TorrentFreak - As Game of Thrones smashes download records this week, an extra act of sharing will soon come from a most unusual source. Sick and tired of the poor quality offered by HBO’s official streaming service, the director of movie Iron Sky says he’s going to take retaliatory action. Complaining about their delivery the Finnish director told HBO that their service “sucks” so in future he’ll download the show from The Pirate Bay.
Now, The Pirate Bay, the infamous torrent hub is setting sail (get it, because of pirates?) into the streaming world.
A few hours ago a cryptocurrency miner appeared on The Pirate Bay website, using the computer resources of visitors to mine Monero coins. The operators of The Pirate Bay are testing it as a new way to generate revenue, but many users aren't happy.
What an ingenious idea. A bit bigger CPU workload won't be that obvious for an average Joe, but the mining from millions of users, even if occasional, will add up.
This is why I use both a script blocker and an ad blocker in all my random browsing. Only trusted sites get to do anything beyond straight html.
well if their users arent paying for the service in cash, the least they can do is unknowingly help them fund their stuff. lol
whats funny is that people using the PIRATE bay arent happy about pirates strealing their PC performance but its ok for them to steal other peoples copyright material. lol
Several news outlets are reporting a leaked email from HBO that discusses ransom terms for information that was hacked from their servers. The initial breach on July 31st saw hackers take 1.5TB of information supposedly including scripts, episode descriptions, and marketing material, specifically targeting Game of Thrones. Certain individuals also had their emails stolen.
"This may result in a dangerous precedent being set, encouraging more people to hack big companies like HBO with the possibility for millions of (or hundreds of thousands at least) dollars to be coerced."
I don't need to add to that, really. I'm horrified by the prospect. I wonder if future victims could sue HBO for facilitating such a nightmare scenario.
Edit: "However, it’s worth noting at this point that the authenticity of the email is sketchy, as there is no way of knowing if it has been altered or even fabricated."
*Sigh* That's what I get for jumping the gun. Look, people, if it's a *rumor*, say so in the headline. Otherwise, it's misleading.
Score 1 for Pirate Bay & Iron Sky.
i don't understand why the show is not available on other services. if people so badly want to see your tv show to the point where everyone is scrambling to pirate it then why not just make it available for them to buy? i don't get it.
Nice, it pisses me off when networks offer shitty quality, i rather download them...
LOL
I will admit even if this was available on a bunch of other services making it more accessible I will still download it off pirate bay. It is still smart for HBO to make it more accessible but 90% will still torrent it, instead of the 99% of people now. I download stuff like most people because its free and I can.