Hacker group Hive-CM8 leaked the popular movie resources, but still, encourage viewers to theaters

According to IndieWire website, the hacker group Hive-CM8 has grabbed resources for several pre-season popular videos and leaked it to several seed websites.
According to the report, the leak started on the eve of Christmas. The first one to be hit was Richard Linklater’s latest film, “Last Flag Flying” along with his accompanying notes: “Merry Christmas and stay tuned.”

A few hours later, “Call Me by Your Name”, “I, Tonya” and “Lady Bird” resources also appeared online. The above three films are the most popular videos of the season and have been released in the United States.

Hive-CM8 said in a message, “Don’t forget watching a screener is not like the real thing, you should still all go to the cinema and support the Producers,”

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“We are especially sharing this for the people who can’t visit the cinema due to illness, or because it is a limited release that doesn’t make it to their country,” the note read. “So those people also can experience some Award-nominated movies. Enjoy.”

In addition, the Deadline Web site mentioned in a story that a message from the social forum Reddit’s Piracy Resource section shows that the resources for another popular Three Billboards Outside Ebbing (Missouri) also seem to come from Hive- CM8, the movie resource is uploaded on December 27. Someone in reply asked if there would be a “Shape of Water” resource, which was also a hit with many nominations.

The release of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight put the Hive-CM8 in the spotlight at the end of 2015, the publishing company The Weinstein Company said had negatively affected the film’s box office. Before the release of the movie, the organization issued a statement of apology on its disclosure: “We apologize for the troubles caused by the release of this wonderful movie before its release, and we never thought we should hurt anyone.”

According to TorrentFreak, the FBI’s investigation into the “Eight Wicked” leak found that the source of the outflow was from a preview DVD received by co-CEO Andrew Kosove of Alcon Entertainment, but said he was not clear what the DVD was Fall into the hands of pirates.

It is noteworthy that several films leaked are appearing in the U.S. cinemas in a limited release. Unlike large-scale release, the limited release is directed specifically at documentaries, indie and art films that have been shown only in selected U.S. cinemas, mostly in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

Chris Agar counts four leaked movies in an article on the Screenrant Web site, where Miss Byrd was the largest release, a week before the Star Wars: The Last Jedi There are currently 1557 cinemas in the United States, with 372 currently remaining. In contrast, “please call me by your name” has been shown in up to 114 cinemas, with 110 cinemas showing “The Last Banner,” “Queen I, Only 37. “It’s not easy to think of any of these films until you can watch it through home media.”

Chris Agar believes that piracy is illegal, but this moral dilemma is not without the solution. “Distribution companies have the will to create a system that will allow people to watch movies on demand via video-on-demand several weeks after the premiere, and video on demand for such good films as Miss Byrd.”

Reference: indiewire