Movie Piracy has been a threat to movies ever since the internet was ever invented or ever really in the minds in the audience goers. The forefront of this problem comes from torrent sites these sites promise and promote movies that are in theaters to watch from the safety of your home. However while you click on the link you are brought to a site that supposedly has the full movie, and it will automatically play no clicking involved. The site will then bring you to a payment window not only are they taking your information but they are also selling it to another buyer which will then lead you to get more of those sites recommended to you, not only that but you will get about 200 virus on your pc, mac or other device. There really is no escape to this madness.
Bitsight reports, “malware infection rate for torrented applications (43%) and games (39%). If torrents have a high rate of malware infection, you’d expect to see companies that torrent more have more botnets. Bitsight looked at this too. Obviously, the larger a company, the more torrents you would expect to see, so this must be factored into the analysis.”
The majority of these sites use movies that are currently out to help lure into and click on the site so they can infect more computers with malware and to able to sell your data as mentioned above. This is a big reason why movie piracy is still a problem even so many years after the internets invention.
Information
Torrents: the good, the bad, and the ugly. (n.d.). Bitsight. https://www.bitsight.com/blog/torrents-good-bad-ugly
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