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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.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 03 2020, @02:29PM (4 children)
When you say "music industry", I have to pretty much agree with you. But, we need to leave room for music, for singers, and for musicians. Music, and dance, satisfy some powerful human needs. Without them, we would be something less than human.
Conservatard country music? I guess you don't realize that country music died long ago. It survived the death of folk music, but not for long. And, what does conservatism have to do with country? I guess you were just trying to be insulting. Whatever, music is important, music industry can die off tomorrow and I won't miss it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2020, @03:09PM (1 child)
And we must also leave room for actors, directors, writers. Room for good, creative, intelligent, tought-provoking, enternaining cinema. In other words: Everything Hollywood isn't.
As for "conservatard country music", yes, I was being slighly trollish. But you must not have visited any of the red states recently. Country music is far from dead there. It's basically all you hear, everywhere, all the time.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2020, @07:56PM
no, what he was saying is that that twangy pop shit you hear in tractor supply is not fucking country music.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday May 04 2020, @01:16AM
How to destroy the music industry while promoting music, in 3 steps:
1. Support non-record-giant musicians that you like financially. Chip in to their Patreons, buy their swag, go to their shows if they're performing locally, buy their CDs, hire them to perform if you're in a position to do that. That will enable musicians to stop trying to get signed with the record giants: Know that almost all of the musicians I've ever come across hate the record execs with a passion at least as great as The Pirate Bay, and will gladly avoid signing if they knew for sure they could make a good living without doing so.
2. Ignore whatever music is likely to find its way onto your radio. Don't buy it, don't watch it on Youtube, don't stream it on Spotify, don't even watch TV or other media talking about it. Because nothing kills them faster than lost profits.
3. Encourage everyone you know to do steps 1 and 2.
And sure, the RIAA weasels will start trying to pretend they're the first kind of musician. It won't work, because the proof will be in the legalese.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2020, @01:33AM
One of my dad's friends was a perpetual alcoholic from his teens until he died in his 60s. He embodied country music in the same way that Johnny Cash and company did, we have a few reels of songs he did. But none of his material ever got published. He spent most of his life working for the state with a passionate side-gig working at a public radio station where he played country, bluegrass and folk music both classic and from aspiring bands. Bluegrass is still surviving also, although it's mostly in its own holdout niches and music festivals that take place in different parts of the country.