Rich Taylor, a spokesman for the Motion Picture Association, the studios' trade association, said he had not had a chance to examine the study.
The statement also detailed what appeared to be private details, including home address and birth dates, relating to the family of Chris Dodd, chief executive of the Hollywood studios' trade body, the Motion Picture Association of America.
The decision, first reported yesterday in Variety and The Los Angeles Times, comes three weeks after the Motion Picture Association of America, the major studios' trade group, announced that it would no longer provide screeners to Academy Award voters.
For studios, trade dues are generally the fees they pay to the Motion Picture Association of America, mostly to fight piracy all over the world -- nothing to do with the costs of any individual film, but some portion of those fees still gets charged against revenues.
In 1922, the studios' trade-and-lobbying group, the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association (which became the Motion Picture Association of America, in 1945), recruited the austere conservative Will H. Hays, who had been the Postmaster General during the Harding Administration, as its president.
The pair continued to hang out at each other's studios, trading work, and exchanging paintings for each other's sons, who are the same age.
But Bel Ami soon faced a common problem that plagues porn studios trading in questionably legal content – credit card processing companies became wary of handling their financial transactions.
Guadalupe's Hollywood golden era ended in the mid-1940s when studios traded the wilds of Santa Barbara County for location shooting in the Sahara and Middle East.
"There are 300 bands in Hull," said Mikey Scott, who runs a recording studio, Fruit Trade Music.
