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Studios Approve Burn-to-DVD Movie Downloads With Encryption Upgrade

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 11, 2006 - 1:08pm.
Morgan Hill, Calif. - Hollywood movie studios will soon allow downloaded movies to be burned to DVD, following changes made to the encryption technology used to protect DVD movies from piracy. The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA), an industry group that devised the Content Scramble System (CSS) encryption that protects DVDs from unauthorized copying, said that movies will be able to be burned to special blank DVD discs that utilize an upgraded version of CSS. "Allowing the creation of high performance, protected DVDs in the business or at home that, until now, could only be mass-produced in factories is another major step forward," said DVD CCA chairman Chris Cookson. In addition to burn-to-DVD movie downloads, the association said an early commercial application of the new technology would enable kiosks in retail stores, where consumers make a selection of some form of video entertainment, and wait while the disc is burned for them in the store. Recently, movie download site CinemaNow launched a test of a service that allows consumers to burn some downloaded films from its library to DVD.

http://www.dvdcca.org/data/css/DVDCCArecordrlsFINAL.pdf
http://tinyurl.com/lx8u8 (AP)
http://tinyurl.com/hms3t (CNET)
http://www.cinemanow.com
tags: Video | Downloads | Tech | Movies | Commerce | DVD | DRM | Studios |



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