Piracy

Today brings an odd story out of Russia, one that will be regrettably sure to provide online-piracy apologists with a sturdy talking point. Today, the Hollywood Reporter has relayed the strange tale of On-Drakon, a Russian indie with a title translating roughly to He Is a Dragon, whose producers signed a distribution deal with an offshoot of YL Entertainment, the rapidly expanding country’s larges

The issue of piracy has been causing something of a kerfuffle lately in light of the recent leak of an authorized screener copy of The Hateful Eight onto the Internet. A group of no-goodniks known as Hive-CM8 somehow came into possession of a high-quality copy of Quentin Tarantino’s latest film and proceeded to make it freely and readily available for whomsoever may want it, which an estimated 300