I can't tell if its fake or not yet, there seems to be evidence pointing in both directions, however if it isn't then it was shut down because of 'Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith'.
Ussually a film gets released by a group on a topsite in 'the scene' and is then raced to other FTPs and then onto everywhere else and appears on torrent sites like Elite Torrents a couple hours later at best. This time however (just like with Kill Bill a few years ago) a workprint was stolen from a DVD release group known as ViSA and managed to appear on Elite Torrents first before it was PRE'd on the topsite, this means the first place you could get the new Star Wars movie anywhere on the internet was Elite Torrents.
Then a week later they are shut down, and not only are they shut down but homeland security posts a picture of elitetorrents with a pirated star wars over at http://www.ice.gov/graphics/
Perhaps the Star Wars release was the straw that broke the camels back
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I can't tell if its fake or not yet, there seems to be evidence pointing in both directions, however if it isn't then it was shut down because of 'Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith'. Ussually a film gets released by a group on a topsite in 'the scene' and is then raced to other FTPs and then onto everywhere else and appears on torrent sites like Elite Torrents a couple hours later at best. This time however (just like with Kill Bill a few years ago) a workprint was stolen from a DVD release group known as ViSA and managed to appear on Elite Torrents first before it was PRE'd on the topsite, this means the first place you could get the new Star Wars movie anywhere on the internet was Elite Torrents. Then a week later they are shut down, and not only are they shut down but homeland security posts a picture of elitetorrents with a pirated star wars over at http://www.ice.gov/graphics/ Perhaps the Star Wars release was the straw that broke the camels back