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posted by martyb on Sunday May 03 2020, @08:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-will-they-call-them-now? dept.

Pirated 'DVD Screeners' Will be History After Next Year's Oscars

The Academy announced this week that DVD and Blu-Ray screeners will be banned after the next Oscars ceremony. This marks the end of a long-standing tradition. Not just in the movie business, but also on pirate sites where the DVDscr tag is closely watched. Although Oscar DVD Screeners may soon be history, this doesn't mean that screener leaks will be thing[s] of the past.

[...] This year, plenty of discs will be shipped too but, after the upcoming Oscars ceremony, that will be a thing of the past. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this week that physical screeners will no longer be allowed in 2021.

"[T]he 93rd Awards season will be the final year DVD screeners will be allowed to be distributed; these mailings will be discontinued starting in 2021 for the 94th Academy Awards," the Academy writes.

The Oscars follow the same path as the Emmys, which already made the switch this year. According to the Academy, the transition is part of its sustainability efforts. This also includes a ban on physical music CDs, hard copies of screenplays, paper invites, and other things that possibly hurt the environment.

[...] Whether piracy was considered as a factor at all remains a guess. Some insiders believe that digital screeners are easier to protect and therefore more secure, but that is up for debate.

There may be fewer leak opportunities in the distribution process, but it's common knowledge that streaming platforms can be easily compromised. In fact, we have already seen several screeners being leaked from online sources. This was corroborated by pirate release group EVO last year.

"We had access to digital screeners and they are indeed easy to leak. The DRM on it is a joke. We had an account last year with three screeners on it and they were pretty much MP4 ready to encode," the EVO team informed us at the time.

Screener (promotional).

Related: First Leaked Screener of the Season: Unreleased Louis C.K. Film "I Love You, Daddy"


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Acabatag on Sunday May 03 2020, @02:16PM (1 child)

    by Acabatag (2885) on Sunday May 03 2020, @02:16PM (#989794)

    Its amazing how many people don't realize that almost all of television and cinema is actors faking something. The whole operation is an extended social scene of those annoying 'theatre' people we couldn't stand in High School.

    People swim in the depths of fantasy. If you watch 'the show' with the least amount of cynical skepticism it all falls apart and you realize it's just a bunch of those preening theatre types.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2020, @09:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2020, @09:05PM (#989907)

    Can't say that about "The Apprentice".