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FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters
Submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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drmoose@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Watch him as he goes.
User79185@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
DVD?
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
YOU WOULDN'T SPIDER A MAN
Veedem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
15 years? Wow. He could have run down multiple pedestrians, killed one of them, and used a false insurance claim to try to cover it up and gotten a third of that.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Just goes to show how horrendous this sort of crime is. I hear dvd pirates are on the same cell blocks as pedophiles in prison.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What? Really? I would have thought dvd pirates would have far worse conditions than pedophiles.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
One is running some nobodies over, the other making a rich guy some pennies less rich.
Must set a precedent, y’know?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
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.
Broken@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Goes to show, he should have made a run for it and hit a bunch of people with his car. Then he’d get a reduced sentence.
booly@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
People generally aren’t sentenced to the maximum penalty for a crime, so it’s not very useful to compare the maximum potential sentence for a charged crime versus the actual sentence received after conviction on another crime. The Indianapolis hit and run carried potential penalties of more than 15 years. This DVD guy will probably get less than 5.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
The comments (and maybe the article too, I didn’t read to the bottom) are misinformation. This guy isn’t enabling Russian hacker groups. What happened is he ripped the BluRay and posted it online. Since it got a lot of hype Russian hackers decided to use that opportunity and ship a similar file ending in .exe instead of the usual Matroska format (.mkv) you see usually with ripped BluRays. If you were around torrent communities back then you know this to be false. These are your tax dollars at work, potentially jailing someone up to 15 years for ripping a BluRay.
Orcspit@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Thankfully this monster is finally off the streets
pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
National security priorities definitely in order.
Antagnostic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My tax dollars at work‽
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Honestly, yeah, he was enabling Russian Hackers.
WR5@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thankfully your banjo playing days are finite.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Glad my tax dollars aren’t going to waste /s
singletona@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes let’s not go after the south African literally fomenting the rise of a fashist takovet. Let’s go after the guy selling bootleg DVDs.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m okay with both. This guy was enabling a Russian Hacker network.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Lol corporate enforcers paid by taxes
LavaPlanet@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He shoulda just said he was training an ai model!
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He didn’t get arrested for theft. He got arrested for being part of a distribution network that empowered Russian hackers.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
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.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
what year is it
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He really wasn’t. The media he distributed came with Russian malware.
bhamlin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But i collect russian malware. I was expecting that release. Where else can I find that? It’s gone now, and the collector’s value has skyrocketed.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
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?
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Hey, that’s the combination to my luggage!
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Hex?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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 1 day ago
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.
d00ery@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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 1 day ago
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”
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If they’re being shared as disk images, basically every Blu-Ray has an embedded Java program, also
ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 1 day ago
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
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
tldr: people using Windows can get duped
Truth.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The video itself is a set of instructions, and when a video player interprets those instructions there is a window of opportunity.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Fails to mention he also was selling the discs online.
But they want to sentence him for 15 years for this, even though his actions likely saved lives during the height of COVID if the allegations are true; if they aren’t true, he harmed nobody because those 10 million people wouldn’t have seen the movies in theaters anyway.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
DVDs?? is this article from 2006?
Mezmer1zed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Weirdly enough, DVDs are still by far the most popular physical format.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Well, they’re often cheaper and easier to rip. I ha e a bluray reader w/ Libredrive flashed, but not everyone has that.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I still buy them, but I prefer when it’s a dvd/blueray/3D (if available) combo pack.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m going to go out on a limb and say this company that makes DVDs probably also makes Blu-Ray discs.
giacomo@lemm.ee 1 day ago
what kinda 2009 headline is this?
police also confiscated 50 pairs of counterfit ray-ban sunglasses and 20 lbs of zippo lighters
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Plot twist. It was 1 zippo lighter, but it was a comically large one. It just weighs 20 lbs.
singletona@lemmy.world 1 day ago
At that point wouldn’t it just be a really shitty flamethrower?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Thankfully, no crime was committed
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How “Les Misérables” of them. Jean Valjean got 19 years for stealing bread. 15 years is light in comparison.
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I knew they were going to start cracking down on piracy. They’ll use it as an excuse to make vpns illegal.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Shhhhh, don’t give them ideas!
jerryq27@programming.dev 1 hour ago
They’re going after Meta next for pirating terabytes of books to train their AI, right? Right??