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Just curious, what is a “screener” and what is the website
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Around Academy Award voting time the movies up for awards are still in the theatres so the studios send out DVDs to the Academy members so they can screen the movies in the comfort of their own home. In spite of a slew of safeguards that gets tougher every year copies of the movies get leaked to the Internet so you have a dvd quality movie to watch at home for free. The website listed is one where you can watch it online, fine if you have a decent connection. There are also private sites that post a downloadable torrent so you get the entire movie on your hard drive and are more flexible with your options. Torrents are better if you have a nosy internet provider.

Torrents are markers that connect you with seeders, people who already have the movie on their hard drives. The actual website has no content and the movie is spread out over hundreds of places so if one goes down another immediately takes its place. That makes it darn near impossible to shut down. Torrents are doing to the movie industry what mp3s did to the music industry except that Hollywood can't go on tour to make money doing live performances of their work.

That is the 5 cent explanation of screeners and torrents. A search can always help if you want more details.

Levidia is an online movie aggregator website based in Switzerland. A screener is a DVD of a feature movie that was sent out to movie critics prior to the release in theaters.