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MPAA Finally Realizes That Proprietary DRM'd Screener DVDs Are A Waste

Way back in 2003, then head of the MPAA, Jack Valenti, got so worried about “piracy” of movies coming from insiders that he banned the use of “screener” DVDs for those voting for the Academy Awards. If...

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Motion Picture Academy Member Unhappy About Being Treated Like A Criminal

We’ve covered the rather ridiculous lengths that the MPAA has gone through over the past few years to try to “protect” screener copies of the movies it sends out to Motion Picture Academy members as...

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Sony Won't Support Its Own Movie For An Oscar Over Misplaced Piracy Fears

One of Jack Valenti’s final battles while still in charge of the MPAA was his silly, misguided war on DVD screeners. Screeners are copies of the movie (on DVD, obviously) that are sent out to people to...

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Movie Exec Says Studios Should Stop Sending Out DVD Screeners For The Oscars

One of Jack Valenti’s last great “battles” as the head of the MPAA was his fight against DVD screeners sent out for the various movie awards events. Valenti felt that sending screeners of all the...

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Analysis Of Pirated Oscar Movies Shows They're Almost All Available… In HD...

As we’ve mentioned in the past, every year for over a decade, Andy Baio scours the internet to see what Oscar-nominated movies have been put online (the answer is usually almost all of them). He...

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Hateful Eight Pirated Leak Harms Film All The Way To Box Office Records

Mike just recently did a post on the horrible effects of piracy on Hollywood box office results from last year, which can be summarized as “holy shit, look at all the money!” That post took a macro...

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Hollywood Keeps Insisting Tech Is Easy, Yet Can't Secure Its Own Screeners

We keep getting back to the whole “nerd harder” aspect of those who don’t understand technology insisting that technology can accomplish just about anything, if those darn techies would just put their...

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The Oscars Ends DVD Screeners For Reasons Other Than Piracy, Which Will Of...

Oscars DVD screeners, the DVDs that get sent out to judges that are up for an award, have been an on again, off again topic for years at Techdirt. These screeners were at one time a very prevalent...

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