NEW CHANNELS OF FILM DISTRIBUTION SEMINAR

The Finnish Film Foundation (SES) Auditorium, Helsinki, 22 April 2005, all day. Opened and hosted by Harri Ahokas, head of distribution (SES).
NEW CHALLENGES OF DVD DISTRIBUTION / Leif Lindblad, CEO, Sandrew Metronome Distribution Finland. DVD has been booming for five years now, and it does not seem to be slowing down. By the end of the year, the blue laser DVD's (HD-DVD and BluRay) are expected to break.
FILM DISTRIBUTION ON THE INTERNET AND THE PIXOFF SHORT FILM PORTAL / Cyde Hyttinen, Producer, Provisual Oy
THE VIDEO-ON-DEMAND PROJECT AT PIXOFF / Lassi Tasajärvi, Project Manager, Provisual Oy
A CASE OF VIDEO-ON-DEMAND: FILMARKIVET.NO / Ole A. Werring, Project Manager (Norway)
A CASE OF VIDEO-ON-DEMAND: SF-ANYTIME / Johan Cramer, CEO (Sweden)
BACKGROUNDS OF NET PIRACY OF FILMS / Lassi Tasajärvi, Project Manager, Provisual Oy
FIGHTING NET PIRACY OF FILMS IN PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS / Martti Vakkala, Marketing Chief, Viralg Oy
DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (DRM) AND CASES OF MUSIC DISTRIBUTION / Ben Mellin, CEO, Secury Cast Oy
A PANEL DISCUSSION ON COPYRIGHTS OF FILMS
- Lasse Saarinen, chairman of the Society of Finnish Film Producers
- Mika Taanila, film director
- Jukka Liedes, director, Ministry of Culture
- Ville Oksanen, researcher at the Polytechnic University, chairman of the Electronic Frontier Finland
- Leif Lindblad, CEO, Sandrew Metronome Distribution Finland
- Martti Vakkala, Marketing Chief, Viralg Oy
- Lassi Tasajärvi, Project Manager, Provisual Oy
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Of this impressive seminar, one of the most memorable topics was the complex mechanism of internet piracy, very hard to fight.