South African pirate arrested for uploading

Wowsers, I can tell you now this is going to send shockwaves through the South African pirate community, for sure. In many aspects, that's not a bad thing at all.
 
Damn, if they could only start by removing killers and rapists from the street rather than people that upload/download movies.
 
Interesting to see how the charges are going to be presented... our ECT act is rather flimsy "whistling:
 
Definitely not a home user, probably someone that works in the studio that filmed the movie and had uploaded a post production copy or final retail copy up on the net, they wouldn't just do it for a nobody sitting in front of a PC.

Think about it logically, how many local CD's and movies are put on the net shortly after their retail release in SA? Quite a few. Why now all of a sudden, and the movie is still a mystery? There are simply too many gaps to fill.

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Just spoke to my brother he works at Ster-Kinekor, all Projectors are digital, they all come on hard drives sent via Head office, so a copy of a film is easily obtained with a HDD enclosure. I am thinking:

Kopi -> Pasta -> Convert -> Upload -> IP tracked and busted?

This is all pure speculation but to me it seems like the most logical explanation.
 
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This is actually quite a violation, we have a poor judicial system but if the judge knows his laws this will backfire. Essentially it's illegal to monitor local traffic, so any evidence obtained by monitoring it is useless in court.
 
Basjohn said:
This is actually quite a violation, we have a poor judicial system but if the judge knows his laws this will backfire. Essentially it's illegal to monitor local traffic, so any evidence obtained by monitoring it is useless in court.
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Unless the torrent was grabbed and used to connect to the publicly available tracker with the list of peers it presents. There are many, many ways other than packet sniffing to find and uploader.
 
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Unless the torrent was grabbed and used to connect to the publicly available tracker with the list of peers it presents. There are many, many ways other than packet sniffing to find and uploader.
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I thought most torrents transfer traffic through VPN's?
 
Going with the specualtion and trying to answer the question of which movie I'd guess "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom". With the current situation I'd assume the film makers want to keep it offline for as long as possible.

With regards to the comment about the hard drives Im 100% sure they using some sort of encryption on the hard drives and it'll take some work to crack it.
 
Memee said:
Going with the specualtion and trying to answer the question of which movie I'd guess "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom". With the current situation I'd assume the film makers want to keep it offline for as long as possible.
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Long walk to freedom isn't an SA film bud.
With regards to the comment about the hard drives Im 100% sure they using some sort of encryption on the hard drives and it'll take some work to crack it.
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The data is encrypted when it comes in, but has to be decrypted for the staff to have access to the content. It's basically what Glordit said, a simple copypasta.
 
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