The Social Network, the story of the founding of social networking website Facebook, has taken an important step towards Oscar success today after winning four awards from the US National Society of Film Critics. The film was named best picture, while David Fincher was named best director, Aaron Sorkin won best screenplay and Jessie Eisenberg [...]
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Disney Encrypting Screener DVDs to Prevent Piracy
Still having last years Oscar controversy in mind, where one judge handed out copies to a person he thought was another film buff. This person unfortunately decided to copy and spread the films on the internet.
The DVD screeners that Disney will send to the groups that vote on the awards will be encrypted and will only run on dvd players made by Cinea, who are specially designed to thwart copying the screeners.
