Message to Pirates of the Caribbean hackers – piracy no longer pays
by Gavin Haynes from Technology | The Guardian on (#2PT6B)
Hackers hoped Disney would pay up when they threatened to leak Dead Men Tell No Tales online - but have they scuppered the wrong vessel?
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, due out on 26 May, was only 10 days from release when hackers stole a copy from a post-production company in LA.
They demanded a ransom, believed to be $80,000 (61,700) - peanuts for a franchise that has pulled in $3bn globally. They threatened that, if the ransom wasn't paid, they would release the film to torrent sites in chunks, carved up like shark bait.
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