On 2005-11-26T00:41:54+0000, Dave Howe wrote:
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
More hilarious is when javascript is used to prevent saving images. Even if you get the OS to obey, there are always cheap cameras. An older videocam can be used to copy a movie off your screen (like a first gen cassette) even if all the video D/As are 0wned by the MPAA and forced to have DRM. (Don't think it can happen? Look at CALEA & Skype, etc.) Aren't the majority of 0-day "copies" of just released movies camcorder recordings from inside a cinema?
Yes, and 3-7 day "copies" of popular movies are done on telecine machines. Basically, the groups find a friendly movie theater worker, and they take in a telecine machine after hours and have some one-on-one time with the film reels. Telecines copies are quite good. Real D/D copies don't come out until closer to the dvd release date, when the first studio-internal dvds are made.. usually months after release. Sometimes the studios make early screener dvds for movies, generally low-budget limited-release movies, and generally toward the end of the year, the objective (I think) being a shot at the oscars. -- The six phases of a project: I. Enthusiasm. IV. Search for the Guilty. II. Disillusionment. V. Punishment of the Innocent. III. Panic. VI. Praise & Honor for the Nonparticipants.