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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lol @ the surprising result!
[quote comment="278053"]lol. this is advertising you kn0bs.
a planned leak to get interest in the upcoming movie ;)[/quote]
haha so true ;)
It’s called viral marketing. IOW: PWNED!1
[quote comment="278092"]i wont rush to dl it, i couldnt understand what he was mumbling about in the other films![/quote]
Ditto!
Aydwien…
Theory: What if studio releasing MEET THE SPARTANS (Fox) leaked RAMBO on the internet on purpose to ruin its box office potential?
What if this is a practice that the studios secretly do to each other?
[quote comment="278350"]Theory: What if studio releasing MEET THE SPARTANS (Fox) leaked RAMBO on the internet on purpose to ruin its box office potential?
What if this is a practice that the studios secretly do to each other?[/quote]
Sounds good to me! Bring it on!
Yeah I really wanna know whats goin on with the pirate bay trial.
Year there is most probably an inside man …Damn i know its Denzel washington !! The FBEYE should download Inside Man and see for themselves!
[quote comment="278037"]Long Live The Torrent Community.[/quote]
Um, the torrent community had nothing to do with releasing the workprint mate.
torrent community had nothing to do? Oh really is that why it’s on every torrent site. It may not have originated there, OBVIOUSLY.
here is a question to think of..
whats the effect of piracy on Movie producers,software companies,record companies and singers..Etc
did they go bankrupt..did they lose their business,,r rock stars now begging for money coz their work is available for free,,
did Microsoft file for bankruptcy ..
is 50 Cent broke
Communists
[quote comment="278507"]torrent community had nothing to do? Oh really is that why it’s on every torrent site. It may not have originated there, OBVIOUSLY.[/quote]
I said that they had nothing to do with releasing it. Which they didn’t. Fuck’s sake :/
[quote comment="278507"]torrent community had nothing to do? Oh really is that why it’s on every torrent site. It may not have originated there, OBVIOUSLY.[/quote]
This is what is wrong with the torrent community.
People go on about how many hundreds of gigabytes they have downloaded, oblivious that some uploader paid for them.
People go on about how torrent sites have amazing movies on them, oblivious that torrent sites simply pass them on from FTPs.
Hate to say it, but the level of awareness in the private torrenting community, of where the files actually come from, is dramatically falling by the day.
Thats becuase no one gives a shit where it comes from. You dont scene crap on torrent? Start your own internet sucka.
Thank goodness Stallone is old and will die soon because of his over indulgence in ROIDs.
The guy is such a Brain Fart…!!!!
The Italian Stallion kicks ass once again. I think he kills more baddies in that film then any of his others. That’s just how awesome he is.
So where is the link to the movie ?
The MPAA nazis don’t want to arrest their own kids and friends for uploading stuff, besides its more lucrative to sue a John Doe for $XXXX than people close to them.
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all I can say is lol
http://us.vdc.imdb.com/title/tt0462499/usercomments?filter=hate
[quote comment="278089"]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…[/quote]
my thoughts exactly.
Some people seem to be getting close to the main reason these insider leaks are being released.
The so-called movie industry is making the problem worse by pre-releasing it’s own movies, to help them sue individuals in courts, they are lining their own pockets to make their case hold up in court.
their so-called proft losses are nowhere near the factual ammount they are crying about in the news.
I have not and will not buy movies ever again, and a vast majority of new movies are utter crap now anyway…
Remember folks they want you to think they’re in trouble with money, but were not as stupid as they think we are, and were not as stupid as they are :)
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