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Topic: It's so easy to pirate content, some people don't believe it's pirated
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Frank Cox
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From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 02-05-2015 02:01 PM
I was at my accountant's office today and his secretary, a woman in her early 30's, said, "I see that you're playing American Sniper. I watched it on television a while back, and liked it quite a lot."
Turns out that she has some gadget called a Showbox that attaches to her television and allows her to watch, in her words, "all kinds of movies and television shows, sometimes before they are in the theatres and all for free!"
Never having heard of Showbox, I said that it must be some kind of a pirated content service but she said, "Oh no, it's perfectly legal" and she wasn't trying to kid me. She really believes that, and I think you would have a very difficult time convincing her otherwise.
It's now become so easy to obtain pirated movies that at least some of the people who are watching them don't even realize that it isn't a legal service.
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Marcel Birgelen
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posted 02-05-2015 06:04 PM
The minute they start putting ads on those kind of services is when the stuff gets interesting, because that's when a traceable money trail comes into the picture.
But sure thing, many of those services are most likely not as harmless to the end user as they seem, besides the fact that most of those services are indeed totally illegal in most places on this world. Or rather, the services themselves might not necessarily be illegal, but their usage sure is. (A rather interesting conflicting situation.)
I've heard of Popcorn Time and someone told me actually today he bought some "whatever box", probably an Android based media player that seemingly came pre-loaded with it.
Also, if you Google "Popcorn Time alternative", all kinds of stuff comes up, including one called Flixtor. Now, I've never tried this thing before, but looking at the screenshots, this looks just like Netflix and Amazon Prime, only with all the movies you otherwise couldn't have.
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Marcel Birgelen
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posted 02-13-2015 02:17 AM
If you haven't been living under a rock the last 10 years or so, you might know that those leaked "screeners" are probably the single biggest piracy problem around.
Exhibitors all over the world have jump trough all kinds of difficult hoops, have to buy extra-expensive, certified gear, all just to keep Hollywood's content secure, while on the other hand they keep leaking it out and giving it away on discs to Academy Members and whatever other award's jury members.
At least some of them claim that those discs they give to jury members, etc. are now watermarked, so they could, theoretically, quite easily follow it back to where the leak happened.
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