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Topic: Transformers to premiere on cable pay-per-view, same day as box office?!
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Mark J. Marshall
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From: New Castle, DE, USA
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 06-26-2007 10:37 AM
quote: Joel N. Weber II
Complicated encryption systems can still have subtle flaws, and typically all a cracker has to do is find one such flaw and the rest of the system falls apart.
If I remember correctly, CSS failed because some manufacturer forgot to encrypt or otherwise protect its content decryption key, and someone found it. The encryption used on HD-DVDs and Blu-Ray DVDs is starting to fall apart because again, someone managed to find a decryption key.
These aren't examples of flaws in the encryption algorithm being exploited. These are examples of someone finding the key to the front door, and letting themselves in. Too often people make the mistake of thinking that just because something is encrypted, it's safe, but then they fail to protect the key that unlocks it.
I don't know what algorithm D-Cinema uses, but if it's an asymmetrical key algorithm, and the projector's private key is buried deep in the hardware where no one, including the manufacturer can get to it (which is what I would have done), then the encryption itself won't be broken any time soon.
Your best bet at cracking a movie from a D-Cinema projector with a laptop is to hook a web cam up to it and record it off the screen while it's playing. But then you're stuck with the watermarking pointing right back at you, so that's really no good either.
I don't see a D-Cinema hack happening any time soon if at all. It's way too impractical. I'm sure that won't stop folks from trying though.
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Christopher Meredith
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posted 06-26-2007 01:51 PM
quote: David Stambaugh
quote: Christopher Meredith
Of course, in these contexts, the issue is fair use, not ease of copyright violation.
Of course! Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more!
That's right, because everyone is a criminal, right? If I buy a DVD, I should only be allowed to watch it on a hardware player or in Windows or MacOS, right? And if I buy a song from iTunes, it's only logical that I would have no reason to want to listen to it on something other than iTunes? If the music/movie industries had their way, everything would be pay-per-use. We aren't consumers anymore, we're an ocean of renters.
Don't get me wrong, I wish "piracy" would have an adverse effect on the industry. Maybe in that case, studios would be ab it more selective on what they threw their money behind.
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Christopher Meredith
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posted 06-26-2007 05:29 PM
What I mean is that if some event or series of events atually did cause the Hollywood studios to start losing money, or at the very least, stop making so much money so fast, they would necessarily have to be more selective. This of course does not mean fewer remakes, but I would think it would encourage the studio execs to be more intested in "quality control" since their dollar has to go further.
In the same vein, if film-making became less of a money-making enterprise, the in-it-for-the-money types would become more scarce and those doing it for the artistry would continue to do it. The same is true of musicians. The real "artists" will continue to make and produce music whether or not they get paid millions to do it.
All this being said, I think it's a moot point because "piracy" does not, and will not have this effect. The movie theater industry is, in effect, a value added reseller. Customers can get movies in a range of formats and the home theater is becoming increasingly hi-tech. The theater industry should take even half the zeal it pours into anti-piracy measures and instead work on ways to make the theater-going experience something worth getting off the couch for.
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John Wilson
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posted 07-06-2007 11:21 AM
From www.showbizdata.com
BAY WATCH
Days before the opening of the latest Transformers movie, director Michael Bay posted an angry message on his blog, deriding producers Don Murphy and Tom DeSanto for allegedly attempting to take undeserved creative credit for the film. Although his message was later removed, it was apparently cached by Google and found its way to L.A. Weekly columnist Nikki Finke, who posted it on her website today (Thursday). In it, Bay writes that he had only one creative meeting with DeSanto a year ago, during which, he wrote, "I realized he was worlds apart in my vision. I said, 'Thank you very much,' and then showed him my office door. I never really spoke to him again other than to mutter, 'Hello.'" Bay says that although he never had conversations with Murphy, he did read notes from him "kind of trashing the script and making me and the writers feel like a big s*** pile." Bay also accused DeSanto of attempting to get a writer's credit on the film and discussing the film with interviewers at an awards dinner as if he had seen the completed film. "Give me a break," Bay wrote. "The guy was lying through his teeth. He had seen nada, nothing, until the press screening."
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you Paramount, we're not running Transformers or, especially, any of the other crap you've got coming out this year. I see this every Monday over the pettiest things. There's more than one studio out there to buy product from and Paramount is certainly not oblivious to that.![[fu]](graemlins/fu.gif)
to any studio doing a day-and-date release of a major movie.
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