Gotta love DRM! A flub with a provider prevented Avatar from showing in 3-D in Germany!

[thewayne]

"According to German IT news site heise.de, yesterday several 3D showings of Avatar couldn't take place, because the movies were DRM protected such that there had to be a key per copy of the film, per film projector, and per movie server in the theater. The key supplier, by the name Deluxe, was apparently unable to provide a sufficient number of valid keys in time. Moviegoers were offered to get a refund or view an analogue 2D showing instead."

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/12/17/1916241/DRM-Flub-Prevented-3D-Showings-of-Avatar-In-Germany?art_pos=22

Comments

[silveradept]

...I'm not sure which is worse - that those movies required DRM keys, or that the keymaker couldn't provide enough of them. Did nobody there have a keygen that they could pull out in a pinch?