Academy backs 'pirate-proof' tech for Oscar samplers

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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

mmonnin

I dont want to see anything but a movie on my screen. Thats bullshit even if I did buy the movie.

GHoosdum

I think they're just talking about the screeners they send out to the academy, to prevent early release of movies by their members. Otherwise, how would they know whose DVD player it was if they put this protection on every DVD that goes out to everyone in America? Besides, a lot of the piracy is done overseas, anyway.

TheBaron

GHoos hit the nail on the head, I think.

Thrax

LoadPlugin("DGIndex.dll") #Load D2V frameserving plugin
LoadPlugin("Delogo.dll") #Load watermark/logo/subtitle remover
LoadPlugin("Decomb.dll") #Load NTSC IVTC plugin
DirectShowSource("VTS_01_0.vob") #Load the DVD's VOBs sequentially
Crop(4, 88, -4, -88, align=true) #Crop blackspace
Telecide(order=1,guide=2) #IVTC the DVD
Decimate() #Remove IVTC Frames
Lanczos4Resize(640,262) #Sharp pixel resize of the DVD
AssumeFPS(23.976) #Set proper framerate

XViD: Motion search 6, VHQ4, Chroma, Turbo, Trellis, Adaptive quant, Qpel, GlobalMoComp, Closed GOV, MPEG quant.

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