Studios form alliance to fight piracy at DVinfo.net

Boyd Ostroff · September 19th, 2005, 03:33 PM

Disney, Time Warner, Sony, Viacom, News Corp and General Electric have created a joint venture called "MovieLabs" with an initial budget of $30M to study the issues of piracy and develop ways to combat it.

http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2005/mf...gvisit=y&npu=y

This is an interesting concept;

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The consortium will look into ways to jam camcorders in theaters, technologies to detect illegal traffic on file-sharing networks, and methods for preventing unauthorized access to personal networks, among other technologies.

Joe Carney · September 19th, 2005, 10:26 PM

I wonder how they are going to combat boycott and apathy and resentment over high ticket prices.

K. Forman · September 20th, 2005, 04:34 AM

"I wonder how they are going to combat boycott and apathy and resentment over high ticket prices."

What about crappy, unoriginal movies, and really bad remakes?

Peter Wiley · September 20th, 2005, 04:58 AM

How about a studio alliance to make movies people want to see?

If people are willing to watch camcorder-based knockoffs of films it should be sending message.

The studios need to become netflix.

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Joe Carney Inner Circle Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Centreville Va Posts: 1,828	I wonder how they are going to combat boycott and apathy and resentment over high ticket prices.

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Peter Wiley Major Player Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Lewisburg PA Posts: 752	How about a studio alliance to make movies people want to see? If people are willing to watch camcorder-based knockoffs of films it should be sending message. The studios need to become netflix.