Permlight Products Inc. and Osram Opto Semiconductors have introduced a new LED system for stopping movie piracy. The Permlight Products Enbryten Piracy line of anti-piracy products uses Osram’s recently introduced thin film infrared power LED technology to transmit a safe, harmless and human-invisible signal into movie audiences to wash out any silicon CCD based digital camcorders, the companies report. The line of proprietary and patent-pending, anti-piracy technology uses a randomly generated pulsing algorithm that powers up to 100 Osram Infrared Dragon LEDs using the new thin film technology. The Enbryten Piracy system does not affect infrared based video surveillance or hearing impaired audio systems.

Each system consists of multiple nodes, which use their own randomly generated signal so that each system is unique. Coupled together with Permlight recommended installation techniques which range from shutting down projectors to sending warning messages to theaters managers in the event of tampering, a fault tolerant system can be established.