Stars, of course it would have had to be someone working on the film... or a super-cool-ninja-cat burglar... with lazer beam eyes!!!
They could have easily (snail) mailed it to their Canadian or Korean cousin, or given it to a visiting friend to view because it was cool, then *poof* internetz. I imagine anyone working on this movie would have been heavily briefed on the seriousness of leaking it to the public, so they wouldn't just go home with it and upload it using their home IP address.
Also, it's not "The End" of downloading music and movies, it's perfectly fine and legal in Canada (so far) and movie theatres and music stores are still raking in the $.
I don't really care if I can easily go download Wolverine, I'm still going to see it in the theatres. What can I say, I like popcorn ;)
it's a little naïve to assume it was done with ftp's, servers IP addresses and ISP's in the US. I would imagine anyone who would do something like this - on this big of a scale with potential massive repercussions would be doing this using resources outside the US.
For instance, ISP's in Canada, most of Europe and Asia don't give a toss what you upload or download and US law can't touch it.
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They could have easily (snail) mailed it to their Canadian or Korean cousin, or given it to a visiting friend to view because it was cool, then *poof* internetz. I imagine anyone working on this movie would have been heavily briefed on the seriousness of leaking it to the public, so they wouldn't just go home with it and upload it using their home IP address.
I don't really care if I can easily go download Wolverine, I'm still going to see it in the theatres. What can I say, I like popcorn ;)
For instance, ISP's in Canada, most of Europe and Asia don't give a toss what you upload or download and US law can't touch it.
Virus, LOL!