Hoping to avoid a repeat of last years movie piracy The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has sanctioned the use of ‘pirate-proof’ DVDs. A company called Cinea has spent several million dollars on making DVDs harder to pirate.
In addition to a new hardwired encryption system, Cinea’s S-View uses a watermarking system that writes a code identifying the host DVD player onto the disc every time it’s played and even embeds it into key picture frames. If the disc is copied or the image grabbed using a camcorder pointing to the screen, Cinea can determine whose disc was used as the source for the pirate copies.
Source: Neowin
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