The Hateful Eight piracy leak traced to DVD sent to Hollywood producer

Alcon Entertainment CEO Andrew Kosove denies the watermarked DVD ever reached him, and plans to launch an independent investigation into the leak

The source of the online leak of Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight has been traced to an awards-season DVD screener that had been sent to a leading Hollywood studio executive.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the pirated version of The Hateful Eight available from some file-sharing sites bears a digital watermark that identifies it as a DVD sent to Andrew Kosove, co-CEO of Alcon Entertainment, a major production and finance outfit involved in films such as The 33, Transcendence and the recent remake of Point Break.