Yes it turns out that some of Hollywood’s presumably most prestigious individuals, those who vote for Oscars, Golden Globes, and such movie awards are providing master copies for illegal video/DVD producers.
How do they get one? Make a cheap copy with a camera at a screening? Sneak a copy out of the post-production studio? Nope! The studios mail out high-quality DVDs, thousands of them, so the voters can watch in the comfort of their own home, rather than have to mix with the great unwashed (us) at a real theater. Some of these DVDs have now been traced as the direct source of bootleg copies. And if that’s proven in some cases, imagine how many more times it’s true but unproven.
Home digital technology is going to destroy the industry? Bullshit. If their controls on their products are so lax, then they simply can’t believe that the problem is all that serious.
Worse than the MPAA ban is the horrible Crap Code “dots” they are placing on copies to track piracy. I kept seeing them during Kill Bill and they were really annoying.
Yep. Happens a lot. I have a copy of LOTR TTT on my PC that every now and then “FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION” comes up at the bottom of the scene. There’s several movies like this I have and more I’ve seen.
So it happens and pricks like me look at them(witout paying a cent mind )
Not true, I was saying to Johnny Depp only the other day, “Johnny,” I said, “Tell Keanu to tell Quentin to close his mouth when he eats his popcorn, it’s just not nice to chew that way.”
Piracy my arse! This is more bull crap from Hollywood.
It’s a power grab for awards votes. If an independent film gets an award nomination, let alone wins an award, at the Oscars–maybe the public will spend money to see that film, instead of some overblown, dumbed down, formulaic, piece of garbage, Hollywood blockbuster that needs to open with a multi-million dollar weekend to ever expect to break even on covering it’s production budget.
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