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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:17:03
Digital Rights Management may foil Spielberg's Bafta Glory!
DVD's carrying the new Spielberg opus Munich to British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) voters finally arrive a month late, only to be found to be encoded in Region 1 (USA and Canada, Europe is region 2). How could this possibly prevent Munich from justly reaping awards? Surely a multi-region DVD player or a basic pc are more than suitable workarounds?
Enter Karma
In addition to the region encoding the DVDs destined to the judges were also encoded so they would only play in proprietary DVD players created for Dolby by Cinea. A subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, "Cinea helps major studios and service providers protect digital video with our family of anti-piracy solutions and services", the Cinea fingerprint/watermark encoding announced at the beginning of July 2004 was originally intended to plug the Oscar screener piracy problem. Munich screening DVDs shipped in this format, minus the appropriate proprietary players...
Judging by Dolby's success at stemming the problem with the forthcoming BAFTAs, you can't help but wanting to pat each member of their team on the back for a job well done! I wonder what other movies that won't get their just awards in the coming decades?