Thursday, September 2, 2004
C|NET: "Film Group Turns To Secure DVD Players"
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 05:00 PM
"The British Academy of Film and Television Arts will supply secure DVD players to voting members to prevent them from illegally copying films competing for awards. Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, this week announced a deal with the academy to supply SV300 DVD players ... The SV300 can play encrypted discs created using Cinea's security system called S-View, the company said. The security system is designed to allow movie and TV producers to secure their content against piracy at production and post-production stages."
With the SV300, only authorized persons can access the protected content and a large number of encrypted discs can be created and each player is individually addressable so that pirated versions can be tracked. This is apparently in direct response to a suggestion last year by the Motion Picture Association of America suggesting banning DVDs from being sent to Oscars voters, in an attempt to prevent piracy. Someone smell consumer product? ;-)
With the SV300, only authorized persons can access the protected content and a large number of encrypted discs can be created and each player is individually addressable so that pirated versions can be tracked. This is apparently in direct response to a suggestion last year by the Motion Picture Association of America suggesting banning DVDs from being sent to Oscars voters, in an attempt to prevent piracy. Someone smell consumer product? ;-)
