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posted by CoolHand on Monday April 27 2015, @07:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the smile-you're-on-candid-camera dept.

TorrentFreak has uncovered a "top-secret" presentation made by the Federation Against Copyright Theft and sent to Sony Pictures. "The document reveals suspects being filmed in cinemas, tracked using Facebook friends, and their connections to release groups mapped in intriguing diagrams."

FACT goes on to give Sony several examples of situations in which it has been involved in information exercises sharing with the authorities. The exact details aren't provided, but somewhat surprisingly FACT says they include murder, kidnap and large-scale missing persons investigations.

But perhaps of most interest are the details of how the group pursues those who illegally "cam" and then distribute movies online. The presentation focuses on the "proven" leak of five movies in 2010, the total from UK cinemas for that year.

[...] Considering the depth and presentation of the above investigations it will come as no surprise to most that many FACT investigators are former police officers. For the curious, the full document can be found here on Wikileaks.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by looorg on Monday April 27 2015, @01:00PM

    by looorg (578) on Monday April 27 2015, @01:00PM (#175682)

    "... connections to release groups mapped in intriguing diagrams."

    A couple of I^2 analyst notebook screen-grabs now apparently qualify as intriguing diagrams. It's basically a industry standard software package and considering how many people from law-enforcement they probably lure over with their Hollywood entertainment dollars that these people would then use the same software packages they are trained to use isn't really all that strange is it?

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