Monday, September 23 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Session A: Feature Distribution and the Threat of Internet Piracy - Evaluating the Short & Long Term Implications The statistics on Internet piracy of new feature releases can be alarming and unsettling. According to studies, there are hundreds of thousands of feature downloads each week. It is no wonder that film industry executives have been raising the red flag – understandably, they don’t want their industry to get Napsterized. Fortunately, from the successful box office numbers of the past year, the impact of Internet piracy has yet to be felt, but an all-digital cinema industry is coming and the Industry must prepare for it. Computers will always be more powerful, more consumers will have broadband, home theaters will be robust and PVRs and large-scale feature swapping may be the result. On the other hand, the news is not all bad. The technology industry has as much at stake in expansion of digital delivery of content as do the entertainment producers. More effective DRM packages are being developed and new and innovative subscription services are on the way. Is there a way to innovate out of the looming crisis? Is Internet piracy of feature films a show-stopper or simply an industry speed bump? Karen Randall, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Universal Studios Jim Ramo, Chief Executive Officer, Movielink (formed by MGM, Paramount, Sony, Universal Studios & Warner Bros.) Scott Sander, President, Chief Executive Officer & co-founder, SightSound Technologies Brad Hunt, Chief Technology Officer, MPAA Paul Kocher, President and Chief Scientist of Cryptography Research, Inc. Ian Ballon, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, Moderator Brad Hunt, Chief Technology Officer, Motion Picture Association: Mr. Hunt is currently the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Motion Picture Association of America. He works closely with the seven major studios that make up the MPAA in providing guidance on technology issues and policymaking. He chairs internal MPAA working groups that focus on a range of technical topics including copy protection, digital cinema, and Internet security issues. He has worked in the motion picture and television industry for over twenty-five years. His career experiences have ranged from research & development of motion picture film stocks to executive management of HDTV telecine and digital film post-production hardware businesses. He has also worked in the video post-production service industry and helped establish one of the early DVD pre-mastering and MPEG compression service facilities in Los Angeles. Mr. Hunt has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. degree from the William E. Simon Graduate Business School at the University of Rochester. He is also a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. Jim Ramo, Chief Executive Officer, Movielink:Jim Ramo’s 25 years of experience in the delivery of entertainment and information has made him a leading member of the broadcast, cable and satellite industries. His credentials range from executive positions in Fortune 500 companies to start-ups where he has built a reputation for using new technologies to broaden the distribution of content to consumers. From 1985 to 1990, Mr. Ramo was vice president of Hughes Communications (the forerunner of PanAm Sat) responsible for sales to the cable and broadcast industry. Most notably, from 1990-1997, he was a primary founder, and executive vice-president of DIRECTV, the industry leading DBS company. Following DIRECTV, he was COO of TVN Entertainment and CEO of Geocast Network Systems from 1997 to 2000. Before Hughes, he was a vice president at Times Mirror Cable Television, a manager at TRW Datacom International and a director of finance at CBS Television. Most recently, Mr. Ramo was in residence at Shelter Ventures, LLC, consulting for various communications companies and initiating investment opportunities in new media for this $200 million fund. Mr. Ramo has a M.S. degree from London School of Economics and a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley. He has two adult children and he and his wife and teenage daughter live in Los Angeles. Scott Sander is the President, CEO and Co-Founder of SightSound Technologies. Scott has emerged as a leading advocate for change in the motion picture and music industries as they adopt digital distribution. Since he co-founded SightSound Technologies, the six-year-old company has made history three times: In 1995, SightSound sold the first downloadable music online; in 1999, rented the first full-length film download over the Internet; and on May 5, 2000 released the first Internet feature film. Scott negotiated the first movie Internet distribution agreement with Artisan Entertainment to release Darren Aronofsky’s Pi in 1999, and the first motion picture studio Internet distribution agreement with Miramax who will release 12 films for download through the Internet. Scott was also Executive Producer of Quantum Project, the first Internet feature film produced by Metafilmics. Scott is also a founding member of the Technology Network, a political action group focusing on federal legislation affecting emerging technology companies. Previously, Scott was the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Kinetic Workplace, a Pennsylvania-based change management consultancy specializing in workplace innovation which he founded in 1987. IAN C. BALLON is the chairman of the Internet and E-Commerce Practice Group of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, and splits his time between the firm’s Palo Alto and Los Angeles offices. Mr. Ballon concentrates on e-commerce, Internet-related and intellectual property litigation, licensing and strategic counseling. He is also the author of the 3-volume legal treatise, E-Commerce and Internet Law: Treatise with Forms, published by Glasser LegalWorks. A frequent writer and speaker on Internet and intellectual property law, Mr. Ballon serves on the editorial boards of The Cyberspace Lawyer, The Journal of Internet Law, Privacy and Information Law Report, E-Commerce Law Report, and Intellectual Property Lawcast and is regularly quoted on these subjects in general-circulation and industry publications. Mr. Ballon co-chairs both the Intellectual Property Working Group of the American Bar Association’s International Cyberspace Jurisdiction Project and the Practicing Law Institute’s annual Internet Law Institute in San Francisco and New York. In early 1999, he was named one of the top 20 California lawyers under age 40 by California Law Business magazine. In 2001, he was named one of the top new media lawyers in the United States by CyberEsq. Magazine and one of the 100 most influential lawyers in California by California Law Business. In 2001, he was also elected a member of the American Law Institute. Mr. Ballon received an LLM in International and Comparative Law (with an emphasis on international protection of intellectual property) from Georgetown University Law Center and received his JD in 1986 from George Washington University, where he was the Articles Editor of The George Washington Journal of International Law and Economics. He received his BA in economics and political science from Tufts University. Paul Kocher is President and Chief Scientist of Cryptography Research, Inc. At CRI, he leads a research team that specializes in applying results from theoretical cryptography and computer science to solve real-world security problems. He has designed numerous cryptographic systems, including SSL v3.0, the world's most widely used encryption protocol. In addition to providing consulting services to numerous Fortune 500 companies, his research team at CRI is credited with discovering differential power analysis, designing the world's first non-classified DES key search machine, and conducting security evaluations that have caught hundreds of security flaws. He also leads CRI's hardware group, which specializes in designing and testing low-cost, high-assurance tamper-resistant integrated circuits. At CRI he is currently leading a major ongoing research effort to solve problems related to the theft of digital content. Prior to founding Cryptography Research in 1997, he co-founded ValiCert, Inc. (NASDAQ:VLCT), worked for RSA Laboratories, and earned a (completely unused) BS in Biology from Stanford University. His work has been reported in forums ranging from technical journals and Scientific American to CNN, National Public Radio, and the front page of the New York Times.