Warner Bros. Sued for Pirating Anti-Piracy Technology
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Maybe now they can stop trolling youtube and being dicks? Seriously, youtube isn't harming anyone, they're going as far as totally audio blocking videos with snippets of songs in. Another thing on that note, do WMG own ALL music? Because there seems to be no limits on what they're claiming is theirs. I hope they throw the book at them, hard.
money money money... its so funny... =)
I don't see how this will stop piracy that much tbh. Aren't most movies totally re-encoded by the pirates?
I don't see how this will stop piracy that much tbh. Aren't most movies totally re-encoded by the pirates?
if I read this right, they didn't pirate any technology as much as they stole the idea. Which i guess is pretty much the same thing isnt it. Hope they get sued for big money! Although, why only mention this now, it seems like it might be a lie. Didn't they supposedly do it in 2004 or something like that, why are we only hearing about it now.
Pirating an anti-piracy thing? I think the whole thing is in danger of collapsing into a singularity.
I wont get any freaking diet tribes like some of the drivel spewers who are commenting, but I will say this in my best opera voice:
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IIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
The irony on this one is think enough to cut with a... Patent form?
This sounds like an April 1st headline to be sure.
This sounds like an April 1st headline to be sure.
..not really. The rips are just stripped data that's compressed back from the usual commercial formats. But the hd-releases that turned up a while ago was the digital film that movie-theaters got. So this kind of drm would take care of the people who copy the digital streams instead of just letting it stay in the box until the premiere day. Honestly, without the (not very smart) people who do pre-screening and so on for WB and others, we would never get the "blockbuster" summer movies out on torrents before the premiere. It'd just be the niche-releases instead, basically.Sneaklemming said:
Or else it would be later releases that won't compete, at all, with the premiere week... (unless you live in.. anywhere else but the US, obviously)..
That exists already. The production kits that are used to create the master discs, etc., are full of industry grade DRM, so they won't get abused, lost, and so onFunkysandwich said:
This is just too sweet. Hate to revel in anyone's hardship, but this is just too rich. The audacity of WB if it turns out to be true. Not really setting a good example are they.Andy Chalk said:Warner Bros. Sued for Pirating Anti-Piracy Technology
Warner Bros. [http://www.warnerbros.com/] has been sued by a German technology firm which claims the movie and television production company pirated its anti-piracy technology.
German firm Medien Patent Verwaltung claims that in 2003, it revealed a new kind of anti-piracy technology to Warner Bros. that marks films with specific codes so pirated copies can be traced back to their theaters of origin. But like a great, hilariously-ironic DRM Ouroborus, the company claims that Warner began using the system throughout Europe in 2004 but hasn't actually paid a dime for it.
"We disclosed our anti-piracy technology to Warner Bros. in 2003 at their request, under strict confidentiality, expecting to be treated fairly," the company said in a statement. "Instead, they started using our technology extensively without our permission and without any accounting to us."
Medien Patent Verwaltung originally claimed that Warner was infringing on patent 7,187,633, called "Motion Picture and Anti-Piracy Coding," but as The Hollywood Reporter [http://thresq.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/05/warner-bros-sued-for-pirating-antipiracy-technology.html] discovered, the patent going by that particular name actually bears a different number and is held by none other than Warner Bros. MPV's attorney in New York acknowledged the error and said that the suit will be refiled with the proper information.
Which has no bearing on the question at hand: Is Warner Bros. using pirated anti-piracy technology? This one could be fun to watch.
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