keyze opened this issue on Dec 03, 2011 ยท 97 posts
bagginsbill posted Fri, 09 December 2011 at 1:15 PM
In theory, a vendor-approved render farm could be done like this:
Vendor X decides to support the farm. She uploads all her commercial content to the farm.
Customer Y has a product from vendor X in her scene. Using digital signatures, she verifies to the farm that her content is legal, and exactly the same as the copy on the service. (Such as a texture file.)
Having verified that the files are the same, there is no need to transmit the vendor X content to the render farm - it's already there - and the digital signature authorizes customer Y to use it in her render without transmitting it.
This would mean the bandwidth problem would go away.
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