Yet another story of the many doing the rounds at the moment of reviewers and award judges being treated poorly to halt pre release leaks from industry insider "theives"
http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-voice-overs-080111/Recently, more and more CDs are being protected by voice-overs to prevent these albums from leaking to the public before the official release date. The voice-overs are pretty effective, but there is a downside, they start to annoy reviewers and even start to affect album ratings.
The voice overs do their job, because of their inferior quality none of these albums are uploaded to the Internet. However, they also make it harder for the reviewers to do their job if the music fades out every other minute.
The movie and the music industry are treating their own people as thieves now. Last week we reported about a 17 year Oscar screening veteran, who resigned because he had enough of being treated like a criminal. Similarly, the annoying voice-over anti-piracy messages are becoming a thorn in the side of music reviewers.
Lets look at that report also.
http://torrentfreak.com/oscars-veteran-resigns-over-dvd-screener-piracy-threat-080105/Successful actor and Academy member Britt Leach says he was “so very proud to be a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences” when he was accepted over 17 years ago. How things have changed.
“I’ve always been very happy to receive these screeners; they have made me feel very important.” says Britt. “The Academy Awards! I would sit in front of our TV and play the tape or DVD and make notes on a legal pad; I would write the name of a film or actor that might deserve to be nominated. And then when the ballots came I would vote.” He admits to taking his “responsibility very seriously” - a great member it seems.
Then people got more paranoid about piracy: “So a legal document was sent out to members of the Academy that we all had to sign. By signing it we promised that we would never allow anybody to take possession of our screeners for any reason, and that we would be very careful with them.” He continues: “Anyway, I signed it even though it made me feel strange, like a criminal or something.
“I mean what would happen to me and my family if one of my screeners got into the wrong hands and was duplicated and they were able to trace it back to me? Would Interpol, the FBI, come and get me? What about my wife? My cats? It made me very worried. I could go to prison. I mean what if somebody broke into my apartment? Or what if somebody who happened to be working here one day decided to steal one of my screeners? I could go to prison.”
Well, well, poor old Brett he has had to reisgn from the academy due to not being able to afford the thousands of extra dollars screener protection expenses on his pension, he felt sad , I suppose I feel sad for this nice guy too, but whatever side of the fence your on it seems the Cartel will label everyone a theif before putting any effort into tracing the real theives who its well known are corrupt industry insiders who look to blame file sharers for their woes, forgetting the fact the original material has to come from their own ranks and pretty high up too, to not have the warnings and spoiler mechanisms employed on those being sent to reviewers.
