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  1. Cinea Protection by rHBa · · Score: 1 · on The DRM Scorecard

    I haven't heard about Cinea protection being cracked yet.

    I don't know about the technical details or if it really counts because it is only used by the studios on the screeners they send to association members.

    It requires a special DVD player to play the DVDs and those DVD players aren't easily available.

    Incidentally, I heard that they have had problems with it, apparently most of the screeners they sent out of Munich in 2005 wouldn't play which may have had an effect on the lack of Oscars the film won (although it still got 5 nominations in 2006).

    Of course, if you could get hold of the disc and the hardware you could easily make a nice TS.

  2. Someone didn't read Cinea's FAQ about Region codes by Turkey+Trotter · · Score: 1, Informative · on Spielberg Bitten by DVD Encryption

    According to this FAQ all S-VIEW encrypted DVDs are region-free. This means somebody somewhere dropped a major bollock.

  3. Re:Why use region coding? by realStrategos · · Score: 5, Informative · on Spielberg Bitten by DVD Encryption

    why are they even bothering to region code them?

    Because they werent suppose to!

    The S-View system requires a fully authored standard DVD-Video project as input, with only a few restrictions:

    1. Leave 200 MB free space on the disc (on Layer 0 of a dual layer title).
    2. Do not enable CSS.
    3. Do not set Region code.
    4. Do not set parental levels.
    5. Author the main feature as one continuous VTS, in MPEG 2.
    6. Do not author angles.
    7. Add a "Cinea Audio Track" as the last audio track for the title. "Cinea Audio Track" is a placeholder for watermarking data that the Cinea system generates. The content of this track is not important (the facility can use a track supplied by Cinea, or can generate their own). We can provide a Dolby Digital 128 kHz file (containing an audio test tone) 120 minutes in length, which is to be authored as the last audio under the entire feature.

    http://www.cinea.com/fews.html
  4. Re:Special players? by grimJester · · Score: 1 · on Spielberg Bitten by DVD Encryption

    I think it's this one. Encrypted disks with a special player that decrypts the signal and gives normal, unencrypted output to the TV.

  5. Re:Cinea is the company, not model by mike.newton · · Score: 1 · on Disney Encrypting Screener DVDs to Prevent Piracy

    Info on the company and their system here: http://www.cinea.com/s-view.shtml

  6. Don't they ever learn? by JohnA · · Score: 3, Insightful · on NIST Advanced Technology Program Awards
    The team that is using $2,000,000 of your taxpayer dollars to "further digital rights management infastructure" has a deep rooted history in another lovely product... Circuit City's DIVX (not to be confused with the MPEG-4 codec). Take a look at their homepage or their executive bios page for more details.

    I guess they couldn't get any private investment after they blew $200 million on DIVX...

  7. Don't they ever learn? by JohnA · · Score: 3, Insightful · on NIST Advanced Technology Program Awards
    The team that is using $2,000,000 of your taxpayer dollars to "further digital rights management infastructure" has a deep rooted history in another lovely product... Circuit City's DIVX (not to be confused with the MPEG-4 codec). Take a look at their homepage or their executive bios page for more details.

    I guess they couldn't get any private investment after they blew $200 million on DIVX...