How do illegal streaming sites to watch movies and TV shows have movies on their site that are just released into theaters in such good quality? I’m not talking about shaky, filmed in the theater with a video camera, these movies are perfect. How do they do this? Where do these copies come from so soon after the movie is released into theaters and how do these illegal streaming sites get ahold of them?
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Sometimes they are advanced screeners for different organisations, sometimes they are private screenings that are filmed, sometimes they are just ripped from legal streaming sites
They usually send good copies for the festival selection prior to official premiere and in the process it gets leaked.
A lot of them are high def copies that were sent to individual important people as a matter of privilege or film critics. These ones are individually watermarked so if you see an early movie with nonsense in the corner, somebody is probably getting sued for the leak.
The most common thing is simply that the film is released digitally online somewhere in the world pretty early.
Digital rentals are often very quick and get released even when the film is still airing in theaters. So pirates make copies of that.
A few recent examples are Mario, Flash, Transformers…
What are these websites you speak of? Asking for a friend.
All sorts of digital copies of movies go to different places for previews or screening whilst they’re in cinemas.
Some of the places they go are leaky.
once upon a time the Academy of Motion Pictures sent out DVDs to some of its members for review before the Oscars. Mail would get intercepted and a lot of copies would flood the market. hypothetical of course.
There was this group known as evo who used to get some amazing quality rips from possible industry insiders or from dvd printing plants they’ve since been arrested for this.
A great-aunt by marriage used to have a seat on the Academy and would receive screener DVDs months before the movies would come out so she could evaluate them for various criteria. Often, she’d never watch them and mail them to our (ex-wife and mine) house and we would enjoy them with our friends and nearby family members. We watched several Spiderman, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc. months before they came out in theaters. These copies were digitally watermarked with a member-unique code, so that if the movie was leaked online and discovered, the leak would instantly be known.
Well nowadays after a week or so in theaters, it gets put on one of the many streaming services. So some smarty pants rips it and uploads it. Voila
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