hours later 28920096 Apple
>>28920057 >mfw americans call peepee friction pleasure "sex" My sides exploded.

1 hours later 28920099 (^^ )~
>>28919701 When there's profit involved it is.

1 hours later 28920103 Anonymous
>>28919872 >place a dancing hula girl toy in front of the camera what now faggot

1 hours later 28920125 Anonymous
>>28919747 This makes me sad, not because it's about spying on you and transmitting it back, but because it's something so simple and obvious that shouldn't have to be patented (unless it actually describes a complex method to detect the emotions, which I doubt). Every time a company creates something mildly new (like a camera on a console), they have to go through a "QUICK LET'S PATENT ANYTHING THAT COULD BE REMOTELY RELATED TO THIS BEFORE ANYONE ELSE DOES" rush, and any time you want to make anything new you have to check thousands of patents because you're definitely breaking a few..

1 hours later 28920136 Anonymous
I see no difference between this and the current sheep who use windows andvget constantly monitored through updates, and authentication checks.

1 hours later 28920140 Anonymous (Take these maracas my robotic master.jpg 570x300 24kB)


1 hours later 28920178 Anonymous (Typical MS Surface user.jpg 550x348 32kB)


1 hours later 28920218 Anonymous (Fermi-upgraded PS1 makes toast.png 304x267 62kB)


1 hours later 28920247 Anonymous
>>28918902 https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Creator

1 hours later 28920264 Anonymous
Anyone who does anything OTHER than watching pirated content from Usenet in 2012 is fucking retarded. I pay $6/month for any movie, TV show, fucking ANYTHING I want in HD. People who pay for Netflix, a cable service, etc. etc. are retards.

1 hours later 28920295 (^^ )~
>>28920264 >paying to pirate Retard alert.

1 hours later 28920327 LEE Forgot His Tripcode
>>28919913 >"Stand and clap to resume your movie, you fat Amerigoy"

1 hours later 28920332 Anonymous
>>28920295 Where else can you get almost every movie, in HD where available, at a rate which maxes out your connection? Music, games, etc., too? I'll wait.

1 hours later 28920362 Anonymous
>>28920332 Private trackers. They saturate my downstream and are more pleasant to browse.

1 hours later 28920390 (^^ )~
>>28920332 >movies Passthepopcorn >music What.cd >games Bitgamer >etc le pirate bay >implying your usenet has non-mainstream things

1 hours later 28920392 Anonymous
>>28920264 Paying to pirate illegal in my country. I don't want to go to jail, I prefer use legal methods such as torrents and DL.

1 hours later 28920409 Anonymous
>>28920332 Such behavior does not benefit society. Why do you hate society anon? Come and pay for corporations to watch you consume. One of us, one of us, one of us.

1 hours later 28920419 Anonymous
>>28920264 >>28920295 >not having an ISP with free usenet May not have 2000000000000 MONTHS ARCHIVED and full speed downloads but I get my shit from it just as easily.

1 hours later 28920436 Anonymous
>>28920362 PROTIP: content owners are part of your SEEKRET CLUB too, enjoy the letter from your ISP threatening to cut you off.

1 hours later 28920465 Anonymous
I think I'll go with the Phillips television, tyvm.

1 hours later 28920474 Anonymous (laughingelfman.jpg 256x353 29kB)
>>28920362 >>28920390 >broadcasting your IP address >having such bad downstream service that torrents max out your connection >not having literally everything readily available in one place, complete with massive automagical software support Excuse me while my HTPC pulls every episode of every TV show I enjoy in HD with no advertisements, movies which suit my tastes based on previous watches/ratings and rottentomato suggestions, and downloads entire libraries of music for me, all while I'm out of the house. >Come home >HTPC has already downloaded and categorized movies and music >Vast selection with pleasant graphical library >Flip on the telly and it's all there, just werkz plebs

1 hours later 28920546 Anonymous
>>28920390 where I can get invite to passthepopcorn?

1 hours later 28920552 Anonymous
>>28920474 >>28920436 >being American >not living in a country where it's 100% legal to upload and download media

1 hours later 28920574 Anonymous
>>28920552 >cue bongo drums You're right I'd rather be Canadian or something But I'm not, so this is what I've got. >bongo drums fade to silence

1 hours later 28920658 (^^ )~
>>28920436 That simply doesn't happen on private trackers, people are lazy and would rather go after a torrent with 10,000 peers than 30. >>28920474 Very few places in America have good connections. >>28920546 Ask in their IRC maybe? Or an invites forum on another tracker you're on?

1 hours later 28920684 Anonymous
>>28920474 >broadcasting your IP address fair point >having such bad downstream service that torrents max out your connection Is 20 megabits considered slow? >Come home >HTPC has already downloaded and categorized movies and music >Vast selection with pleasant graphical library >Flip on the telly and it's all there, just werkz Torrent clients can be automated similarly if a tracker has rss feeds

1 hours later 28920691 Anonymous
>>28920546 reddit.com/r/trackers

1 hours later 28920778 Anonymous
>>28920684 >Is 20 megabits considered slow? On /g/, they'd probably tell you it is. I'm on a 50 Mbps connection right now. However the average global speed is 2.6Mbps, and on the US 6.7Mbps so it's more than fast enough.

1 hours later 28920802 Anonymous
I'm in Michigan and 20 Mbps costs $40/month. I think you can get like 50 Mbps for $85. Not sure why the average is supposedly so low.

2 hours later 28921277 Apple
>>28920103 1. Doesn't blink. 2. People watching TV make random movements at random times, not in repeatable pattern (unless one has Tourett's syndrome).

2 hours later 28921344 Anonymous
>>28921277 Then import a Foxconn employee for minimum money. Build area for them to sit and assemble Apple products. Make him work 24/7 and focus Kinect on him. Everybody wins

2 hours later 28921483 Apple
>>28921344 OK. But pirating is more cost effective.

2 hours later 28921543 Anonymous
As if anyone would ever buy an xbox... let alone kinect.

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