jack's other "terrorist war"
So many thought Mr. Valenti's move to ban the distribution of Oscar nominated films on DVD was about reenforcing the power of the major studios. Maybe. But as I suggested, and as Stefan Bechtold reminds me, there's actually great data to support the idea that the movie piracy problem emergers with "insiders." See this empirical paper by people from AT&T (including Lorrie Cranor). Maybe the MPAA can get the RIAA to prosecute these "insiders" for them?
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The "insiders" are usually members of the press who get advanced copies to review and end up selling them or giving them away. Giving them out for people to vote for the Academy Awards is not nearly as risky as releasing complete copies to the press.
In this case, the MPAA is over-reacting to the fact that anyone with a camera and a laptop can make a movie, and produce copies or release it on the net. Just as with the RIAA, they haven't figured out yet that information/art is digital and will stay that way. The control over the market, the artists and the product that they depended on is a thing of the past. Their energy would be better spent trying to adapt their business model to work with the new technology rather than fight it.
I believe Mr. Valenti is somewhat dilusional if he thinks by inhibiting 'giveaways' to the academy awards voters he will stop piracy. People will still manage to get their hands on the major blockbusters. What this will accomplish is damn the Indies to obscurity.
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