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Mr. Robot 'Plugs' uTorrent and Pirate Release Groups (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on from the pirates-ftw dept.

From a TorrentFreak report: The latest episode of award-winning TV show Mr. Robot includes a nod to online pirates. The main character Elliot is shown pirating a movie using uTorrent, while his movie folder lists movies from various pirate groups including YIFY. The group in question appreciates the "bad ass" mention, while another group casts doubt on the hacker's choice of BitTorrent client.
As the screenshot shows, Elliot uses a recent version of the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent, showing a house ad for an upgrade to uTorrent Plus. In the "movies" folder, which is also shown, we can see various other movies complete with release group tags such as YIFY, PRiSTiNE, DiPSHiT, RARBG and CRiTERiON.

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  1. Episode title names by porges · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Considering that all of the episode titles are designed to look like filenames of torrents of themselves, this is hardly surprising.

  2. Why aren't they getting sued? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seriously, representing movie piracy and showing it to the world like that, that's got to be some type of terrible offence for the big movie studio right?
    Oh I forgot, they can do whatever they want, it's only the little guy who download a single terrible movie that should get sued for millions in damages.

  3. Re:when the show will start? by NotAPK · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Absolutely agree.

    Don't want to ruin it (and I'm probably wrong anyway, speculation isn't a spoiler) but I think everything Elliot is doing right now is inside a fantasy world. Just like in the first season I think there's going to be some big reveal soon that will "blow our minds"(TM) but unfortunately I'm expecting it to be too little too late: they need to do something now!!