“Finally first quality release, we do think this is a hot title and we decided to share it with the public,” the group wrote in a pretty brazen release note for La La Land, encouraging other Oscar insiders to share their treasure.
A week before the 2017 Oscar nominations are announced, HD versions of the big contenders have once again leaked online.
One of these inevitably finds its way onto torrent sites for each film, and a quick look shows that La La Land, Arrival, Moonlight, Silence, Lion, Jackie and more are all now available to pirate.
This happens pretty much every year now and is down to the fact that all voters are sent DVD screeners of the films in contention.