{"id":143773,"date":"2010-01-06T04:15:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T09:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/06\/sony-wont-support-its-own-movie-for-an-oscar-over-misplaced-piracy-fears-voices\/"},"modified":"2010-01-06T04:15:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T09:15:53","slug":"sony-won%e2%80%99t-support-its-own-movie-for-an-oscar-over-misplaced-piracy-fears-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/143773","title":{"rendered":"Sony Won\u2019t Support Its Own Movie For An Oscar Over Misplaced Piracy Fears [Voices]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>By Mike Masnick, Editor, Techdirt<\/p>\n<p>One of Jack Valenti&#8217;s final battles while still in charge of the MPAA was his silly, misguided war on DVD screeners. Screeners are copies of the movie (on DVD, obviously) that are sent out to people to view (to &#8220;screen&#8221;) for awards shows and the like. Valenti freaked out that since these screeners went out before the official DVDs were out, they would lead to people uploading them online, creating a piracy problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091231\/1109367563.shtml\">Read the rest of this post on the original site<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.allthingsd.com\/20100106\/sony-wont-support-its-own-movie-for-an-oscar-over-misplaced-piracy-fears\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mike Masnick, Editor, Techdirt One of Jack Valenti&#8217;s final battles while still in charge of the MPAA was his silly, misguided war on DVD screeners. Screeners are copies of the movie (on DVD, obviously) that are sent out to people to view (to &#8220;screen&#8221;) for awards shows and the like. Valenti freaked out that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}