Re: store system w 4-8 cameras ?

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Bob Worthy said:

>What does that do for a defendants case, even if the
>homebuilt is able to somehow produce a watermarked piece of evidence, other
>than leaving a large hole for the defendants attorney to walk through?

There's no requirement that video be watermarked in order to be used as
evidence.  The whole watermarking routine is just a bunch of marketing crap
dreamed up by the DVR manufacturers to sell product.

Want proof?  Look at all the bank robbers who were sent to prison on the
basis of 35mm film camera evidence.  Any watermarking?  No.  How about all
the VCR footage of crimes?  Any watermarking?  No.  Any bad guy ever try to
claim that Indusrial Light and Magic tampered with the video to insert him
into footage of a crime he didn't commit?  No.

How about network news footage, like the Rodney King beating?  No
watermarks there, either.  And if a TV news crew happened to catch a murder
on video, do you really think it wouldn't be admissible as evidence because
it wasn't watermarked video?  Of course not.

Watermarking is marketing bullshit, nothing more.

- badenov