Until now, illicit “Star Wars” copies have been a closely guarded prize. “I feel a disturbance in the force, as if an entire planet's Internet Service Providers are all crying out at once, 'What's going on with the bandwidth!?,” wrote one commenter. Now, after months in which the only “Star Wars” torrents were recorded in theaters on a camcorder, at least 250,000 users have downloaded Blu-ray copies of the film, TorrentFreak reported.įive different “Star Wars” files made up the most shared movies on Kickass Torrents, the most popular piracy website in the world. The companies have issued tens of thousands of copyright infringement advisories since the movie was released in theaters on Dec.
It's the deluge of high-quality torrents so many have been waiting for after Disney and Lucasfilm have been so effective at issuing takedown requests against any site that made an illicit copy of the film available. Hundreds of thousands of international pirates have downloaded Blu-ray copies of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” since the movie leaked to sites like Kickass Torrents, the Pirate Bay and others Tuesday night, two weeks before it was scheduled to hit shelves.Īt least a dozen copies of the 2015 movie, one of the highest-grossing films of all time, are available on various piracy sites. But pirated copies are already available. "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" DVD was recently revealed to contain new footage featuring Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Rey (Daisy Ridley) in DVD extras when it comes out in the spring of 2016.
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