Oscars 2013: Who's Putting Academy Screeners Online ?

[A Marvel Fanboy]

This is really an interesting arctile from THR.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscars-2013-whos-putting-academy-414505

[A Marvel Fanboy]

According to TorrentFreak, The Hobbit has been viewed 2 million times. And though studios use watermarking technology to hunt down those responsible, awards season is certainly the favorite time of the year for pirates, since screeners provide pristine copies of the latest films. "It's out of control," confesses one distributor. "It's Hollywood's dirty little secret."

[Jim Shorts]

The Hobbit was watermarked the fuck out! Seriously, I've never seen so many added like that before.

[JackO]

lol it's how i was able to see the films not in my area! The funny thing is that studios themselves have been caught putting films online by their IP adresss.

[riczhang]

Weinstein films are generally the best protected. Also what I find kinda annoying is that every calls them Academy screener leaks but in actuality very little if any are actual Academy leaks. Most of the leaks you see are generally from SAG or other similarly large guilds. Two big reasons is that the guilds are too large to control effectively especially SAG with 100000+ members. Secondly, the academy members are people who are very distinguished in their fields and this have more integrity and belief in supporting the industry. This is why we generally never see torrents of Academy exclusive screeners leaked. (though a lot of those are already out on DVD) all the leaks houses are generally screeners mailed out to the masses.

[Wormow]

SLP was most pirated.movie, why am I not surprised?

[TLK]

SLP was most pirated.movie, why am I not surprised?

It is the most pirated movie because it stayed in limited release for an eternity.

[Kalderic]

Its sad because some of these films could really use the extra money in theaters... like SLP. But its going to happen.

[Travod]

I've also wondered about the movies that say like FYC on the bottom. I imagine Daniel Day Lewis sitting at home uploading it to TPB.

[ladyevenstar22]

don't know and don't care but very grateful ! you know how infuriating it is to like to follow award season and not be able to see any of the film because they're not the usual fare of your one lone theatre moviegoers who seeminlgy prefer comedies/ actions and throw in random drama like a bone for the rare older crowd!

 

i had nearly given in until last  minute they added les miserables and so i went to see it   on the big screen but i was getting antsy as more guilds are given out their prizes , come award season i'd pay to see the movies but if i'm not even given the choice ,what am i suppose to do? it sucks to be sidelines from convo just because of where you live!