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Does pirating movies that are only in cinemas have a different result to when they are released on disk/streaming services (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sorry for the swabbie question, but I tried to find a film (Saw X in particular) on quite a few different sites and all torrents/streams/downloads had baked in ads for online casinos and the like. Is this just a feature of piracy, or does something change when the film leaves the cinema? I'm not asking for links, so don't invoke rule 3. Stay safe me hearties 💰☠️

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

The releases with ads are often CAM or TS releases which are recorded at the movie theater with a camera

At least torrentgalaxy marks ad-ridden releases with a small red "ad" label which i filter out with a ublock origin filter torrentgalaxy.to##.fa-adversal:upward(3)

On other sites releases with ads might have the advertisement in the name like XBET

I'm usually not in a hurry to watch the newest movies so i wait for the webrip/dl versions of which the highest seeded versions have an extremely low probability of containing ads