I can appreciate that point of view, Mark, but I think that horse was out of the stable a *long* time ago. I can understand, for example, why Joel Schumacher was pissed that Harry Knowles was telling people that test audiences hated ‘Batman & Robin’. But the other side of the coin is we live in a media world today where draft scripts, on-set rumors and insider reports, illicit photos and video films in production, hilarious audio of Christian Bale going apeshit, etc., are all part of the milieu of the film industry these days.

If you look at another content industry, for example, reviews and commentary on unreleased music tracks happens all the time, much to the chagrin of the artists. When tracks from ‘Chinese Democracy’ were leaked on the Internet, for example, many sites reviewed them and Rolling Stone provided a handy guide to them. Nobody got fired.

Sucks to be the artist whose stuff gets leaked prematurely, but we can’t un-release that stuff and the work print that was released itself becomes a cultural artifact worthy of analysis and review as much as the finished product (esp. in this case where the workprint is apparently missing scenes from the reshoot that has been the focus of a conflict between the studio and the director).