Rambo’s Armed Guard Anti-Piracy Measures Torn Apart By Industry Insider
Written by enigmax on February 01, 2008Just days after Sylvester Stallone had an armed guard deliver an advance screener copy of the new “Rambo” movie to Howard Stern, it’s shown that even these type of security measures can be rendered useless. A copy of the movie is now available on BitTorrent, likely leaked by an industry insider.
Pirated movies on the Internet are available in many forms, but broadly speaking they fall into just a few categories. So called ‘Cams’ are movies recorded in a theater with a hidden camcorder, usually of questionable quality. ‘Telesyncs’ are ‘Cams’ with (usually) better audio and DVD-Rips are copies from an original DVD.
The more interesting category is that of the ’screener’ - a promo copy of a movie, usually on DVD - and the new arch nemesis of Rambo - the ‘workprint‘ - an unfinished version of the movie, leaked by someone involved in its making. It’s clear as day - you can’t guard everyone, Sly, and although some people might like to try, you can’t lock up everyone in the movie industry either.
According to reports, the quality of the recently leaked Rambo ‘workprint’ seems good, but it carries a very visible watermark saying “Culture Makers Entertainment”, a phrase when put exactly into Google comes up with a surprising result (before this article, it linked to this page).
The fact that another movie is available on BitTorrent is nothing new and not really news these days. But, the leaking of movies by industry insiders before they’re even completed is nothing new either. In fact, it happened in 2005 when a workprint copy of Star Wars Episode III got leaked, which resulted in a FBI raid on the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker.
Many people from the BitTorrent community went to prison because of their involvement in handling the leaked copy, yet surprisingly the FBI doesn’t appear to have found the movie industry insider who leaked it. The long arm of the movie industry seems to reach right over its own security issues, concentrating only on the uploaders, and threatening as many of them as it can with prison. It clearly needs to look closer to home.
Yet when Lions Gate President Tom Ortenberg was asked if the leaking of a workprint copy of Hostel 2 would have a financial impact due to this type of piracy, he responded “..it will have no meaningful impact on the box office.”
The new Rambo movie is currently sitting at No.2 in the US Box Office charts, proving that when the movie is considered good, people are happy to go watch it.
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Long Live The Torrent Community.
Anyone question Howard Stern? I mean afterall he uploads his own shows to mininova??
How come I say this comment is old, and It gets deleted?
Wtf is up torrentfreak? Can’t handle the truth?
How many hours ago did this pre before your wrote about it… The original, not the REPACK.
How slow ARE you?
lol. this is advertising you kn0bs.
a planned leak to get interest in the upcoming movie ;)
Do you think it is Thoms, Dai Nam or Ashely from Culture Makers Entertainment who uploaded it? Those darn koreans :p
Naw.. Naw.. eetwars nawt me
[quote comment="278050"]How come I say this comment is old, and It gets deleted?
Wtf is up torrentfreak? Can’t handle the truth?[/quote]
Sorry that was me, I was deleting spam and you got caught in that.
We aren’t aiming to be a site dedicated to talking about leaks, sites like RLSLog do that.
This article is more about industry insiders being involved in leaks and only BitTorrent uploaders being ‘brought to justice’. It’s really unbalanced.
in actual fact, all of these hollywood movies such as the above mentioned are pure crap. Maybe moments of cool redneck war eye candy, but not worth the hard earned money my parents send me every month (ref BH). But seriously, they should just put a few cans of soda (which they do) in te movie and distribute it for free…its the only way Id even watch such dribble…
i wont rush to dl it, i couldnt understand what he was mumbling about in the other films!
i hear http://sellemsellme.co.uk/ is some kind of torrent sitein the making. nothing on goolge about it though, i heard from a friend. probably a load ocrap :D
lol pwned!!!
in this era where you can watch movie online(stream) , why would they still released demo dvd?
link: http://www.seedpeer.com/details/1096878.html
[quote comment="278076"][quote comment="278050"]How come I say this comment is old, and It gets deleted?
Wtf is up torrentfreak? Can’t handle the truth?[/quote]
Sorry that was me, I was deleting spam and you got caught in that.
We aren’t aiming to be a site dedicated to talking about leaks, sites like RLSLog do that.
This article is more about industry insiders being involved in leaks and only BitTorrent uploaders being ‘brought to justice’. It’s really unbalanced.[/quote]
Nice reply
the quality is shit anyway. you have to audio delay it by -350ms to get it close to sync’d
I’ve worked on music for shows like entourage and nowadays they send me the episode with my name in the corner.
I wouldn’t dare share anything like that. I would never work in the business again.
@15 a repack was released putting it back in sync
Shitty quality, ruins the movie. Plus the watermark is really annoying.
Yea picture is pritty blurry and dark but better than any cam -version
I don’t see anything interesting in those google results, unless someone can explain what a “media buyer” in south korea is. the rest of the results are comments on the rambo leak.
I think the Google results were “interesting” because torrent freak was at the top of the returned results. The search terms were words taken from the WP.
http://quicksilverscreen.com/watch?video=25383
i like this :P
yarrrrr!
[quote comment="278076"]
This article is more about industry insiders being involved in leaks and only BitTorrent uploaders being ‘brought to justice’. It’s really unbalanced.[/quote]
Unbalanced indeed but should people actually question the current project being run by “X” agency.
This tactic to inprison “customers” due to their involvement in assisting to copyright infringment is quite clearly working perfectly.
Keep in mind they claim to be losing money, yet the many people that have bowed down and payed or gone to prison for said actions have alone given back what was claimed to be lost. As people continue to be punished for “sharing” the more indisteries control us. Unfortunetly their will always be people that will never be shown the truth about the terrable things these major corparations are doing behind our backs. But because the most important informations is cleared away quicker then it can be broadcasted, some things may never come to light.
I would like to add that people believe that only site owners/torrent uploads have the ability to remove torrents from some sites. But this is not true, so think about that and let your site admins/mods try and convince you other wise.
what i really want to see is updates on the pirate bay trial. This is the thing i am most interested in, even if there are no updates it would be good for some more rumours….
http://postlikeapirate.com/ YARRR
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