How the Oscars leaked online, for the past 6 years

Waxy's Andy Baio's got a monster chart showing how, when and where the Oscar nominees linked onto the net -- showing on a film-by-film movie whether the leak was from a screener, a camcorder capture, a DVD rip, etc. He's been doing this for six years, so he's got lots of nice longitudinal data on the trends in Oscar piracy. Link


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Pretty interesting, I'd like to know more about how a screener gets from an academy award previewer to the internet though.
If it's watermarked like they say it is, it seems a bit risky.
Interesting nontheless
some are r5, not dvdscr. and i'm sure there's a lot of screeners watermarked (if at all) in such a way that it's easy to remove or pretty pointless, hence not revealing who the leak is. sometimes the dvdr is available soon enough or something, and those are definitely preferable.