Online ‘file share’ film festival
p2pnet news | Movies:- "Organizers of the Cinequest Film Festival have turned to file-sharing in an effort to attract a broader array of participants," says Associated Press, going on:
"But the software they chose also enables illegal sharing of movies, music, software and other content. And that raises the ironic prospect of an up-and-coming filmmaker getting a legitimate distribution deal after succeeding at Cinequest, only to see his future work traded illegally using the same software that gave him his break."
Actually, thanks to the presence of DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) consumer control, there’s no sharing involved. This is a corporate download operation.
AP carefully avoids mentioning the name of the alleged file sharing software, but it’s the centrally managed (with all that implies) Verisign-owned Kontiki.
"The movies are delivered in Microsoft’s Windows Media format, and are copy-protected," says Wired.
Copy-protected is, of course, the innocuous-seeming euphemism for DRM.
And, "Unfortunately, Mac users are out of the picture," says the post, adding:
"The system works only on PCs, which is bad news for the hordes of indie filmmakers using Macs and Final Cut Pro to produce and edit movies."
Also See:
Associated Press – Fest Boosts Entrants With File-Sharing, February 1, 2005
Wired – Cinequest, a P2P Movie Fest, February 4 2005
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