Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] SiCKO

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike.   Movie companies _always_ release preview copies of movies to 
film critics, newspaper reviewers and places like Insider Edition and E! 
and such.  They also do test screenings which sometimes result in parts 
of the movie being changes... I.e., there have been in the recent past, 
movies that have entirely different endings because the screening 
audience was so antagonistic towards the original ending.

Like the article stated, these are watermarked and individually 
identifiable.

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Jack Smith wrote:
>
> > The most interesting part of the article is that the movie that was 
> > uploaded was not filmed with a camcorder in a movie theater or 
> > extracted from a rental or retail DVD but was AN INSIDE JOB. And yet 
> > the studios try to push such stupid and horrible legislation and DRM 
> > schemes when the answer to stopping much of the unauthorized releases 
> > is something that must be combatted internally within their own ranks.
> >
> > The studios likely very well know where the stuff is coming from and 
> > would rather try to hoodwink the legislators into letting them get 
> > more and more control that's currently illegal under the Software 
> > Copyright Act of 1976 than actually fight the problem. It's a very 
> > shrewd maneuver on their part, but it also speaks volumes at how 
> > oblivious and idiotic the legislators and some in the general public 
> > and media are in believing it.
>
>
> They made DVDs and gave them to people.  They must have seen this 
> coming. I'm not saying that they wanted it to happen, but they could 
> have avoided it if they really wanted to.
>
> Mike
>
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