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alt="pirate flag" align="left" height="90"
width="120">It's a little less than four weeks
until the Oscar awards are handed out, so that
means it's time for...piracy! Posting pirated
movies on the Internet, that is. Every year, the
"screener" DVDs of nominated movies that are sent
to Oscar voters find their way onto the web for
illegal downloading. Screeners often are versions
of the movie that have not yet been through the
final processing to enhance the imaging, but are
good enough for voters to rate the movie. But
while movie piracy in general is on the increase,
if <a
href="http://torrentfreak.com/google-asked-remove-345-million-pirate-links-2014-150105/">takedown
notices</a> are any indication, a strange thing
may be happening with screeners: Some of them may
not be good enough for the discriminating pirate
any more.
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<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="https://torrentfreak.com/95-of-oscar-contenders-leaked-on-pirate-sites-already-150116/">95%
of Oscar contenders leaked on pirate sites
already</a> (TorrentFreak | Ernesto Van Der
Sar) "What stands out immediately is how widely
available the films are. Of all 2015 nominees,
except documentary and foreign films, 34 of the
36 films (95%) are present on pirate sites. Only
the animated feature film 'Song of The Sea' and
best original song nominee 'Glen Campbell: I'll
Be Me' have yet to appear online. The films that
are available don't all come in perfect quality
of course. 'Beyond the Lights,' for example,
only leaked in a CAM (camcorded) version. Most,
however, are available in relatively decent
screener, DVDRip or comparable quality."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.allvoices.com/article/100003260">The
cat-and-mouse game between online pirates and
the Academy Awards</a> (Allvoices | Joe
Kukura) "The vulnerable spot in the Academy
ecosystem does appear to be the academy's own
voters. The voters, many of whom employ a large
personal staff because they are rich and famous
Hollywood people, are either complacent, unaware
or in on the job. The common perceptions is that
stars' personal staff are making the copies,
though this has never been verified. But it's
not as if the Academy Awards voters' homes are
being broken into and their screener DVDs
stolen. Voters' DVDs are being copied on purpose
by non-intruders."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://consumerist.com/2015/01/08/high-number-of-oscar-screeners-hit-pirate-sites/">High
number of Oscar screeners hit pirate sites</a>
(Consumerist | Chris Morran) "It's not known
which roommate of which member of which guild
stole his friend's DVDs and shared them with the
world, but TorrentFreak reports that nearly all
of the above screeners (with the exception of
The Hobbit and Big Hero 6) originated from the
same source. Lending credence to the notion that
this is some amateur who decided to share this
content with the world, TorrentFreak says that
the encoding of the files being shared via
BitTorrent is 'choppy,' implying that it's an
inexperienced pirate who ripped these files."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="https://medium.com/message/pirating-the-2015-oscars-hd-edition-6c78e0cb471d">Pirating
the 2015 Oscars: HD edition</a> (The Message |
Andy Baio) "If you're the first to release a
highly-prized film in a high-quality release,
you win bragging rights over every other group.
A release that's lower quality than one already
leaked by someone else? Completely worthless. A
cam isn't great, but a telesync is better. A
telecine is marginally better than a telesync,
but a watermarked screener? Much, much better.
But here's the thing: screeners are stuck in the
last decade. While we're all streaming HD movies
from iTunes or Netflix, the movie studios almost
universally send screeners by mail on DVDs,
which is forever stuck in low-resolution
standard-definition quality."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Articles
from <a href="http://ohioweblibrary.org">Ohio
Web Library</a>:</em></strong></small><br>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=d0d7d1e1-79eb-493d-8ead-39a980b70e46%40sessionmgr4002&vid=2&hid=4207&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=buh&AN=12923080">Want
to fight DVD piracy? Try digital printing.</a>
(<em>EMedia-The Digital Studio Magazine</em>,
April 2004, p13 | Debbie Galante Block)</li>
<li><a
href="http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=83f2f697-8051-418c-b082-94ce68a1f944%40sessionmgr4004&vid=2&hid=4207&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=f5h&AN=15620393">Screeners
flow with watermarks.</a> (<em>Daily Variety</em>,
1/6/2005 p6,31 | Terence Keegan)</li>
<li><a
href="http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=11f76d90-3e4e-4499-a3a1-25c93cf0fc83%40sessionmgr111&vid=2&hid=123&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=f5h&AN=70427893">Oscars'
screener stream still a dream.</a> (<em>Variety</em>,
1/16/2012, p9 | Tatiana Siegel)</li>
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