When I did the same experiments in win98, the magic color was not bright green but #010000, the darkest possible red.
Was this dependent on the OS? Or the driver?
When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it
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#52This reminds me of the time when Quake started rendering inside the start button of the Windows 95 desktop (or maybe Win 98). I wish I could remember the details but it think it was something to do with alt-tab.
Re: When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it
#53This was always annoying, when you wanted to take an actual screenshot of a high resolution video and use it as a desktop background for example. I assumed it was connected to hardware/software acceleration or something.
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As far as I can tell, it's still the case if the video is DRM-ed. Then any screenshots of it will be black square, because the OS can't "see" the video, it's sent directly to the monitor, similar as in the article.
No, it's not that. Usually, the OS does see the video and the compositor still renders it to the screen like normal, but when you take a screenshot, the OS itself is an accomplice here by not rendering that surface in screenshots.
Unfortunately, current implementations of DRM use things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_Media_Path
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2005 is pre iPhone. While cameras were definitely common, they also weren't quiet as ubiquitous as they're today. Lots of families only had them for trips etc, not readily available for kids to make photos of screens.
> 2005 is pre iPhone I hate how incompetent tech writing and marketing rewrote and simplified mobile phone history into pre/post-iphone. Yes, we did have touchscreens, smartphones and camera-enabled devices many years before the iPhone. Arguably, on several metrics, many Symbian/Linux/blackberry phones of that era are better smartphones than today's iPhone/Androids as defined by hardware capabilities which got remove…
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Many flip phones had cameras by then. For instance, the Razr V3 was the best selling phone of 2005, and had a 640×480px camera.
It's not that Cameras didn't exist, more that the technological features were not sophisticated enough to enlist cheating compared to now. A personal OCR Python library wasn't a thing back then. Not saying that cheating was impossible but uneasy unlike to now where there's a library for everything.
AABBY FineReader was very pirate-able since the early 2000s. The workflow would have been a bit clunky, but it was still very doable.
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This is simply wrong. Videos are still rendering in overlays in windows in Chrome right now. There are many reasons why overlays are still used.
[citation needed] If video rendering used overlays, then YouTube could not put the toolbar or subtitles on top of the video, and they’ve been doing so for a long time.
The toolbar and subtitles are in a separate plane that gets composited on top.
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40140067
>In today's Chrome, when a device supports hardware overlays, we promote at most one video's frames to hardware overlays.
Re: When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
2005 is pre iPhone. While cameras were definitely common, they also weren't quiet as ubiquitous as they're today. Lots of families only had them for trips etc, not readily available for kids to make photos of screens.
This might have been the case where you were, but it wasn't everywhere. I was about 15 at the time, I'd had multiple digital cameras and had a phone with a crappy camera on it. All of my friends had digital cameras. Myspace had already peaked, Facebook was taking off, and that was largely driven by kids taking pictures. The idea that the ability to take a photo wasn't ubiquitous for big parts of the western world in…
Now everybody has a phone with a good camera, back then cameras were not so affordable and cameras in phones were very bad quality
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not that Cameras didn't exist, more that the technological features were not sophisticated enough to enlist cheating compared to now. A personal OCR Python library wasn't a thing back then. Not saying that cheating was impossible but uneasy unlike to now where there's a library for everything.
AABBY FineReader was very pirate-able since the early 2000s. The workflow would have been a bit clunky, but it was still very doable.
Nobody argued that it was impossible before. Nor did I claim that there were no cameras before 2005.
Cameras just weren't as ubiquitous as today. Unironically arguing that point is silly. They just weren't (I know you didn't, but we're in a comment chain that made that argument).
Yes, in most groups of people, there were a few of them that had cameras readily available, but it wasn't the norm for everyone.
What was available (not just cameras, but ocr etc pp) was a lot less accessable then it is today - where you just point your phone at it and it transparently extracts you the full text of whatever is on screen/lens, consequently the issue got a lot more problematic and widespread, which was the only thing what was put forward here.