Pirated 'DVD Screeners' Will be History After Next Year's Oscars (torrentfreak.com) 44
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Academy has announced 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 of the past.
For Your Consideration... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:For Your Consideration... (Score:5, Insightful)
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yeah I know, The Matrix seemed really deep when I was like 20 but in retrospect it's just trenchcoats and special eff...
wait. you're saying The Matrix was a substantial film with a good story?
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I have seen the (just one) "sequel". It's a pretty awesome car chase scene. Shame that's all there was, it could have been an interesting feature-length movie.
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Funny story, I was 22 when I watched it with a friend. He loved it so much. I was like, they had to use all those effects to achieve what Dark City did last year just with its atmosphere/sets/cinematography. Plus I had watched Ghost in the Shell. So I found it entertaining, some great new effects, but not that special. I mean if you want to talk about the effects themselves, they were definitely less impressive to me than e.g. when I saw T2 and Jurassic Park when those had come out. My friend tells me "can'
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When you realise the whole film is just dragging out the very simple concept of the "allegory of the cave" to 90 mins, throw in some goth aethestics, a bit of "cyber slang" ( does anyone other than sad old politicians use the word "cyber" anymore? ), some movie kung-fu moves and a few gunfights. It's a fun sci-fi movie for a Saturday night and kids love it first time they see it, it's not a life changing movie like some are.
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The concept of a secret cold war going on in the real world was pretty cool.
Even the sequels had some good ideas, they just completely botched the execution. Instead of showing the philosophical ideas affecting the characters they just had monologues. They ditched the secret cold war aspect too and just started blowing up cities.
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Not anymore. But back in the day the difference between a handicam bootleg and a proper DVD release was many months. That's what made DVD screeners so popular, they came out long before the DVD release.
These days? It's only a matter of a few weeks after the cinema run before you end up with a WebDL rip at top quality.
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Cam bootlegs are becoming less common. It seems that theatres have got better at stopping them. The current early release favourite is the Korean sub.
For some reason movies get released in Korea with hard coded subtitles (i.e. they are burned into the image, not supplied as text that the device overlays) quite early and in good quality. A lot of people can put up with the Korean writing at the bottom of the screen.
Sounds like it will all be coming to an end anyway thanks to C19 forcing early streaming relea
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That will probably still be in the rip of the stream that replaces the discs.
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Or ultimately a high quality video of the stream.
The only good thing about the Oscars... (Score:3, Insightful)
The Academy Awards shows are self-congratulating piles of steaming dog poo as "entertainers" and "hosts" glad-hand each other.
Generally if a movie wins an "Academy" (not a real academy) award it means politics prevailed... not that it's a super awesome movie.
The only good part of it is the screeners, which let the rest of us watch the movie without all the crap.
As usual, Hollywood, tone-deaf to Coronavirus, closed theaters, people who are tired of their self-congratulatory handjobs, etc. wants to eliminate those.
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The Academy Awards shows are self-congratulating piles of steaming dog poo as "entertainers" and "hosts" glad-hand each other.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but that's just you opining the matter and then thrusting such onto everyone else that didn't ask for it. And for the most part I wouldn't even care to say something till I hit this.
As usual, Hollywood, tone-deaf to Coronavirus, closed theaters, people who are tired of their self-congratulatory handjobs, etc. wants to eliminate those.
Theater operators aren't the same person as those who are in Hollywood. I have no idea what point you're trying to make at this point in your comment. Yes, Hollywood is tone-deaf to a lot of things. Shocker. But they're not the ones that ultimately closed the theaters, there was plenty of now p
Re:The only good thing about the Oscars... (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh, it wasnt because they were ordered to shut down by government, and face arrest of they didnt? Continue to face arrest if they open up tomorrow?
I live in Tennessee. My Governor was late to the shutdown party. Guess what? Nobody was going to the movies before the shutdown. Last day I actually went into the office before the shutdown, I went into Subway to get a sub. Nobody in the place at 12:45, and that Subway wasn't out of the way. It was adjacent to like forty some odd businesses. I-24 was dead weeks before the shutdown and it's usually a terror to drive on. I'm sorry that doesn't vibe with your tinfoil 4chan friends. But the economy was heading into a tailspin long before my State decided to shut the shit down and I suspect that my little neck of the woods Tennessee isn't some unique case here.
I honestly do not understand you people. Surely you know that you are full of shit here. There is no way that you dont. So that makes you a fucking liar. Just stop.
It's real simple. I actually work and have to go outside on a regular basis. Apparently you chill out in your mom's basement and spew conspiracy theories, so I understand how it's difficult for you to have any real knowledge of what's going on outside. But seriously, just fucking look outside. My state is "opened" and I can tell you, nobody is getting out. You don't have to be a rocket scientist, you just have to open your damn eyes. Perhaps a little less 4chan and voat and you'll be able to see it too?
That's what gets me so upset here. Is that there's all these dumb fucks like yourself that think "Oh well some powerful Government person said everything is okay, so now we should be good to go." And it is nothing like that. A pandemic is a fucking disaster, just like a hurricane, fire storm, or tornado. And just like those events, someone just telling everyone "Hey we're all good!" isn't going to fix shit. What it really is, is all these government heads knowing how much it is really going to cost to fix things and trying to take a hard pass on it. Because they don't want to fix it, especially if the Federal government is taking the hardest of hard passes on doing shit.
So you sit there and you think that big man or woman up in the Governor's House is the cause for all of this. And I'm going to tell you, this shit was going to happen be there a shelter in place order or not. And it would have been a lot worse if the Government just stayed mum about it, because then all that crazy ass panic would have been fueled by dumb shits like you spreading rumors and BS. So you go blame whoever the fuck you want to blame but that doesn't it make it one lick of real. People were exiting the economy in droves and the shelter in place orders were just a forgone conclusion to the US economy. That's the fucking reality I saw from a state that hesitated as absolutely long as they could. And it's going to take a lot more, a whole fuck lot more than just lifting shelter in place orders to fix this shit because it was a whole lot more than those orders that started this.
I just don't understand why the fuck you're giving the people who need to fix this shit a free pass? I guess maybe you don't pay taxes from your mom's basement, so you don't have as much a stake in the game here. But yeah this dumb shit you're spewing is just giving cover to the folks that need to fix this shit. Congrats, you're being a great pawn.
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I live in Tennessee. My Governor was late to the shutdown party. Guess what? Nobody was going to the movies before the shutdown.
I live in Europe. My country was about 2 weeks behind most others with the shutdown. We even had comical cases of people coming across the borders just to eat out because restaurants in their own countries were closed.
Cinemas were packed like normal.
The day they announced public gathering restrictions they also announced Cinema patronage is limited to 100 people, cinemas sessions were sold out a good week in advance. That lasted continuously until they announced they were completely closed.
Cinemas are allow
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So. Do you understand "you people" any better now?
Re: The only good thing about the Oscars... (Score:2)
I always like to point to which movie won best original score against The Good The Bad and the Ugly as an example of how naff the Oscars really are. If I played the sound track to the winner that year most people would have not a clue, it was piffle frankly. Play the Extisy of Gold or the title song and well my point proven.
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I always like to point to which movie won best original score against The Good The Bad and the Ugly as an example of how naff the Oscars really are. If I played the sound track to the winner that year most people would have not a clue, it was piffle frankly. Play the Extisy of Gold or the title song and well my point proven.
I love that film and score... But I would blame an unfortunate release schedule before politics. With an Italian release date of 12/23/1966 it was competing against The Sound of Music and Dr Zhivago (winner). The Oscars have always been very USA centric and I don't think it was even on anyone's Oscar RADAR in 1966/1967 and it was never nominated. If the rules allowed it to be considered based on the US release date of January 1968 it would have been competing against that years winner Thoroughly Modern Mill
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Most of the oscars, especially the technical ones, are like that.
Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress and the like are the only ones that really matter, the technicals are just to awar
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Playing a soundtrack without the movie isn't really a good way to judge a good soundtrack. A good movie soundtrack should complement the movie. This may mean that it is good on its own or it could mean that it needs the context of the movie to make it a great soundtrack. There is a ton of music that sounds great in the context of a movie that I wouldn't ever bother to listen to on its own.
Do the Oscars always select what I think of as the best soundtrack (or movie, or actor, or screenplay, etc.) every year?
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You keep using that word ... (Score:2)
The safest conclusion, for now, is that piracy will likely remain a problem no matter what the distribution platform is.
I don't see any "problem" here.
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Hollywood even found a "solution" to that problem -- make the movie suck [youtube.com] SO bad [youtube.com] that people don't even want to pirate them! /s
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The problem is counting copies stolen by people who couldn't afford your product in the first place as lost sales.
A lot of people are as moral as they can afford to be. Disney in particular really caters to the top 20% of the market and doesn't give a damn about the bottom 80% of the market.
Whats a DVDScr? (Score:1)
Is that like what the cool kids called WebDL rips back in the 90s?
Re:Whats a DVDScr? (Score:4, Insightful)
Back then it was VCD and SVCD rips.
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Hours to download? How about days to make? My first ever own SVCD* rip took 5 days to encode on a K6-233 back in 1998!
*SVCD is half-DVD resolution MPEG2 - usually 30-40 mins per CD. VCD is quite fast to encode in comparison as a quarter-DVD resolution MPEG1 (74/80 min/CD).
They must have seen (Score:2)
Curb Your Enthusiasm...
It will only make work easier. (Score:1)
Jusr like streaming made recompression nearly obsolete, as now you can simply not delete the file that is downloaded (aka "streamed"), keep it, and share it as "webrip".
(Be sure to filter out all metadata.)
Also stop saying "pirated". They are not seafaring, nor stealing. Copying is not like stealing but like telling a secret. And thinking you can tell the whole world your secret for money, and somhow still keep the secret, because billing by the actual work hour/job won't allow you to steal money from artis
Wait, what? (Score:2)
It isn't as though "streaming" is some "new-fangled thing" or "bleeding edge technology."
It isn't as though the studios haven't all rushed to get into the streaming business themselves...
So how come, in 2020, studio are still sending out review copies on Bluray or DVD at all? Didn't they get the memo?
If this is a genuine story - and neither clickbait or fabrication - then the shareholders of the main