Digital Watermarking for DVD Video Copy Protection What Issues Play a Role in Designing an Effective System?

this article we illustrate the various issues that play arole in designing a copy-protection system for digital versatiledisk (DVD) video as perceived by Millennium, oneof the two contenders in the DVD-video copy protectionstandardization activity. We present the Millennium watermarksystem, the systems proposed for DVD videocopy protection by Philips, Macrovision, and Digimarc.We also address some specific system aspects, such as watermarkdetector location and copy generation control....