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...Christmas Eve, another copy of Samurai appeared online and was traced back to a screener that had been sent to Oscar voters. Since Warner Bros. gave out only VHS copies, the bootleg was not of great quality. But its existence is an embarrassment after a year of high-profile debate over the risks of screeners--a beloved industry perk. Valenti of the M.P.A.A. had pushed hard to fight piracy by banning all screeners outright. But independent studios complained the ban would penalize small movies trying to get award nominations. In December the U.S. district court overturned the ban. Last week...
...received an early work print. He didn't have much interest in the movie, but he knew that if he put it online, the more-exclusive chat groups would let him pull down other, better films. "I don't like paying for movies," he says. So he digitized the VHS copy and then used basic editing software to block the "Property of Universal" crawl running across the screen, along with a serial number. Aware that what he was doing was wrong, he vacillated for three days before posting The Hulk to a server in the Netherlands. "So many people...
Today’s waste audit, and watching (vicariously) a VHS tape found in the trash, labeled “Gig-1,” in the Cabot library (see Wednesday’s Crimson for explanation...
...this opportunity to expand their movie collections for all undergraduate students of film. Currently, many films are only offered in a format—35 milimeter for example—that can only be played on-site with the proper, expensive equipment. Copies of films in formats such as VHS and DVD would allow students more viewing freedom. A track within VES would help highlight that films are not just diversions for students when they are not poring over Joyce and Pinsky but are objects of study themselves...
Four-piece VHS or Beta plays all disco, all the time. With two guitars, drums and bass, these four young men from Louisville will put le funk back into your life. Also adding some boogie into your night are Your Enemies Friends and Moving Units. $9. 9 p.m. The Middle East, 472-480 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...