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Hackers Leak Eight Episodes of An Unreleased ABC Show (torrentfreak.com)
The hacking entity TheDarkOverlord (TDO) has reportedly leaked Steve Harvey's Funderdome via The Pirate Bay. TDO said they approached ABC "with a most handsome business proposal" not to leak eight episodes of the ABC show but was "rudely denied an audience." TorrentFreak reports: Late April, a hacking group calling itself TheDarkOverlord (TDO) warned that unless a ransom was paid, it would begin leaking a trove of unreleased TV shows and movies. Almost immediately it carried through with its threat by leaking the season five premiere of Netflix's Orange is The New Black. The leak was just the start though, with another nine episodes quickly following. Netflix had clearly refused to pay any ransom. "We've just released ABC's 'Steve Harvey's Funderdome' Season 01 Episodes 01 through 08. This is a completely unaired show," TDO told TF. Ever since there have been suggestions that TDO could leak additional material. It was previously established that the Orange is the New Black leak was the result of a breach at post-production studio Larson Studios. TDO previously indicated that it had more content up its sleeve from the same location. During the past few hours that became evident when a message sent to TF heralded a new leak of yet another unaired show. TDO refused to confirm where it had obtained the content but since the show was present in an earlier list distributed by TDO, it seems possible if not probable that the episodes were also obtained from Larson. We're unwilling to discuss the source of this material, but we'll go on the record stating that this is content that is owned by American Broadcasting Company and it's just been released on the world wide web for everyone's consumption," TDO said.
I mean, having a large amount of your top trade secrets stolen can only be one thing: The result of extreme incompetence. Sounds very much like some bean-counter felt smart saving a few $100k and now there is a loss some 1000x that as a result. Very low amateur level.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Even if I wanted to watch Steve Harvey I haven't got the time. The little time I spend watching tee vee is completely booked for the foreseeable future with a deluge on new content; we're in some kind of tvpocalypse with so much new stuff being made it's a full time job to watch all of it. I haven't watched a rerun of anything since 2014. I don't care if some "hacker" "leaks" a couple episodes of Orange is The New Black "season" five because I HAVEN'T EVEN WATCHED THE FIRST FOUR SEASONS yet.
I just got through Son's of Anarchy and they quit making those 3 years ago. Next will be another walking dead "season", another GOT, another whatever... Fuck do I care what these people are leaking? Like I'm going to install some creepyware pirating crap and go mess around on a pirate bay server and get my IP added to the list of scoflaws..... why would I do that?
Honestly... what is being accomplished here? Is anything of value being lost by anyone?
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!