DVD screeners to get extended protection

[MoonDog]

Very interesting. I wonder how long it will take for someone to crack this type of protection?
As preview copies of movies, widely known as screening copies or screeners, constantly leak to the internet, the movie industry is planning a to implement a much stronger hardware based copy protection. The new scheme includes special DVD player hardware, watermarking, and inserting contact information to the image.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has endorsed a plan to distribute about 6,000 special DVD players to members. Specially encrypted discs, known as screeners, would be earmarked for a specific academy voter and would play only on that person's machine. The player also would imprint an invisible watermark on the disc each time it is viewed. In addition, if someone uses a camcorder to tape the movie as it is playing on a monitor, that image would contain information on the person assigned the machine.
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The success of that effort led Cinea Inc., a division of Dolby Laboratories, to approach the academy about a combination of encryption and watermarking so studios could once again distribute screeners on DVDs.

[trey85stang]

in an article i read, the person in charge of the technology said.. "No one will hack the disc alone"(meaning the disc without the player)

I give it 1 week after someone getting an actual disc in their hands :)

[11B2V_Mike]

you think they would have kept some of the ways to ID who leaked it a secret that way they could round up the guilty parties easier. :confused:

oh well, ingenuity will prevail and someone will find a way to hack it eventually :D

[DarkWolf]

I give it 1 week after someone getting an actual disc in their hands :)
Stop being so pessimistic. I give it 2 days.