Posted by shawn on 01/25/06 16:45

On 25 Jan 2006 07:10:51 -0800, "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
wrote:

>Not that anyone would abuse the situation, but right now, because of
>the Oscars coming, the movies binaries groups are flooded with high
>quality copies of DVD "review screeners" of damn near every movie that
>came out in 2005, including many that are not available for rental yet.


Wasn't there supposed to be a move to some sort of secure release of
DVD screeners? Seems that I recall a mention of special players being
sent to each reviewer with keyed copies of the DVDs so that if someone
copied them it would be possible to uniquely identify the source. Did
that not happen, or just not yet?

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