While the latter was leaked in October, the other titles were in yesterday’s batch. Paramount sent DVD screeners to Academy voters in December and the movie leaked yesterday.Īlso battling it out for Oscar glory are Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, Unbroken directed by Angelina Jolie, and crime thriller Nightcrawler. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. Both were leaked yesterday.Īlso tipped for Best Picture is “ Selma“, a chronicle of Dr.

Their ‘absolute locks’ for Best Picture include “ Birdman” (Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis) and “ The Imitation Game” (Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley). Yesterday, Indiewire published their Oscar predictions. It was hours of work, but its finally done and here for you to get!” “Movie had watermarks visible and invisible ones, had to remove frames to get rid of them,” CM8 said. Whether that is CM8 remains unclear but in a comment the group revealed that a lot of time was spent removing security watermarks from Peter Jackson’s movie. But despite the apparent selection, sources inform TorrentFreak that there is only one true source. Several ‘versions’ of the movie exist on torrent sites, each labeled by rival release groups including CM8, EVO, TiTAN, Ozlem and RAV3N. Statistics gathered by TorrentFreak reveal that the movie was downloaded at least 500,000 times in the first 24 hours. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is proving exceptionally popular with BitTorrent users. The Hobbit is a smash hit – without watermarks Over the past 24 hours copies of at least nine big movies leaked online in decent quality, all apparently sourced from industry DVD screeners. December and January are the key months for leaks and yesterday downloaders hit the jackpot.

Every year copies of DVD screeners (identified by the term DVDSCR) turn up on torrent sites and are downloaded in huge numbers. Often in DVD format (but now also in Blu-ray), these high quality releases are much sought after online and as a result are subjected to intense security by the studios sending them out.īut despite all the efforts, leaks always happen. Movies recorded surreptitiously in cinemas with home-made rigs can produce reasonable results but nothing beats the sparkle of a digital copy.įilling that gap are DVD screeners, the advance copies of recent movies sent out to critics and awards voters. While some pirates are content with downloading and viewing so-called ‘cam’ releases of the latest movies, few will be happy with the quality.

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