Hollywood announces contest for new ways to distribute and watch movies

[Jorge]

Offers grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000 USD to those with the most promising ideas that focus on areas like "promotion of the legal use of media and deterrence of piracy."
<p>Looking for "A few good geeks," Motion Picture Laboratories, Inc ("MovieLabs"), a nonprofit research and development organization based in Palo Alto and founded by the studios in 2005 with a $30 million bankroll, has announced that it is searching for innovative technologies in the distribution and use of motion pictures and consumer media. </p>
<p>The search is two part approach in that it's launching th
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[Sparky9]

DRM-free via bittorrent
when and where do i collect the $$$?

[CCSDUDE]

stop treating the people who actually pay for your content like shit? cuz the people who don't wouldn't anyway you DRM it

it's gotta leave a salty taste in your mouth when you dish up 2 grand for a purdy new widescreen plasma monitor with dvi a 1000 buck blu-ray/hd-dvd player for your computer only to find you've been restricted to a lowly vga output

makes you wanna avoid the studio all together when they've clearly stuck their testicles in your mouth before during and after your purchase

adding salt to the wound box pushers with no technical know-how cheerfully exclaim 'no refund only credit' upon angery return of said products

amazon unbox is yet another failed DRM model in this respect as it's hardly HD quality for 15 bucks (not even DVD - no 5.1 just stereo) and costumer support is lacking in a way that has the support team telling people to re-download (pay for again!) a film simply because their server dumped them off

[inovayta]

DRM-free via bittorrent
when and where do i collect the $$$?

i think we have a winner...

Definitely a lot cheaper medium for delivering the movies than what it costs the evil companies right now. But they wouldn't do that, then there would be no packaging and case costs to blame their prices on.

[yellowpather]

so the mininum amount you can get is $25k?