Hacker Holds Orange Is The New Black and Other Shows Ransom

[snake]

Originally Posted by Shark_Blade

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

Reminds me of "Taserface" (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.

[Shark_Blade]

Originally Posted by snake

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.

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

[Netkeeper]

wtf is wrong with you

[ZariusTwo]

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

[Shark_Blade]

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.

[snake]

Originally Posted by Shark_Blade

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

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

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[ProactiveMan]

Originally Posted by TheSkeletonMan939

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.

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.

[plastroncafe]

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

[sdp]

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.

[sdp]

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

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

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

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

[DestronMirage22]

Originally Posted by sdp

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.

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