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Disney Encrypting Screener DVDs to Prevent Piracy

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the this-dvd-will-self-destruct-in-five-seconds dept.

Sascha J. writes "Disney is continuing their war against piracy. To their Oscar reviewers they now send out special encrypted DVDs, which can be played only on a DVD player of the "Cinea" series. From the article: "The DVD players are encoded with recipients' names, and screeners sent to those people are specifically encrypted so they can be seen only on those particular DVD players." Yet, Disney is alone on this. Sony and Universal Pictures said they won't follow that step."

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  1. Boycott them by FishandChips · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It's so insulting. If the academy members had any principles, they'd return the material with an angry letter alogn the lines of "This is not material that deserves to be taken lightly. On the contrary, it deserves to be thrown with great force into the nearest fireplace."

    So many members are in a position to influence the studios in a way the rest of us never will be. Instead they seem to be supinely laying down moaning "Treat me like dirt! I'll do anything to be told I'm important and can afford to run five Ferraris at once."

    Still, perhaps nearer the time Slashdot could run an article entitled "101 things to do instead of watching the Academy Awards". Alas, not very hard to do anyway, I guess, considering the crap standard of so many films these days.

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  2. Stop whining and act by wheelbarrow · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    An open letter to those who don't like the Disney policy:

    The solution you need is at hand today. Please just make the free and voluntary choice to follow the steps I lay out here:

    1) Don't buy any Disney products. Nobody is forcing you to put money in their pockets. You make a free and voluntary choice everytime you do.

    2) Make your own successful feature film. Hire some big stars and make sure it's good enough that everyone will want to see it. Then, as the producer, you can make the free and voluntary choice to release your film without DRM.

    If enough people do this then Disney will change or whither away. We don't need any other means. Everything we need it at hand today.