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The New York Post shows a private screening of “The Passion of Christ” using a bootlegged copy of the movie.

bq.. Mel Gibson’s upcoming religious saga The Passion of Christ is at the centre of controversy again – but this time it has nothing to do with the film’s content and everything to do with the industry’s high-profile war on piracy.

Several Hollywood studio heads have worked themselves into a lather after The New York Post published a series of reviews based on a bootlegged version of the film.

The tabloid paper – owned by Rupert Murdoch – showed a video dub of the film to a rabbi, a priest, a religious studies professor, its own critic and a reader and printed their responses.

Paramount chair Sherry Lansing called the incident “appalling and unconscionable”, while Walt Disney Studios chief Dick Cook raged against what he called a “broken covenant between producers of motion pictures and the press”.

p. Don’t they watch the Piracy commericals at the movies? You know, the one with the set designer talking about the real victims of movie piracy?

p. [ Full Story @ Guardian Unlimited ]

p(small). Source: Guardian Unlimited

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