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Oscar Screener Leak Traced
EvilLiberalGuy writes "CNN has an article about a leak of a screener copy of 'Something's Gotta Give'. They are reporting that 'visible and hidden markings on the videocassette copy on the Internet identify it as the one sent to Carmine Caridi, a film and television actor'. Apparently this didn't stop the leak from happening in this case, but will it result in actions against Caridi and make others think twice before leaking films to the net?"
Action should be taken against those who release poor quality movies, such as "Gotta Give".
You're missing Something from the movie title...
...the bloody horse head watermark. I knew none of the standard release groups used such a watermark.
Seriously, supporting WMA -- at the very least unprotected WMA -- would be great for the iPod. Converting everything to MP3 or AAC would be a pain, and force yet another level of quality loss. I know a lot of people that have mixed MP3 and WMA libraries ripped from their own CDs. WMA9 VBR is pretty good and very, very fast to encode; I can understand why people use it. You are only going to increase iPod sales, not lose anything. OGG be nice, too... but that's even less popular. Wake up, HP... your products need to support a format that your existing PC products, like the "Windows Media Center", already support.
Nah, you can still find zero day screeners at Suprnova.org. I just saw Mystic River and Bad Santa a few weeks ago right here on my 'puter. The only way I could tell that they were screeners was every half hour or so, a line was on the bottom of the picture (completely unobtrusive) that said, "Screener only. Private property of Big Studio"