Why aren’t more screeners up as torrents?
#1
Sorry for the relatively vague subject heading but what I was wondering was this:

I’ll read in the press about a US television show, (e.g. the “The Americans”) and the reviewer will write, at the start of a new season (or sometimes at the start of a series) that he’s received a screener of several episodes in advance of their air date. I assume that many screeners are sent to many reviewers (but maybe this isn’t a reasonable assumption)? But almost invariably, I find that none of these episodes ever find their way to torrents ahead of their air date.

Why is this? I’d reckon that the contents of at least a few of those screeners (or even just one) would find their way onto the internet. Or am I overestimating the number of screeners released for network and cable television shows in the US? Is it an uncommon practice? Or are these screeners somehow encoded so that the television networks can determine their origin? Is it just that there’s a tight lock-down on TV screeners because of ad revenue that has the potential to be lost? It seems relatively rare to find a copy of an advanced screener of TV show episodes on the net, especially compared to screeners of films.

I’ve been curious about this for a while, so thought I’d ask Smile
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#2
in order for a screener to be uploaded, a screener must first become available to someone who is not only able but willing to share it.

screeners can be encoded so the networks can determine their origin although i'm not sure if they are.
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