Disney to distribute movies via blockchain
The company created a distribution system that encrypts files in order to guarantee protection against piracy
Disney developed a film distribution system with exhibitors that encrypts files using keys to guarantee their protection against piracy, also using blockchain technology.
The system, created by Disney in 2018, was recently published in the United States Patent Office, and serves as a distribution tool between producers and distributors with exhibitors.
As stated in the patent, entitled ‘Blockchain configuration for the secure delivery of content‘, the use of security mechanisms seeks to eliminate the risks of files being leaked in the process of sending them.
In addition, this technology proactively prevents piracy, rather than reactively, as is often the case today, by using watermarks to identify leaks after they occur.
Disney’s system uses a program that serves to receive the files but also records their reproductions and generates public keys to decrypt the contents of the films, which are saved through the use of blockchain.
In this way, the use of the blockchain serves as a distribution system and at the same time records the activity of the file, for example the times it has been reproduced or preventing it from being seen before the date stipulated by the producer.
K. Tovar
Source: Semana.com
