• @[email protected]
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    12 years ago

    Put a few blocks of information encoded in the video of the ad itself. Require that block of information as a key to watch the next video on Youtube.

    Interesting. But it probably only takes less than a few seconds for a program to scan a 30s video file and extract that bit of information.

    • Skull giver
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      12 years ago

      That’s why you’d need to stream the ad one second at a time so you can’t scan the full file. Whether you’re watching an ad or not, you’d be waiting for the ad to finish.

      Of course this is a rather naive idea, but it just shows how one might go about accomplishing this. I’m sure Google’s programmers can come up with much better solutions.