The Washington Post is reporting that Executives at Hollywood’s art-house studios — which released movies like last year’s Oscar winner “The Pianist” and the previous year’s “Monster’s Ball” — were nothing short of hysterical over this week’s decision by the Motion Picture Association of America to ban the sending of “screeners” in the upcoming awards season.
The free copies are sent out to voters to encourage them to watch films they might otherwise overlook, but the MPAA and its seven major member studios decided that in a climate of growing digital piracy, they needed to rein in the distribution of free, unmonitored movies.
Looks like the smaller studios, in many cases owned by bigger studios, are upset the MPAA’s decision to limit distribution of early DVD screeners. Can we expect them to start leaking their movies to P2P networks so they get seen by reviewers?
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