Pre-release content that cannot leak.
Screeners, masters, and pre-release cuts are sealed to approved playback hardware. A leaked file is cryptographic noise on any other machine, and embargo dates are enforced by sequential time-locks instead of trust.
Distribution is the weak point. A festival screener forwarded once, a dailies link opened on a personal laptop, a master sitting on a departed editor's drive: every copy is a perfect copy. The industry's answer has been watermarks and NDAs, which punish leaks after the damage instead of preventing them.
SCSA seals each deliverable to the measured hardware of the devices you approve. The reviewer's laptop can open the cut; the torrent copy is noise. Embargoes ride a sequential time-lock sized to the release date, so even a compromised insider cannot open early. The hash-chained log gives distribution teams a per-device, per-open record they can take to legal.
Screeners sealed to a reviewer's specific device
Each screener is encrypted to the measured hardware of one approved device. Copied to another laptop, a USB stick, or a torrent, the file contains nothing recoverable.
Embargoes enforced by math, not policy
A sequential time-lock gates the release date. Opening early is not against the rules; the work cannot be parallelized away, so it cannot be rushed, even by us.
Hash-chained audit log of every access
Every open, on every device, is signed into an append-only chain. A studio can prove exactly who viewed a cut and when, and any tampering breaks the chain.
Pre-release windows stop being the most dangerous weeks of a production.