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Screening Pirates

Published September 30, 2003 at 10:00 PM MDT

Academy Award voters will have to catch most of their movies in theaters. The Motion Picture Association of America implemented a ban to keep studios from sending copies of Oscar contenders to Academy members in an effort to stop piracy.

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