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Topic: MPAA - still not preventing piracy
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Brad Miller
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posted 05-09-2010 07:25 PM
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quote: Studios gain approval to block analog hole for new releases.
Hollywood was granted a major victory by the FCC this past week in a decision that gives the studios permission to shut down the analog ports on home entertainment equipment such as televisions, cable boxes, and satellite receivers. The decision stems from a 2008 request by the Hollywood studios which asked for the power to block analog outputs which lack copyright protection and can be recorded from freely. Blocking these analog ports is an anti-piracy measure that would force television programming to play back via digital outputs which have copyright protection to prevent the recording of the video signal. This power to shut down the analog hole would only be used for first run content which, according to the studios, has the highest rate of piracy. Blocking this potential avenue for piracy would allow the studios to bring new content to the viewing audience sooner as well. New releases in exchange for Hollywood control of home entertainment equipment, sounds like a deal with the devil great decision, no?
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quote: U.S. Lets Hollywood Disable Home TV Outputs to Prevent Piracy
May 7 (Bloomberg) -- The film industry can block outputs on home television equipment so studios can offer first-run movies while preventing viewers from making illicit copies, U.S. regulators said.
Temporarily disabling the outputs will “enable a new business model” that wouldn’t develop in the absence of such anti-piracy protection, the Federal Communications Commission said today in an order.
Home viewing of recently released movies over cable and satellite systems would provide revenue for studios such as Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures and Sony Corp.’s film division, which have seen DVD sales drop as more people get films through Internet, mail-order and kiosk rental services. The advocacy group Public Knowledge is among opponents who say the plan interferes with viewer choice.
The FCC order “‘will allow the big firms for the first time to take control of a consumer’s TV set or set-top box, blocking viewing of a TV program or motion picture,” Gigi Sohn, president of Washington-based Public Knowledge, said in a statement.
The Motion Picture Association of America asked the FCC in 2008 for a waiver from rules against disabling video outputs so that its members could send movies over cable and satellite services using “secure and protected digital outputs,” according to the trade group’s petition at the agency.
“This action is an important victory for consumers who will now have far greater access to see recent high-definition movies in their homes,” Bob Pisano, president and interim chief executive officer of the MPAA, said today in a statement. “It is a major step forward in the development of new business models by the motion picture industry to respond to growing consumer demand.”
The Washington-based MPAA represents Paramount Pictures, Sony’s film unit, News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox, General Electric Co.’s NBC Universal, Walt Disney Co. and Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. Pictures.
quote: Bob "moron" Pisano “This action is an important victory for consumers who will now have far greater access to see recent high-definition movies in their homes,”
Ummm, no it isn't. This isn't going to stop anything you moron.
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Ian Parfrey
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posted 05-10-2010 04:22 PM
The time is coming for those studio suit-wearing tossers to decide where their priorities lie.
First, they try and cripple theatrical screenings with CRAP code and farting soundtracks because, hey, theatres are the main cause of piracy and our loss of profit.
Then, they decide to use KDM's on Digi-prints and locks on film prints because, hey, exhibition is the main cause of piracy and our loss of profit.
Now, they want to knobble the analogue outputs on domestic equipment, because, hey, home video is the main cause of piracy and our loss of profit.
The studios wont be happy until -:
The Exhibition Industry is removed from the equation. I have said this for ages- In the eyes of the studios the Exhibition Industry is a pain in the studios arses and a money sponge that sets the studios money men into apoplexy.
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The studios won't be happy until the final, "hard copy" of the product- eg physical media, 35mm, DVD, Blu Ray, USB stick or whatever - is removed from the equation and pay-per-view is the norm. The studios can then get rid of all physical distribution and manufacturing issues regarding physical media and just pump the product under a KDM-like key system where the product remains under total studio control and flagged to prevent copying.
Now tell me this isn't going to happen.
quote: Bruce Hansen Tell those communists to get their hands out of MY equipment.
Proper communists would OWN the studios and distribute profits amongst the population.
Actually, this is capitalism at it's most vile..maximise profits and fuck everyone else....and another reason to tell them to stick their Digi push where the sun don't shine because the studios WILL demand off-site monitoring and access to YOUR Digi projectors and WILL gain off-site control.
Ever get the feeling that all but the studios are evil pirates who are out to rob them of hard earned monies?
A final two words to any suits out there reading this post -:
Goldman Sachs
Get the hint?
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