Hollywood Studios Caught Pirating Movies

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Hollywood studios caught pirating movies? Umm, hello? The movies and music downloaded by studio employees was for research. Duh. :D

BitTorrent is used by millions of people every day, including people who work at major Hollywood studios. Those who are said to be suffering the most from online piracy are no stranger to sharing copyrighted files themselves. New data reveals that employees at Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Disney, Sony Pictures and 20th Century Fox are openly pirating movies, games and other forms of entertainment while at work.
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Now the question is, could this be legit, or there way of "leaking" the stuff to follow the trackers? Orrrrr all fake and someone's idea to poke fun at them? who knows lol
 
orienz said:
Now the question is, could this be legit, or there way of "leaking" the stuff to follow the trackers? Orrrrr all fake and someone's idea to poke fun at them? who knows lol
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No and no.
 
To be fair, if the average home makes $50,000 a year and the charges for piracy have been as high as 2 million, wouldn't it make sense to fine the studio 40x what they make in a year for this offense?

Charge them $480,000,000 and give them a taste of what the average person might go through...
 
/waves hand, and says in a ominous voice.. These are not the pirates you are looking for.
 
With the hurf durf responses out of the way...

It'd be no surprise if employees don't believe in the anti-piracy campaigns of the companies they work for. It is a bit surprising that the companies don't block BT, but that doesn't mean the companies somehow endorse it. With this report, it's likely some employees will be "spoken with" and IT will probably block the traffic to prevent casual use (someone can always get around it).

Also, regardless of the fud in those campaigns, it is pretty much a requirement that any copyright holders condemn unauthorized usage in order to maintain a valid copyright. If they don't "protect" their copyright, they can lose it.
 
pxc said:
With the hurf durf responses out of the way...

It'd be no surprise if employees don't believe in the anti-piracy campaigns of the companies they work for. It is a bit surprising that the companies don't block BT, but that doesn't mean the companies somehow endorse it. With this report, it's likely some employees will be "spoken with" and IT will probably block the traffic to prevent casual use (someone can always get around it).

Also, regardless of the fud in those campaigns, it is pretty much a requirement that any copyright holders condemn unauthorized usage in order to maintain a valid copyright. If they don't "protect" their copyright, they can lose it.
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Frankly, I'm surprised they didn't have it locked down in the first place. For them to be going after it so viciously that's just irresponsible on their part. With as big as that group is as well, they should have an IT group that should be aware and have their network locked down. It's not that hard to lock most methods out to where even tech savvy people don't stand a chance. Between this and network monitoring, that should never happen on a network if the IT group doesn't want it to.
 
of course this wasn't them, it was the neighbor studios who hack in their wi-fi and downloaded like crazy! :rolleyes:
 
Not exactly a surprise, leaked screener copies of movies (not camera recordings from inside the theater) don't exactly come from ninja pirates who sneak into the companies and make copies of the screeners and jump out of the building james bond style.
 
sfsuphysics said:
Not exactly a surprise, leaked screener copies of movies (not camera recordings from inside the theater) don't exactly come from ninja pirates who sneak into the companies and make copies of the screeners and jump out of the building james bond style.
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Nah, they skyhook out like in The Dark Knight.
 
sfsuphysics said:
Not exactly a surprise, leaked screener copies of movies (not camera recordings from inside the theater) don't exactly come from ninja pirates who sneak into the companies and make copies of the screeners and jump out of the building james bond style.
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Actually some leaked screeners come from (often at least) Oscar nominations via voting members being sent screeners for personal viewing. Some of the biggest releases for piracy happen during that time period when members of the academy are sent copies.

Otherwise yea , I agree with you. Internal leaks for the most part , which is funny.
 
sfsuphysics said:
Not exactly a surprise, leaked screener copies of movies
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They primarily come from awards peddling, where studios sent info packets including the movie on DVD. For your consideration...

It's pretty doubtful most come from drone employees at the studios. There are other places they can leak instead: disc replication companies. That's a huge source of where at least games "leak". I can attest that it's really easy to copy a disc at some point after it hits the replication facility*. :p

* sometimes companies want ALL production overages, and due to record keeping on the disc replication machines (large, high pressure polycarbonate injection presses), it's hard to make just one more copy without it showing up somewhere. It's easier to copy a disc some time around the making of the glass master, or in QC before (disc is scanned to make sure it can successfully be used to make a master. The company I worked at used Koch and Philips disc analyzers). :p
 
Also, regardless of the fud in those campaigns, it is pretty much a requirement that any copyright holders condemn unauthorized usage in order to maintain a valid copyright. If they don't "protect" their copyright, they can lose it.
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You are confusing copyright with trademarks.
 
Checking mypiracy.net, I apparently downloaded 101 Dog Tricks (Our neighbors have dogs, but I don't like dogs myself; I feed the stray cats in our neighborhood instead), Fifty Shades of Grey (WTF???), Justin Bieber - As Long As You Love Me (WTF???), and The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 1 (OH GOD WHY???).

Not reliable if your ISP provides dynamic IPs. But then again it's a similar 'tracking service' that the MPAA and RIAA are trumpeting in their six-strikes scheme...
 
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