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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, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Monday April 27 2015, @01:25PM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Monday April 27 2015, @01:25PM (#175691)

    I hate downloading a movie to find out it is one of those lousy cammed captures with someone heavy-breathing in the microphone. I didn't like Blair Witch in the 90's, I certainly don't want to see it on a modern movie.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Monday April 27 2015, @01:51PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday April 27 2015, @01:51PM (#175700) Journal

    I can't believe people are so desperate to watch a film that they willingly accept garbage quality video and audio.

    • (Score: 2) by frojack on Monday April 27 2015, @07:09PM

      by frojack (1554) on Monday April 27 2015, @07:09PM (#175822) Journal

      I suspect the whole story is something of a deception.

      I've seen a few pirated movies, some well before the DVD hit the stores, and they quality was usually top notch.

      The truth is that for at least a decade, movie leaks come out of the studios in digital form. Hackers or insiders or pre-release DVDs.

      Unless you have a friend in the projection booth who will screen a movie in the wee hours for you, you are going to have a difficult time "cam"-ing a first run movie. Just because the house lights are off, doesn't mean they can't see you clearly.

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      • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday April 28 2015, @03:25PM

        by nitehawk214 (1304) on Tuesday April 28 2015, @03:25PM (#176103)

        I did accidentally waste bandwidth on a movie that appeared to be recorded on an iphone. Was not happy to waste time and bandwidth on that stuff.

        However, I suppose that these are few and far between. I just wish people would label the torrents as such.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by jimshatt on Monday April 27 2015, @02:05PM

    by jimshatt (978) on Monday April 27 2015, @02:05PM (#175705) Journal
    And here I was, thinking shaky-cam was all the rage these days in Hollywood...
  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by SrLnclt on Monday April 27 2015, @04:04PM

    by SrLnclt (1473) on Monday April 27 2015, @04:04PM (#175758)

    Seriously, who watches CAM's anymore? Just wait a couple weeks - chances are a telesync, screener, DVD/BD rip, or some other source with much better audio/video quality will be available. If it's a good enough film that you want to watch it right now, chances are it's good enough you want to watch it in something resembling HD quality.

    • (Score: 2) by frojack on Monday April 27 2015, @07:26PM

      by frojack (1554) on Monday April 27 2015, @07:26PM (#175825) Journal

      Telesync was needed when films were actually distributed in film form, because you could never get your hands on a physical copy of the film.

      Not so much any more.
      Since the late 90's, its all digital media distribution., often transferred over the net to the larger first run theaters. First they used hard disks, later
      they used private satellite, now mostly its over the net.

      See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinema [wikipedia.org]

      That being the case, its almost always easier to steal a digital copy.

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