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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.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday April 27 2015, @07:26PM
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.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.