Hacker Holds Orange Is The New Black and Other Shows Ransom
 

2017, man...

Do ransoms even work?

He's making good on his threat

https://torrentfreak.com/hackers-lea...emiere-170429/

I have no personal investment in this show so I'm just gonna sit back and popcorn.gif this news story

Ransoms always seem like the worst way to go. Like, your chances of being caught increase tenfold after you get the money.

It amazes me that this doesn't happen more often. The files were pulled from the server of an ADR service; something as small as that makes you realize how many hands in however many companies these files must go through before release. The penalties for that sort of under-handed distribution must be pretty extreme, but still.

Seems like a crap scheme.
I mean, it's not like funds are untraceable.

The person behind this will get caught and either get jail time, or a job offer.

Well this is a new step for piracy.

I'm pretty tempted to watch it, but nah. I'll wait until it's on Netflix.

He might have a case if he said he had Defenders season 1.

I'm sure the Mouse House would play serious hard ball if that happened.

Crap, does The Mouse have the rights to OITNB?
Dude's toast.

I think he meant in the case of Defenders, which is what Andrew NDB mentioned.

OH!
Yeah, that makes far more sense.

I wonder whatever happened to that guy who leaked the Age of Ultron trailer a couple days early.

Probably assassinated by MousekateerOps.

Who names themselves The Dark Overlord? This person has to be a child in their parents basement.

If a child hacked Netflix, I'd be impressed

Netflix would be smart to release the show as soon as possible, sure this may mess up their releases a bit and maybe even a financial quarter they had planned but they have more to lose by ignoring it and keeping the original release date, marketing be damned. I would think Netflix would be smarter than that as they're doing the same mistakes the music industry was over a decade ago and that old media companies do when dealing with leaks.


The ransom would've likely been payed in bitcoin which makes tracking it a lot more difficult and they would've been fine. Hackers have always had silly names like bad guys in movies, that's what makes them so awesome.

Pfft..."The Dark Overlord" name is so cheesy. ::lol:

Reminds me of "Taserface" :tlol: (those who haven't watched Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 won't get this side joke).

Anyway, there will be a reckoning. Pretty stupid to ransom a tv show of all things tbh.

If you have to explain a joke, it's not funny.

The movie isn't even in the wide release phase yet.

If you have to explain why a joke isn't funny to you, then your ass is salty. :twink:

It's not out where you are? Too bad, no one cares about you. :tcool:

wtf is wrong with you

As someone who saw Guardians 2, the Taserface gag wasn't remotely funny

It's not that funny, it's cheesy like I said. Just like "The Dark Overlord" name is cheesy.

Then again, Star-Lord is a cheesy name too.

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It's a new spin on an old routine. Hackers have been extorting money out of online retailers and betting sites for years, essentially by threatening to DDOS them on big trading days. Of course, they're usually more discrete about it.

Meet The Failed Batman Villain Who Tried To Ransom Netflix (cracked.com)

That's a terribly written article..

First of all this does affect Netflix a lot as their original programming drives subscriber numbers, that's also why they're scheduled as such. The music industry did the whole "ignore the leaks" and we now how that turned out for them.

Second, most hackers are not stupid, it takes quite a bit of work to be any good at it so you would assume he is behind 7 proxies, of course there's the average script kiddie who scores it big and is only behind 6 proxies that always get caught. If he's any good he'll be fine.

I can see this becoming a thing and in the age of digital distribution companies have a very easy to deal with it, release it before the hacker.

Looks like I was right, hackers doing the same to Disney with Pirates of the Caribbean 5. Unlike Netflix it's a little harder to just release the film which Netflix should've done.

I think this might become more commonplace as I mentioned so what enterprises should do is take power away from hackers, never pay, either release the film as soon as the hackers do and in the case of theatrical movies which have contracts then play the waiting game. The early Wolverine Origins release didn't hurt it, albeit that was a different time were "normies" didn't pirate as much and it wasn't finished

Agreed. It felt like a recycled joke from, like, a 90s Adam Sandler movie.

Dude, if those hackers leak that movie before its release that would be pretty dope. They'd get my respect.