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Technical measures intended to secure our prerogatives may ignite an arms race or otherwise muddy the issue.

However clever the Georgia Tech system was as a proof of concept—and it made for an impressive demo—there were factors it was not able to account for. For example, it could not prevent photographers using digital SLR cameras (or, indeed, conventional, film-based cameras of any kind) from acquiring images. This was immediately pointed out by optics-savvy members of the audience and openly acknowledged by the designers.

If you were among those in the audience that day in Tokyo, you might have noticed that the discussion took a ...

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