I was recently thinking about the simultaneous release concept for movies, and trying to work out how to limit the piracy rates and I came to this conclusion. First there is no way to stop the cam versions of movies and screeners. But in regards to rips from dvd and blurays, I've noticed that on average rips from the actual retail copies don't start appearing for download till about 2 weeks prior to release in stores. Which sounds like the stores are receiving the shipment of discs in advance to allow time for all stores to receive shipments for same day launch and employees are ripping and leaking the movies. So if studios wanted to try the release concept and limit piracy they just need to cut the shipping time to 1 week then release the disc version after 3 weeks of the movie being in theaters. This would give the movies 2 weeks of theater time/profits (which is usually the time a movie is most seen) then lead into disc sales on week 3. I bet this would stop people from buying cams and screeners and cut out a week of downloads. Anyways love the show keep up the good work.
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I was recently thinking about the simultaneous release concept for movies, and trying to work out how to limit the piracy rates and I came to this conclusion. First there is no way to stop the cam versions of movies and screeners. But in regards to rips from dvd and blurays, I've noticed that on average rips from the actual retail copies don't start appearing for download till
about 2 weeks prior to release in stores. Which sounds like the stores are receiving the shipment of discs in advance to allow time for all stores to receive shipments for same day launch and employees are ripping and leaking the movies. So if studios wanted to try the release concept and limit piracy they just need to cut the shipping time to 1 week then release the disc version after 3 weeks of the movie being in theaters. This would give the movies 2 weeks of theater time/profits (which is usually the time a movie is most seen) then lead into disc sales on week 3. I bet this would stop people from buying cams and screeners and cut out a week of downloads. Anyways love the show keep up the good work.