Chicken Little and DRM
p2p news / p2pnet: It`s mind-boggling that DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) has become so big. Mind you, only corporate minds are boggled ; )
It doesn`t work and it can`t work, but the entertainment and software cartels, and the many remora-like firms who existences depend on them, think they can scam enough people into thinking DRM is for real to make it a worthwhile proposition.
Dolby Laboratories has a good rep and now it`s jumping on the bandwagon with technology to “ward-off bootleggers in the motion picture industry, says TechWeb.
The company is developing DRM, for servers used by theater owners that are swapping out celluloid for digital projector and IT networks, says the story, going on that the technology will support Disney`s Chicken Little on November 4 across the country, and will, debut in about 85 theaters in digital 3-D format, in which Industrial Light & Magic, a Lucasfilm Ltd. company, rendered the movie.
Dolby is “bullish about digital cinema because we think it’s a much better defense against piracy than current systems,” its Tim Partridge told TechWeb.
“The first level of security is the information during transmission, whether satellite or hard drive, is very securely encrypted,” he said.
No bets on how long it’ll take Chicken Little to show up online.
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TechWeb – Dolby To Showcase DRM Technology, October 20, 2005
October 21st, 2005 at 6:11 pm
They seem to talking about encrypting the transmission of the movie from the studio to a digitally equipped movie theatre.
That is fine and might have some effect in the future, but currently noone is trying to intercept movie transmissions from studios to movie theatres.
But to effectively encrypt something you need to keep keys secret at all levels, so such a system would require all keys in all cinemas in the world to remain secret always and never get into the public domain. Unless there is another way.
Those are my thoughts, I could be wrong in any of my above assumptions.
October 21st, 2005 at 6:58 pm
How ironic.
Dolby jumps on the DRM bandwagon at a time that it is full of entertainment industries who are wailing “the sky is falling, the sky is falling!!”
FBM
October 21st, 2005 at 7:09 pm
The truth of the matter is very simple. Dolby has been told that if it wants included in the media formats it will comply with the DRM standards or be left outside and without inclusion into those formats. Since Dolby is a commercial venture, not doing so is a sure economic death. I am quite sure that given no choice in the matter they have put on their best face to support it.