Comment on FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters

• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • WR5@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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      • WR5@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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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