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As I prepare for my final final (less than 7 hours from now) for my Film Production class, I am reminded of something our teacher told us on the last day of class. He was talking about the future shift of movies from a film format to a digital format. Undoubtedly, George Lucas came up in this lecture. My teacher said that when Revenge of the Sith was released, rather than distribute the movie on a hard digital medium, it was distributed exclusively through a satellite feed that had to be downloaded by movie theatres, and that it was the only movie that had ever done it before. This was something I'd never heard before. Does anyone know whether or not this is true? If so, it would certainly explain the high number of bootlegs out for this movie, as it is entirely possible to "intercept the transmissions."

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wow thats interesting i also thought it was wierd how many bootlegs of this there were
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That is the way it was distributed, and most likely the way all films (read: movies, because when they are digital they really stop being films) will be distributed in the future. We're living the death of analog. We discussed this same thing in my Film II class recently.

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Originally posted by: ReverendBeastly
That is the way it was distributed, and most likely the way all films (read: movies, because when they are digital they really stop being films) will be distributed in the future. We're living the death of analog. We discussed this same thing in my Film II class recently.


Yeah, I thought the same thing as I was posting that, that when movies are digital and not on film, it's not really logical to call them films anymore. Kinda sad. In my opinion, Phantom Menace's special effects looked the most realistic of the three prequels because it was on film instead of digital. The look is so clean on digital that the special effects stand out too much, but they blend in better on film. I hope I get a chance to work on movies before film dies out.

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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i love film too, thought phantom menace effects looked better there too. i actually enjoyed both aotc and rots better on film if only because it had a more realistic feel to it.

BTW if its sattelite fed wont it make it easier for movies to be bootlegged? we saw it happen at its biggest with rots
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Yes, but since ROTS was the first movie to be sent around like this, they must still be working on encryption to cut bootlegging.

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Yeah, but as my film production professor also said when talking about that, "But there's no encryption that can't be... um, decrypted... is that a word?" ^_^

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Well, the whole point of encryption is that the intended recipient is able to decrypt it. Otherwise you're destroying the original, and that's called destruction, not encryption.

If he meant, "There is no encryption that is not vulnerable to cryptanalytic attack," that's not true, either. A properly-implemented one-time pad system is invulnerable to attack; that is, the ciphertext is indistinguishable from random data and no amount of poking or prodding will make it make sense.

It's unlikely[1], though, that Lucasfilm used a OTP to encrypt its movies. It's more likely they used some standard block based cipher. There are attacks against those, but it is not feasible to brute force them unless they are really, really, truly broken. The best way to break a crypo system is still just finding the key+ciphertext or finding the plaintext. Either one requires some unscrupulous exhibitor to smuggle 80 GiB to a bootlegger. (Probably has already happened, but it's not trivial.)

[1] But not impossible -- some banks in Europe are using OTPs to communicate with their customers over the Internet.
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Hack teh gibson!

Edit: Seriously, I've always had a sort of layman's interest in information security, and some small professional interest, too. I am grateful to the real hackers like DVD Jon and Xiph.org for the usual reasons.
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