Custom DVDs & Players For Academy Members 266
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.'"
Riiiiight.... (Score:5, Funny)
Alirght (Score:5, Funny)
Someone give that Johanson kid a call.
Famous last words... (Score:5, Funny)
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. (Score:5, Funny)
uh huh.
In related news, "That gun isn't loaded" , "The dog doesnt bite" and "The Titanic is unsinkable"
duh... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Probably gonna be redundant.. but.. (Score:5, Funny)
Ahhhhh! Curse You Macrovision!!! Your almighty copy protection cannot be stripped out by anyone! Arrrrrgggghhhh!!
Re:lol (Score:2, Funny)
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 (Score:0, Funny)
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Re:Riiiiight.... (Score:3, Funny)
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.