American Gangster leaked online one week before release

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For anyone that cares, this is wrong. Right now is getting into some of the best time to pirate movies because monvies that come out in theaters are also instantly put on DVD to send to award voters to watch. Although it's extremely illegal and someone got busted for big bucks a few years ago (I believe it was for one of the LOTR movies), they always end up online.

[/ QUOTE ] Ok sorry. Up until this movie for the past 3 years no movies have been released with a dvd rip quality before it was in theatres or even a month after it was in theaters. Most are released a month before the DVD is released. Whether this trend changes, it may, but as of right now thats how its been untl American Gangster.

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Totally agree with you.

Back in 2000-2002 or so it was very common to get DVD screeners right around the time (or slightly before) movies came out in theaters.

Lately this hasn't been happening. They've been EXTREMELY controlled and they rarely make it out before opening weekend.

I wouldn't be surprised if they were even going so far as to individually watermark DVDs so they know exactly who to blame when it gets pirated.

It's becoming reasonably common now to get the captures straight from projectors (the audio, at least) and to shoot video from the projection booth. Some of these telesync releases look near DVD quality.

With the recent advent of R5 retail dvd releases, however, the goal is to release the dvd retail at the same time as the DVD screeners so that they effectively beat the pirates to market.