Disney Encrypting Screener DVDs to Prevent Piracy

Sascha J. writes "Disney is continuing their war against piracy. To their Oscar reviewers they now send out special encrypted DVDs, which can be played only on a DVD player of the "Cinea" series. From the article: "The DVD players are encoded with recipients' names, and screeners sent to those people are specifically encrypted so they can be seen only on those particular DVD players." Yet, Disney is alone on this. Sony and Universal Pictures said they won't follow that step."

My thought

[cuerty]

Making movies almost imposible or very hard to view for reviewers it's the best marketing choice.

Yeah, take this as irony.

No more....

[Anonymous Coward]

pirated copies of bambie :(

Disney?

[Anonymous Coward]

Because Pirates just can't resist a 0-day release of Cinderella.

But Disney Loves Pirates

[Boomshanka]

They love pirates of the carribean so much that they are making another. Somewhat of a double standard!!!

Sony & Universal are no better...

[Brent Spiner]

Sony and Universal Pictures said they won't follow that step

No, I hear that Sony and Universal are making the reviewers watch the movies from jail, and letting them out when the movie is officially released.

To their Oscar Reviewers..

[Anonymous Coward]

..they send special gold-lined dvd players encrusted with diamonds.
Sometimes they even send a dvd movie to view.

Re:Disney?

[Anonymous Coward]

You insensitive clod.
Pirates have children too!

Re:Brave New World

[Anonymous Coward]

their too stuck up
The Alphas can afford education.

Re:So the Academy is the pirate syndicate?

[rjw57]

If I put my mind to it I think I could figure out who one person is who would actually get one of these DVDs and that's because my brother taught the guy golf lessons a few years back. ...

The odds of actually knowing who would have one of these and actually be able to get your hands on it is just about impossible.

Haven't you just about disproved your own existence?

Secure delivery

[Centurix]

If they're going to this much length to protect their content, they should just get a bunch of armed security guards to personally deliver the DVD within a sealed DVD player chained to his arm. Train the security guard on how to plug the thing directly into a TV.

No more reviewers!

[Anonymous Coward]

They should just forget about those pesky reviewers copying their films and simply send out the reviews of the movies to the papers.

Oh wait Columbia Pictures tried that... I wonder how Mr. Dave Manning is getting along!

Re:But Disney Loves Pirates

[zakezuke]

They love pirates of the carribean so much that they are making another. Somewhat of a double standard!!!

They are actually going to make a film about dvd pirates in the Carribean? With ships and 300-pound canons? I can just imagine the Sweedish Pirate Captain Anakata ordering "Klarp skepp!" AAARRGH!

Yes, I borrowed this from thepiratebay's legal page.
http://static.thepiratebay.org/lensmannen.jpg [thepiratebay.org]

Re:Brave New World

[DarkEdgeX]

Nothing, he's probably just naming off the next 5 or so hurricanes since they ran out of names this year.

Re:Idea

[GbrDead]

... the internets.
Oh, did EU already split off?

Re:Di$ney

[Slashcrap]

then don't use it to play normal dvd's.

Yes, well done. That is exactly the point I was making. Perhaps you would benefit from a little less time watching DVDs and a little more working on your reading comprehension skills. Once you've got that licked, you could move on to more advanced subjects such as the use of capital letters and closing your mouth when you breathe.

The irony of Slashdot is that this will be modded "Flamebait" but you won't be modded "Idiot". Meanwhile, people will continue to speculate about why Slashdot is full of idiots.

Re:Idea

[glesga_kiss]

sod the oscars. Let the people decide! This is America aint it?

Yeah! Lets make the oscars once every four years and only allow two crap movies to enter!! ;-)

So let me get this straight...

[zwilliams07]

Disney plans on encrypting their screener DVDs. Umm, last time I checked Disney didn't have anything good to pirate. Nothing remotely good has come out of them in years with the exception of distrubtion for Pixar and Ghili-Films.

To me this is like putting a dog turd in a wall safe.