![]() ![]() ![]() So if a piece of copyrighted material enters your home through the box, and ends up being pirated or file-shared, it will bear an individual watermark leading the copyright holder back to you. The technology might be applicable to cable, satellite, or any other kind of STB. Soon chips will be built into STBs to read watermarks in MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC, and VC-1 formats. Thomson developed NexGuard to trace pirate masters back to the theaters where they were stolen with camcorders or to DVDs distributed to reviewers and awards juries. (The illustrationĪ watermarking technology used to trace pirated movies back to the source will soon be built into set-top boxes. I say add another hundred words of fork-tongued bureaucratese to PG-13 and call it a day. The MPAA's rating guide already uses 306 words to describe PG-13 Material within R, and move soft-R material down into a broadened PG-13. My suggestion: Rather than complicate the system with a sixth rating, keep the hard-R Now pressure is building from parent groups who feel, as Variety explains, that the current R "is too broad,Įncompassing everything from a few swear words or brief flashes of nudity to repeated scenes of stomach-churning mutilation andĭisembowelments." Hollywood is listening, but doesn't want to shove hard-R titles into NC-17 because exhibitors shun films in that ultimate categoryĪlmost completely and Blockbuster won't stock them at all. Ratings (a comic masterpiece of hairsplitting and equivocation). And X changed its name to NC-17 when the terms obscene and pornographicīecame "legal terms for courts to decide," as the MPAA notes in its explanation of There was a single M rating, for mature audiences. After all, before there were PG and PG-13, There are precedents for subdivision and name changing. Hard-R) for extremely graphic horror pics. Pressure is building to subdivide R into two new ratings, one for fleetingly racy material, and another (already informally known as PG, parental guidance suggested PG-13, parents strongly cautioned R, restricted and NC-17, no one 17 and Should the Motion Picture Association of America add a sixth rating? The current set of five includes G, for general audiences: ![]()
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