Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Hollywood Studios Form Tech Group to Fight Piracy
Posted by James Fee in "CONTENT" @ 06:00 AM
"Hollywood's six major film studios on Monday unveiled a technology venture to find new ways of protecting movies from illegal copying and distribution in black markets or over the Internet. Motion Picture Laboratories Inc., or Movielabs, will look for new technologies to detect illegal videotaping of films in theaters and evaluate new computer hardware and software that is being used by networks to distribute films. The venture's goal is to discover technologies that combat piracy then recommend their use to universities, companies, Internet service providers and other network operators, the groups said in a statement from the Motion Picture Association of America."
Lets be honest, there isn't a group that has thrown more good money down the drain trying to fight piracy than the MPAA. Rather than actually address the reasons for piracy, they continue to tilt at windmills looking for anything to waste their money on. At some point Wall Street needs to step up and recognize that they are throwing billions of dollars (and not just those Canadian Dollar, I'm talking real American Dollars) down a drain. If they would just listen to their customers around the world and address each market differently, they'd do much better than these big blanket efforts that only make consultants rich.
Lets be honest, there isn't a group that has thrown more good money down the drain trying to fight piracy than the MPAA. Rather than actually address the reasons for piracy, they continue to tilt at windmills looking for anything to waste their money on. At some point Wall Street needs to step up and recognize that they are throwing billions of dollars (and not just those Canadian Dollar, I'm talking real American Dollars) down a drain. If they would just listen to their customers around the world and address each market differently, they'd do much better than these big blanket efforts that only make consultants rich.
