Movie Studios Unveil New Anti-Piracy Lab

PaulusMagnus writes "According to the BBC Walt Disney, Sony, Paramount, Warner Bros, Universal and 20th Century Fox have formed a new organisation called the Motion Picture Laboratories. They've also given them a nice tidy sum of US$30m to play with to develop new technologies to combat piracy." From the article: "There are thousands of new concepts floating around the hi-tech community about how to develop tools to fight piracy ... Researching and developing these technologies now will help save the major studios and other motion picture producers and distributors money in the future."

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Just publicity

[Phantasmo]

Movie studios love piracy. It's not seriously cutting into their profits, and it gives them an excuse for poor sales.
Ask any movie executive why Gigli failed financially, and they'll tell you it was piracy. Same with House of the Dead or Deuce Bigalow. "Oh, everybody 'downloaded' it before it even hit theatres. Damn shame. We didn't even have enough money to pay the carpenters, set designers, makeup people, caterers... actually, the only people who got paid were me, the star and the director. Isn't that funny. Man, I wanna get those crooks."