FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters
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Lol corporate enforcers paid by taxes
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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.
If they're being shared as disk images, basically every Blu-Ray has an embedded Java program, also
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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?
They should demand thorough answers from this vigilante and put them on YouTube so all the world understands not to do this!
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They should demand thorough answers from this vigilante and put them on YouTube so all the world understands not to do this!
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.
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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.
MakeMKV? I don't understand.
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Honestly, yeah, he was enabling Russian Hackers.
Thankfully your banjo playing days are finite.
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DVDs?? is this article from 2006?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say this company that makes DVDs probably also makes Blu-Ray discs.
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Thankfully your banjo playing days are finite.
This isn't a "piracy is bad" comment, this guy in particular was feeding media specifically to a group that repackaged malware into it.
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This isn't a "piracy is bad" comment, this guy in particular was feeding media specifically to a group that repackaged malware into it.
Do you have a source for that? This article does not say that at all. It simply says that the person in question ripped Spider-Man Far From Home, that movie specifically was available from a lot of different users and locations, also had some cases where it had dangerous malware packaged, and that could have come from a Russian torrenting site. Nothing links this person directly to that malware or Russians at all.
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Do you have a source for that? This article does not say that at all. It simply says that the person in question ripped Spider-Man Far From Home, that movie specifically was available from a lot of different users and locations, also had some cases where it had dangerous malware packaged, and that could have come from a Russian torrenting site. Nothing links this person directly to that malware or Russians at all.
The article says
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.
It could be that the article is misquoting people and displaying a Bias, but I wouldn't know.
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The article says
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.
It could be that the article is misquoting people and displaying a Bias, but I wouldn't know.
Right, but that specifically is not linking Steven Hale. So your original assertion that he is selling/supporting Russian malware is not substantiated by this article.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say this company that makes DVDs probably also makes Blu-Ray discs.
You can just say bluray, disc is implied
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there goes my hero
Watch him as he goes.
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MakeMKV? I don't understand.
With libredrive flashed on your player. Let the player decrypt for you, and then copy the decrypted stream, no need to break any encryption...
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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?
on paper
It's making them less rich only if you assume pirated copies would've been sales. That's generally not the case, and piracy can often increase sales by pirates recommending things to people who will actually buy.
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What? Really? I would have thought dvd pirates would have far worse conditions than pedophiles.
That depends, is the pedophile a high profile person or a creepy poor person?
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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.
Downloading is absolutely illegal, it's just not really enforced because you need to prove criminal intent. You're still accessing copyrighted material without a license, which is a copyright violation.
Distribution has much higher penalties and is more likely to push people to buying (harder to find copies = potentially more legal sales), so that's where enforcement is focused.
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Right, but that specifically is not linking Steven Hale. So your original assertion that he is selling/supporting Russian malware is not substantiated by this article.
Exactly. That will have to be proved in court, and just making something available for anyone to use as they please is not "working with Russian hackers." They would need to prove actual collusion to make the malware-ridden version more accessible.
