Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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Movie theaters had to spend fortunes to upgrade to "secure" projectors. A single vendor, #DeluxeTechnicolor, monopolized the packaging of movies into "#DigitalCinemaPrints" for distribution to these projectors, and they used all kinds of dirty tricks to force distributors to use their services, like arbitrarily flunking third-party DCPs over picky shit like not starting and ending on a black frame.
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