Pirates promise to put in free access more than 40 top Hollywood films

How, and they laid me out? (Source: Columbia Pictures)

As previously reported , release copies of the latest Hollywood films have appeared on the Web the other day. Among the films laid out by the pirates are “The Survivor”, “The Disgusting Eight” and others. The pirates are not going to stop there. Soon, the pirates promise to post more than 40 of the most popular films in the next few weeks.

In general, Hollywood studios are by no means happy with such a New Year's gift. Shared movies are downloaded by hundreds of thousands of users around the world. It’s difficult to estimate the exact number of downloads, as films appeared on several resources at once, including closed ones. But you can confidently talk about millions of downloads. According to the anti-piracy company Excipio, only the Abominable Eight downloaded more than 1.3 million times in the first day.

Interestingly, films uploaded to the network are deprived of watermarks and other marks, which usually serve as identifiers. With their help, law enforcement officers can track down pirates.

It is understood that Hollywood film companies are already investigating. In particular, FBI agents were involved in it. It has now become clear that one of the films was sent on disk to one of the directors of the production company Alcon Entertainment, Andrew Kosov [Andrew Kosove]. Kosov himself claims that he did not receive the film. Pirates have already stated that films will be laid out at a frequency of one film per day.

The responsibility for what happened was assumed by the release group Hive-CM8. She has been working for about five years, and over the past time, through the efforts of this group, films such as “Social Network”, “The Hobbit”, “Interstellar” and others have been uploaded to the Network. Other release groups were also involved in the leak.