The studios could solve this problem themselves. Release the films in wide release prior to sending out screeners.
They don't do this because they want to generate Oscar Buzz. SInce the media cycles have shortened this has pushed these releases from Christmas to weeks before the Oscars. So in exchange for generating Oscar buzz from nominations they risk putting out the screeners.
This is all on the studios and them trying to maximize the Oscar bump. Or the Oscars could fix it by saying you need wide release by x date instead of a few screens.
As for pirating the main concern is that pirating becomes mainstream. The techy people pirating doesn't matter its when in jumps over into everyone doing it like music did in the Napster days that it breaks business models. So the industry fights to make pirating difficult and morally wrong. Though it doesn't actually care about bad quality versions getting out.
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