MPAA Routed In War On Screener Piracy
With all of the effort that the MPAA put into efforts to stop awards-season movie screeners from leaking onto the Internet (like suing pirates back into the Betamax era and issueing magical DVD players that can only play enchanted discs), you'd think that movie piracy had finally been stomped out. But we can't declare a Golden Age of Respected Copyrights just yet. Waxy.org has compiled a list of every Oscar-nominated film and the date on which intellectual-property-raping pirates leaked their booty onto the Net. Waxy claims that only five nominees escaped uploading, but reader comments in the post reduce that number to one: The Phantom of the Opera, a movie Joel Schumacher couldn't pay anyone to steal.
Next year, look for the MPAA to skip the litigation and go straight to the retaliatory sodomy of any Academy member caught loaning out a screener to their parents. It's their only hope.
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