{"id":88073,"date":"2009-12-18T04:42:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T09:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091217\/1743587414.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-18T04:42:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T09:42:52","slug":"drm-to-the-disaster-again-may-prevent-3d-showing-of-avatar-in-some-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/88073","title":{"rendered":"DRM To The Disaster Again… May Prevent 3D Showing Of Avatar In Some Theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s obvious been a lot of talk about James Cameron’s new epic movie Avatar<\/i>. One of the interesting things about the movie is that, yet again, it’s showing why Hollywood probably isn’t in as much trouble due to “piracy” as studio bosses keep insisting. Avatar<\/i> is designed to be the type of movie you absolutely want to go see in the theater, with amazing special effects, and an incredible 3D setup, like none you’ve ever seen before, and certainly one that you can’t replicate at your house, no matter how cool your home theater system might be. And yet… it seems that they’ve still decided to lock the movie up with DRM, and rather than helping things, that DRM is fouling stuff up. Some theaters in Germany have discovered that the DRM is preventing them from showing the film<\/a> in some theaters. So, here they are, with a movie that, by its very nature, is resistant to any problem from “piracy” (if anything, pirated copies might make people more interested in seeing the amazing effects), and they still try to DRM it up, and all that does is make it harder to see the special effects. So, what good does DRM do again?<\/p>\n

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There’s obvious been a lot of talk about James Cameron’s new epic movie Avatar. One of the interesting things about the movie is that, yet again, it’s showing why Hollywood probably isn’t in as much trouble due to “piracy” as studio bosses keep insisting. Avatar is designed to be the type of movie you absolutely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}