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- we.are.devo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Instead of running the "screener" warning at the bottom of the screen ("This is property of MGM and you shouldn't be seeing this.") they should tailor it to the specific person so they can track who's releasing these. ("MGM gave this Oscar screener to Joe Smith and he's going to get busted for letting you have a copy.")
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3LOL?
This has been happening for ages. Nothing new :/ - SniperGX1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Serves the MPAA right for all the extortion they have been committing
- Kloser331, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Couldn't the article have provided a list of available movies and links to the bittorrent files?
It only mentions North County!?! Give me a more comprehensive list lol. - Shroomie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If they do that, it'll just get blurred or chopped out.
- the_d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yep, I downloaded "the constant gardener", and it said "for awards consideration only" down at the bottom of the video.
- capn_crunch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Instead of running the "screener" warning at the bottom of the screen ("This is property of MGM and you shouldn't be seeing this.") they should tailor it to the specific person so they can track who's releasing these. ("MGM gave this Oscar screener to Joe Smith and he's going to get busted for letting you have a copy.")"
some studios already do something like that, at the bottom of the screen they run a series of numbers that make it possible to identify where the video's supposed to be. This is rare but once in a while when your watching a movie you'll see the bottom of the screen go blurry every few minutes so as to hide these numbers. - greatdevourer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Reminds me of my BAFTA copy of Fellowship Of The Ring :p
- Bluezdood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hmm, guess we'll just have to look for those huh? Thanks for the info MPAA!
- soros, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0BTW, The Constant Gardener is a great movie... too bad hollywood didn't market this one a little better, like Serenity, they could have made their investment back with a little advertising. (although the gardener is a much better movie than serenity..not that serenity was bad or anything.)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yep, good!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There were movies worth pirating this year?!
- kday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0***** Torrents. They are slow and not safe. Use USENET. Downloading screeners at 15 mbps with FIOS.
alt.binaries.paxer --for these releases :P - soros, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hmmm, strange, the constant gardener is available as a dvd-screen rip right now, as a dvd-rip (xvid, 1.4 gigs) and as the complete dvd....
- Yy4n_e1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Um this is been happening a while now.... Whats new bout this?
- clerk37, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The Wolf Creek screener looks beautiful and it won't be in theaters for another 12 hours.
I love piracy. ;) - kaz928, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Pirates prefer screeners over movie-theater capture because the reproduction quality is better than with an illicit video recording, according to Graham."
Well Duh! - bemaniso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0notkevin, then someone would find a way to decode those dvd's and they would convert it to the normal DVD's. Basically their f*cked, and i like it :)
- knokoutned, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"It would cost so much money to encode and burn a special copy of every movie for each individual person. They would be better off making their own proprietary DVD players and discs and mailing those out. They sell DVD players now for $20, it wouldn't cost much more to make a special screener DVD player with a few extra encryption chips."
They already do that its called the Cinea playey BAFTA and The Academy both use them for some screeners. - notkevin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"they should tailor it to the specific person so they can track who's releasing these. ("MGM gave this Oscar screener to Joe Smith and he's going to get busted for letting you have a copy.")"
It would cost so much money to encode and burn a special copy of every movie for each individual person. They would be better off making their own proprietary DVD players and discs and mailing those out. They sell DVD players now for $20, it wouldn't cost much more to make a special screener DVD player with a few extra encryption chips. - XStatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Movie rental locations get the prerelease screeners. They are meant to get the video store employees/owners interested in promoting the movie and ordering a lot of copies..
These screeners are the ones sent to the academy members to use for voting on best picture, actor, etc. One would think academy members would be less likely to let these loose... - compu73rg33k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good.
- we.are.devo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"it wouldn't cost much more to make a special screener DVD player with a few extra encryption chips."
why didn't I think of that? - yukevster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They'll end up 'on the street' anyway. What's the big deal here.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Brilliant
- mousky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0***** BayTSP. This company requires people to pirate movies otherwise it would go out of business.
- ParanoiaAgent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh sweet!
*runs off to look* - AttroPheed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Don't they do this every year?
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In a related story....I wonder who will offer the first pirated copy of the Microsuck Vista OS....or is it already out there?
- Califax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"32 comments already and no one has posted all the torrent links from piratebay yet? Come guys, it's Xmas! Give freely!"
Exactly why I, and release groups HATE torrent lamers - freonchill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they say these have watermarks to trace them back to was given that copy
is the EFF gonna call out for all screeners so they can find it and catergorize it like they did for color laser printers? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That didn't take very long ;)
- rolypolyman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why can't they simply put subtle marks in the screeners so they can figure out whose tape got pirated? Just stick a tiny artifact in a frame in the film, at a position that's different for every DVD. Then you can look it up and see whose copy was pirated.
Not that I endorse the heavy-handed tactics at the studios, but still, for chrissake, protecting a set of small distributions isn't rocket science. - Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Mwa ha ha. I have some of these/ Not on the computer, but actual physical copies. I love having relatives in Beverly Hills. :D
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great. Good for them.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"When the DVDs containing the screeners are sent out to people involved with the Oscars, there is a risk that some unauthorized person will see a DVD sitting on someone's desk and make a copy, Kishore said."
Ho ho ho, because nobody in the Academy would ever pirate a movie? When you can't TELL who did it, you're being dishonest if you don't canvass the most likely methods. - galactus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ok I'm dying to get my hands on "Breakfast On Pluto", the rest I can give or take
- ProgScan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Why can't they simply put subtle marks in the screeners so they can figure out whose tape got pirated? Just stick a tiny artifact in a frame in the film, at a position that's different for every DVD. Then you can look it up and see whose copy was pirated.
Not that I endorse the heavy-handed tactics at the studios, but still, for chrissake, protecting a set of small distributions isn't rocket science."
That's how CINEA encoding works.
Here, have a looksee: http://www.cinea.com/forensic.html - strike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Haha its true, a Wolf Creek dvdrip and American Pie Band Camp dvdrip just showed up. Hilarious!
- ThePDW, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yay! Couldn't be happier. Consider this a Christmas give from the Motion Picture Industry.
- quack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My father is a member of BAFTA (the British Film Academy) and we were sent a free CINEA Secure DVD player this year to use with our Disney screeners as they have a much stronger (and unbroken afaik) encryption. I wonder how much it cost them to send every Academy member a DVD player.
- Tweekster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0zbeast:
yeah, there were...lord of war for instance...there were a lot of crap movies. there were a lot of good movies.
and since when have films been released that quick. i must have missed that because it still takes MANY months - zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0With films being released so fast as real DVDs why bother trying to download these screeners.
wait a month. Out of all the films that came out this year there are no films worth it. - denied, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0aw snap. +digg because I forgot it was already Oscar season.
/me runs off to the torrent sites - traitor597, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The special Cinea DVD Players cost $500 each. You can actually buy one from the company.
- shiftless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't even like downloading movies anymore. Netflix to me is like a download with 100% quality every time. $20/mo? Sounds like a fine price to me.
- LoneBannana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0AH! Whatever!
Just wait until they come out on DVD. By then, the Studios have squeezed out as much money as they can from the movie, and don't care.
I mean, when they sell so many copies to netflix, they KNOW that people are going to record it, Right?
I dunno. let me know if i am wrong, but the movie has ended its profitability at this point... much like book publishers cannot make any money when college books are sold used... yet. - serpentor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+032 comments already and no one has posted all the torrent links from piratebay yet? Come guys, it's Xmas! Give freely!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just watched the North Country screener last week, ***** You MPAA
- sagedude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what they need to do is hide unique codes in random frames of the movies.
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