Custom DVDs & Players For Academy Members

xyankee writes "In an effort to curtail the piracy and bootlegging of DVD screeners, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has endorsed a plan to distribute about 6,000 special DVD players to members that will play specially encrypted screener discs that would be earmarked for a specific academy voter and would play only on that person's machine. The Associated Press has the full story, while Laurence Roth, VP and co-founder of Cinea, Inc., the company behind the technology, says 'the discs, by themselves, cannot be hacked.'"

Comments

Riiiiight....

[thryllkill]

Cause it's not like the original DVDs were encrypted against hacking either.

Re:Riiiiight....

[crbowman]

One of the basic rules of cryptography is that you NEVER encrypt the same thing with different keys.


I thought it was never get into a land war in Asia, and only slightly less famous is never get into a battle of witts with a Sicillian when death is on the line.

Alirght

[Dark Lord Seth]

Laurence Roth, VP and co-founder of Cinea, Inc., the company behind the technology, says 'the discs, by themselves, cannot be hacked.'

Someone give that Johanson kid a call.

Famous last words...

[Chicane-UK]

..the discs, by themselves, cannot be hacked..

I hope that quote gets used a little later on down the line, when some 14 year old writes a few lines of code that circumvents yet another uncrackable encryption / protection system...

ha.

[Heem]

"'the discs, by themselves, cannot be hacked.'"

uh huh.

In related news, "That gun isn't loaded" , "The dog doesnt bite" and "The Titanic is unsinkable"

duh...

[pierredefermat]

whats it now..the alt key or the ctrl key?

Re:Probably gonna be redundant.. but..

[jeffkjo1]

If it has a video out, it will have Macrovision enabled to stop you recording a decent copy.

Ahhhhh! Curse You Macrovision!!! Your almighty copy protection cannot be stripped out by anyone! Arrrrrgggghhhh!!

Re:lol

[sentientbeing]

Actually, all a pirate would need is a fastscan wide screen TV and a video camera to make a distributable copy.

They could sit at the end of the room and just rip it straight to DVD-R from the camera.

For the authenticity of a cinema rip however, it would be necessary to have people walk past the TV eating popcorn every few minutes, slurping sprite and coughing regularly through the soundtrack.

It would be a trivial task to add out of focus Japanese subtitles later using a standard mpeg editor.

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist

[Anonymous Coward]

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