FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters
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Weirdly enough, DVDs are still by far the most popular physical format.
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Just goes to show how horrendous this sort of crime is. I hear dvd pirates are on the same cell blocks as pedophiles in prison.
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What? Really? I would have thought dvd pirates would have far worse conditions than pedophiles.
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Shhhhh, don't give them ideas!
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Plot twist. It was 1 zippo lighter, but it was a comically large one. It just weighs 20 lbs.
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I still buy them, but I prefer when it's a dvd/blueray/3D (if available) combo pack.
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How "Les Misérables" of them. Jean Valjean got 19 years for stealing bread. 15 years is light in comparison.
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At that point wouldn't it just be a really shitty flamethrower?
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Soon it became dangerous to download the movie, though, as popular demand for the movie quickly put a target on downloaders' backs and scammers soon planted malware in Spider-Man movie torrents that ReasonLabs reported used the movie to "lure in as many victims as possible."
ReasonLabs said that the malware was "likely from a Russian torrenting site." It took over the would-be Spider-Man movie watchers' computers without setting off Windows Defender and with the goal of cryptomining in the background for the bad actors' benefit.
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Some players might have vulnerabilities that people exploit; but honestly it's very rare, especially with most people auto updating their programs.
Most of the time it is indeed "download spider man no virus no survey 2023 free download.exe"
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The video itself is a set of instructions, and when a video player interprets those instructions there is a window of opportunity.
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He didn't get arrested for theft. He got arrested for being part of a distribution network that empowered Russian hackers.
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Honestly, yeah, he was enabling Russian Hackers.
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I'm okay with both. This guy was enabling a Russian Hacker network.
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He really wasn't. The media he distributed came with Russian malware.
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tldr: people using Windows can get duped into running what is basically a Powershell / Shortcut to pwn themselves
I cock blocked them with Qbit even though I don't use Windows
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stole "numerous 'pre-release' DVDs and Blu-rays" between February 2021 and March 2022. He then allegedly "ripped" the movies, "bypassing encryption that prevents unauthorized copying
How? Especially pre-release bluray?
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One is running some nobodies over, the other making a rich guy some pennies less rich.
Must set a precedent, y'know?
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Don't let it fool you. Serial pirates are the biggest enemy of mankind. We should strive together to make sure they get the penalty they deserve.
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Lol corporate enforcers paid by taxes
