Posted by Modemac on 01/25/06 18:47

> 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?

Not only that, but a member of the Academy was kicked out and forced to
resign his membership last year, because he passed on a DVD copy of an
Oscar screener to a friend and that friend promptly put the movie onto
the Internet.

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