Porn Industry Trials Burnable DVDs

nukular writes "The LA Times has an article discussing porn giant Vivid following the likes of King Kong in allowing users to download and burn movies to DVD. Unlike in the Hollywood plan, these DVDs will be viewable on other DVD players." From the article: "Despite their obvious differences, adult and mainstream entertainment companies face similar pressures in the Internet age. Both are grappling with how to deliver content securely and reliably to devices in a variety of ways, whether it's prepackaged on DVD for TVs or sent wirelessly to cellphones. Both also want to capitalize on digital delivery methods but can't afford to undercut their retail partners: big-box stores such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for the major studios and mom-and-pop video shops for the porn producers. They also fear online piracy, which the music industry partly blames for its lackluster sales."

Cinemanow is Vivids Distributor

[microbrewer]

Cinemanow owns and operates All Adult Entertainment the distributor of Vivid's Videos so Hollywood is already onto this and owns the technology to distribute burnable movies .They are using porn as their sacrificial lamb to see if the content ends up on Usenet or P2P networks in the next 3 months .

Cinemanow is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment .

Re:"Trials" is a noun (are a noun, if you're Briti

[The Grassy Knoll]

I'm British and it's still "is a noun", sorry!

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Re:Technology marches on

[MtViewGuy]

People can laugh all they want but already a number of the more profitable companies making adult movies are seriously looking at making movies in HD-DVD or Blu-Ray high-definition disc formats. The resaon is simple: high-definition video cameras are rapidly dropping in price. Already, you can get prosumer 1080i resolution HDTV camcorders for under US$5,000, and even the type of very high-end 1080p cameras that were used on movies like Star Wars Episodes II and III are dropping to around US$100,000 for a one-time purchase, actually pretty cheap considering how much Panavision wants for camera rentals on just one movie.

Don't be surprised that the first adult movies in HD-DVD/Blu-Ray formats goes on sale by mid to late Fall 2006. I believe one company has already done a number of adult movies in 1080i format, so they already have the movies ready for the conversion to these formats when workstations mastering HD-DVD/Blu-Ray discs become widely available.

Copy Protection Methods

[BoredWolf]

The way current copy protection works on DVDs is actually quite simple. While the DVD is burning, bad sectors of data are written to the disc. Your computer attempts to read those bad sectors and freaks-out, thus preventing you from watching the DVD on your computer. Conventional DVD players just skip the bad sectors and continue reading from the disc. Burning the data to DVD would work exactly the same as it currently does, except you would actually be writing small bad sectors into the DVD, preventing you from copying that DVD. Therefore, the only protection needed would be some sort of DRM or encryption for the downloaded data so that users can only burn 1 DVD (using some sort of proprietary software, possibly), and can't send the download to others. Of course, you can/i? circumvent all of this by using transcode or analog video streaming... but most people aren't going to go through this trouble for their porn. The porn industry has been successful because they know people will pirate their products, but they aren't necessarily looking to collect the profit that is 'rightfully theirs', they're looking to make a certain amount or percentage of profit per video they film. If you make back even 10 times what you spent to film, what's the point of spending more money to squeeze another 5% profit out of the pirates?

Re:Vivid is the Microsoft of porn.

[drewski3420]

They've all gotten promptly dropped into the Recycle Bin.

Dude, that's how your parents find out! You've gotta Shift+Del.

link plz!

[Thud457]

In the OSS spirit, I rolled up my sleeves and started googling around for a HOWTO make my own porn, but all I came up with was this HOWTO Put Porn On Your iPod [diveintomark.org]!

I think they know already

[2short]

They already know that the content will end up on Usenet and P2P almost imediately, just like their main-stream "non-burnable" content does. Because one person with the know-how/equiptment to get around the DRM and upload it is all it takes. They can't do much about that, and they know it.
  Making it "non-burnable" annoys some people, but defeats the large number of people who would give or lend all their buddies a copy, but don't have the ability to burn them. This is not as big an issue with porn, because people don't typically do a lot of lending porn to their friends; so the industry may as well let you burn it.

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[ClioCJS]

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