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Author Topic: New Technicolor "Anti-Piracy" policy Jeff Lacey Film Handler Posts: 54 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Jun 2005 posted 04-21-2006 07:10 PM                     Anyone else get the Technicolor Anti-Piracy memo, where they are now going to alternate reels in cans? All odd numbered reels are going to be in one can and all even numbered reels are going to be in another.... Anyone see how this is going to solve the piracy problem? It seems like a bit more work at the theater level. I hate to see how the prints will end up once the brain-dead $6/hr "booth ushers" get done with it.  |  IP: Logged Ky Boyd Hey I'm #23 Posts: 314 From: Santa Rosa, CA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-21-2006 07:33 PM                       Exactly what I would say. With no offense meant to anyone who is retarded, this ranks as one of Technicolor's most retarded "decisions" ever. Films are going to be more likely to be put together with reels out of order by people who aren't aware of the new policy and aren't paying attention. Also, this policy will only add confusion with regards to circuited prints. Is Technicolor going to rearrange the reels if the print stops at the depot? I know my staff will most likely put the reels back in the cans in numerical order when breaking down a film. And if the studios really want to combat piracy they should focus more on the ad agencies and production houses where the potential for high-quality piracy is far greater.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-21-2006 08:02 PM                     What's really pathetic about this is that there is actually someone (or worse yet, a group of people) who are coming up with these idiotic ideas...and getting PAID for it!  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 04-21-2006 08:18 PM                     Is the assumption that the films are being intercepted in shipment and copied before receipt at the theatre? Are there reasons to believe that the films are being copied after showing and before transport back to the depot? If you need both cans of film to complete the feature, how does the odd even packaging make any difference? You still would need both cans for a complete show. If one can is delayed in transit, you could make up either the first or last half of the feature while waiting for the other can to arrive. With the odd even packaging you are just ____! Is this post a little late or was it meant for 4/1/06? KEN  |  IP: Logged Thomas Dieter Expert Film Handler Posts: 234 From: Yakima, WA Registered: Jun 2004 posted 04-21-2006 08:25 PM                     Everyone should email Tim Burke stating that doing this will not slow down piracy, rather it will take and foul up first and possibly second run presentations. Working in a second run house, I've yet to receive a print from technicolor that goes 123S S456. I've had first three in one and last three in another, rarely have I found them in sequenchal order. This plan of "Anti-Piracy" looks like another way to push for Digital Cinema.  |  IP: Logged Jim Ziegler Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 753 From: West Hollywood, CA Registered: Jul 99 posted 04-21-2006 08:26 PM                     This is rather odd... I send an email to technicolor asking them to explain exactally how this is going to prevent piracy and the reconsider this decision. If enough of us do this, they may reconsider.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Lacey Film Handler Posts: 54 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Jun 2005 posted 04-21-2006 09:17 PM                     Ken... I received the fax today, so I am assuming that this new policy starts today.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 04-21-2006 09:24 PM                        Arranging deck chairs on the Titanic! Louis  |  IP: Logged Ky Boyd Hey I'm #23 Posts: 314 From: Santa Rosa, CA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-21-2006 09:29 PM                       So does anyone have Tim Burke's e-mail address?  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-21-2006 09:45 PM                        Ahhahahahahahaha! Wait, wait....I've got an even better idea...how bout loading the reels wind alternating directions, i.e., R1 with the wind coming off the right side of the reel, R3 the wind comes off the left side, then R5 off the right side again! And then get this....sheer brilliance.....in the second can, REVERSE them! Damn....I'm a freakin genius!! THE INMATES A RUNNING THE ASYLUM!!  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-21-2006 09:48 PM                     Boy Ky, you have that all wrong... You see, it is standard policy in theatres when sending a print out to: A) Not reattach the leaders and tails B) If they are attached to not necessarily attach them to the correct reels so as to foil a would-be thief into an out of order duplication C) To attach the leaders/tails with duct tape to ensure the would-be theif's telecine (since that MUST be how prints are allegidly stolen) will be ruined when the tape hits the machine. Technicolor is just trying to get a jump on the whole thing!  |  IP: Logged Thomas Dieter Expert Film Handler Posts: 234 From: Yakima, WA Registered: Jun 2004 posted 04-21-2006 09:53 PM                     Tim Burke's Email address is in the Reel News Newsletter that was faxed out today. tim.burke@thomson.net He also give an extention at the 800-99-Films number. --Tom  |  IP: Logged Ron Curran Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 504 From: Springwood NSW Australia Registered: Feb 2006 posted 04-21-2006 10:10 PM                        We have been receiving prints on flats in odds and evens boxes for some time now, also with some spools tail-out and some head-out. It is confusing enough for us, let alone the pirates with the eye patches.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-21-2006 11:32 PM                     I have a feeling this is just something Tim has been told to do by the studios, so assuming he likes the idea of keeping his job, he must do it. However that doesn't make this practice even the slightest bit intelligent! The more I think about it, the more I think this may be the stupidest idea EVER in the name of trying to prevent piracy. I dropped Tim an email letting him know about this thread, so even if TES doesn't let him reply publicly, at least he is reading your comments.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-21-2006 11:42 PM                        FWIW, the newsletter I got from TES today didn't have a word about this new "policy." Also there is a survey in that newsletter, be sure to fill it out! (Join me in putting in a gripe about "not enough trailers" for me, willya?)  |  IP: Logged

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