Another right mess for copy protection

摘要

In a follow-up to last month's report on the Cinea DVD player, and my conclusion that digital rights management (DRM) was not good for the film industry, the point was rammed home rather severely to one Mr. Spielberg when he, too, became the victim of DRM. After a long delay, British Academy members were sent Cinea-encoded screener copies of Spielberg's Munich, a film that had already proved controversial by managing to offend both Israelis and Palestinians. Spielberg is no stranger to controversy and there's always the recompense of winning an award judged primarily by his peers.