FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters

[slopppyengineer@lemmy.world]

How "Les Misérables" of them. Jean Valjean got 19 years for stealing bread. 15 years is light in comparison.

[singletona@lemmy.world]

At that point wouldn't it just be a really shitty flamethrower?

[d00ery@lemmy.world]

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.

[captainbasculin@lemmy.ml]

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"

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

The video itself is a set of instructions, and when a video player interprets those instructions there is a window of opportunity.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

He didn't get arrested for theft. He got arrested for being part of a distribution network that empowered Russian hackers.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

Honestly, yeah, he was enabling Russian Hackers.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

I'm okay with both. This guy was enabling a Russian Hacker network.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

He really wasn't. The media he distributed came with Russian malware.

[ladfrombrad@lemdro.id]

https://lemm.ee/post/43529674

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

https://lemdro.id/post/15143286

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

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?

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

One is running some nobodies over, the other making a rich guy some pennies less rich.

Must set a precedent, y'know?

[anotherpenguin@programming.dev]

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.

[splashjackson@lemmy.ca]

Lol corporate enforcers paid by taxes

[ozymandias117@lemmy.world]

If they're being shared as disk images, basically every Blu-Ray has an embedded Java program, also

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD-J

[ivanafterall@lemmy.world]

They should demand thorough answers from this vigilante and put them on YouTube so all the world understands not to do this!

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

No, i mean, bluray encryption is partly bound to keys and the player. Even blurays from 2020 often fail with libbluray and a newish player. I see no way to rip a pre-release bluray.