It only seems to get easier to download movies illegally. Andy Baio from Waxy has put together piracy data for Oscar-nominated movies for the past 6 years. The dataset includes the US release date and then when (and how) the movie was eventually leaked soon after.
Download the CSV or Excel file below.
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Oops, thanks. Fixed.
Hey, Andy from Waxy.org here. I'm a huge fan of the FlowingData community's past work, so this is very exciting for me. If there's any questions you have about the data, or additional information you'd like in the spreadsheet, let me know. I'll be keeping a close eye on this thread.
Happy go lucky (2009) had a dvd leak two months before it was released in theatres?
And there are 56 movies with leaked screener before they were released. Is that possible?
It happens more often than you would think. Movies like Curious Case of Benjamin Button come out so close to the Oscar cut off, that their screeners are out a month, sometimes two before the film is in wide release.
It also happens a lot when films are released internationally first. Films like "Taken" which is just hitting theaters today have been available on Blu-Ray since mid-October and had their screener pirated last April.
I just re-read my question and it's not clear - I meant screener leaks before the _screener_ was released.
hadley: That's a great question, which I've talked about on some of my earlier yearly reports. Basically, not every screener leak is an Academy screener... It may be a screener sent months before Oscar time to critics, distributors, or judges for other awards.
The "Screener Release" column is the date that an Academy member received his screeners, and the "Screener Leak" is the date that any screener first leaked to the Internet.
The piracy scene almost never states where the screeners come from, so it's impossible for me to tell whether the leaked screener was an official Academy screener or not. On my Statistics sheet, I try to make a best guess by only counting screeners that leaked online after the official Academy screener date. (There was an error in my "# Academy screeners leaked (probable)" column, which is now fixed.)
Only 93 out of 165 screeners were leaked after the Academy screener release date, so there should be a total of 72 screeners that were leaked on or before the date Academy screeners were received.
Is it ok to find more data to add to my visualization?
Here's a first quick attempt to display the raw data - the vertical line represents the ceremony date. I've only included the data for 2009 so it doesn't completely overwhelm the page.
A couple of things that jump out at me:
My next step is to start working on more aggregate displays that allow us to make comparisons between years.
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waxpancake: Sorry - forgot to thank you for the extra info. Thanks! It's very helpful for understanding the data
@jld - yeah, incorporate all the data you want
Vaguely relevant... where the pirates are: http://geo.keff.org/
I guess this was too hard or something... shucks :( There was so much buzz around the first one...
Yeah, I was disappointed too.
I have created on Zoho a simple line chart of Average Leaks per Year. Also a Excel based column bar chart on the same.
One observation from the data is that Average US release to Screener Leak was always more than the average US release to First Leak.
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