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Which means that hardcore bootleggers, as always, will spend their money on the hardware that works best for them.

Which, in this case, would be a quarter-inch square of electrical tape.

I wouldn't count on it. Standard CMOS sensors can see infrared, but are filtered so that they do not. It would not be much of an engineering challenge to use the CMOS sensor to read an IR data stream while filming.

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