Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and its CEO/President Jack Valenti have taken a new measure against ”digital piracy”. September 30, MPAA announced that the member companies of the MPAA and their subsidiaries plus DreamWorks and New Line would not send out any screeners for awards consideration purposes. No screeners are to be mailed, whether they have been released in home video/DVD or not.

The following are the companies involved:

DreamWorks
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.
New Line
Paramount Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Twentieth Century Fox
Universal Studios
The Walt Disney Company
Warner Bros. Pictures