[Clips] Disney 'Screener' DVDs to Use Dolby Encryption Technology

[R.A. Hettinga]

"And *where* do we put the CCD?"
  -- Number one answer in a "Top Ten" quiz at the FC2K rump-session to a
description of a certain "Mickey Mouse" projector protocol...

Cheers,
RAH
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 The Wall Street Journal

  October 24, 2005 9:39 a.m. EDT

 Disney 'Screener' DVDs to Use
  Dolby Encryption Technology
 By WILL DALEY
 DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
 October 24, 2005 9:39 a.m.

 BURBANK, Calif. -- Walt Disney Co. said it will use encryption technology
 from Dolby Laboratories Inc. in the 2005 "screener" DVDs it provides to
 people who vote on movie awards.

 Disney will use technology from Dolby unit Cinea, which provides copy
 protection and piracy tracking for DVDs.

 "This process offers maximum protection for our films, while allowing key
 members of the Academy, BAFTA [British Academy of Film and Television
 Arts], and a few other select organizations the opportunity to view these
 contenders in the comfort of their own homes," Walt Disney Studios Chairman
 Dick Cook said in a statement early Monday.

 Last year, authorities charged a Chicago-area man on allegations he copied
 movies from videocassettes he received from a member of the Academy of
 Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who had received screener tapes.

 Cinea's method includes the S-View DVD player and encryption technology.
 The DVD player also plays standard DVDs.

 In collaboration with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and
 the Bafta, its British counterpart, Cinea has distributed the DVD players
 to nearly 12,000 of the collective voting members, according to the press
 release.

 Cinea encrypts each disc with a code unique to each member, and the disc
 delivered to each member will play only on the Cinea DVD player registered
 by that member. A Cinea encrypted disc cannot be viewed on any other DVD
 player or computer.

 Disney said it is exploring the possibility of incorporating Cinea's
 security technology into its entire post-production process.


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