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Adobe Photoshop: Counterfeit deterrence system

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Re: Adobe Photoshop: Counterfeit deterrence system

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Post by pessimizer »

NoToP wrote: post #16
taviso wrote: post #3

A few years ago I extracted the CDS logic and got it working in Linux so I could experiment with it: https://twitter.com/taviso/status/902997594460135424 I had planned to see if I could come up with an image that would still be detected even with significant distortion, and then print it on a t-shirt... The idea being you couldn't open a photograph of me in PhotoShop! :) I got sidetracked, but I should get back to th…

You could sell this image as an nft.

That's the final form of the nft. Where you own a url pointing to a file that can't be opened. There have to be a lot of those in the wild already.

Re: Adobe Photoshop: Counterfeit deterrence system

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Post by _a9 »

thot_experiment wrote: post #28

Is it legal to host an ultra high resolution image of a dollar bill?

I downloaded a very hires image that has both sides of a $20 bill (Counterfeit but looks real) from a DNM many years ago. For shits and giggles I would sometimes upload it to random hosting sites to see if anything happens, I first uploaded it to google drive and it's still on that account to this day. Did the same with dropbox and onedrive but I cant check since I don't remember the passwords but nothing happened initially.

It might be a different story if I would have generated a public share link. At least for Google I'm pretty sure they scan for copyrighted content with public links, so I assume they do currency checks.

Re: Adobe Photoshop: Counterfeit deterrence system

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Post by dylan604 »

taviso wrote: post #3

A few years ago I extracted the CDS logic and got it working in Linux so I could experiment with it: https://twitter.com/taviso/status/902997594460135424 I had planned to see if I could come up with an image that would still be detected even with significant distortion, and then print it on a t-shirt... The idea being you couldn't open a photograph of me in PhotoShop! :) I got sidetracked, but I should get back to th…

They'll just have the AI blur out the shirt and keep your face.

I just hold up my middle finger directly in front of my face.

Re: Adobe Photoshop: Counterfeit deterrence system

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Post by ta988 »

pessimizer wrote: post #41
NoToP wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could sell this image as an nft.

That's the final form of the nft. Where you own a url pointing to a file that can't be opened. There have to be a lot of those in the wild already.

Only in Photoshop in that case so that's not really impossible to open with the myriad of other software.

Re: Adobe Photoshop: Counterfeit deterrence system

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Post by hakfoo »

dumpsterdiver wrote: post #14
chrismsimpson wrote: post #8

More proprietary software treating their users like criminals as the default.

What legitimate use case can you think of where the benefit of faithfully reproducing currency is not outweighed by the need to prevent the proliferation of counterfeit currency?

If you sell currency as a collectible, people are going to want a high-quality scan on the product page to confirm that the note is as described; a few folds can subtract hundreds of dollars from the sales price.

There's a couple firms who maintain reference catalogs for this sort of thing. At least one of them regularly asks for 300-dpi scans of new issues so they can keep the book (which is now basically a PDF released as a subscription) up to date.

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