The piracy group behind the leaked version of The Hateful Eight, Spectre, The Big Short and many other big budget movies have publicly apologized.
According to Business Insider, Hive-CM8 has spoken out on why they decided to leak such popular movies and how uploading the films online before the official release was to help the film industry.
“We didnt [sic] plan to comment at all on recent events, but we feel now that we should,” said Hive-CM8 in a statement. “Sorry to disappoint, but there was no hack or any such thing. We got the copies sold from a guy on the street, no decryption was needed. We were definitely not the only ones.”
“Sorry to disappoint, but there was no hack or any such thing. We got the copies sold from a guy on the street, no decryption was needed. We were definitely not the only ones.”
The group, which recently uploaded Anomalisa and Big Short, argues that their leaks will “hopefully help producers out in the longrun.” In fact, Hive-CM8 says “We actually think this has created a new type of media hype that is more present in the news, radio and in the papers than starwars [sic], and the promotional costs for this were free.”
“If lets [sic] say 5% of the people planned to watch this movie at cinemadate [sic], due to this media push we unintenionally [sic] created, we believe that now 40% of the people will watch this movie in the cinema cause [sic] everyone is talking about it and everyone wants to see the movie that created so much noise. This will push the cinema tickets sale for sure.”
Hive-CM8 went to thank Quentin Tarantino for directing Hateful Eight, praising the director’s filmmaking style.
“The Hateful Eight is an excellent, thrilling and entertaining Western that combines terrific direction, a fantastic cast, a wonderful script, beautiful photography and a memorable score,” the group said. “All of those elements make The Hateful Eight an unforgettable film that is Quentin Tarantino at his best … we also think that the hateful 8 movie is the top candidate for the awards and will win by a mile over others thx tarantino for this wonderful movie.”
One of the leaked movies was linked to Hollywood film executive Andrew Kosove, co-CEO of Alcon Entertainment. According to reports, “Tom” signed for the DVD at Alcon’s offices. Later, a hacker or hackers identifying themselves as Hive-CM8 uploaded the Hateful Eight movie after attempting to remove a watermark from the DVD.
Hive-CM8 planned on releasing 40 movies in total. But, the hacking group says they won’t reach that goal. Instead, they don’t plan to leak another movie before it’s released in theaters. “Sorry it was around christmas we didnt plan that at all either, we wont do another movie before its cinedate, and we def wont go up to 40 as planned, we think we have done enough already [sic],” the group said.
You can read the full apology below:
We didnt plan to comment at all on recent events, but we feel now that we should.
Sorry to disappoint M but there was no hack or any such thing. We got the copies sold from a guy on the street, no decryption was needed. we were definately not the only ones. cpl other movies have been on the net days before, not done from us So we wanted to share this movies with the people who are not rich enough or not able to watch all nominated movies in the cinema.
Of course this files are not representing the movies how they can be enjoyed in the cinema
As said in our nfo, please support the producers and watch all movies in the cinema on a big screen, like you should do anyhow. The Producers need the money from ticket sales to get back the production costs.
As for Hateful Eight Movie:
We feel sorry for the trouble we caused by releasing that great movie before cinedate even has begun. we never intended to hurt anyone by doing that, we didnt know it would get that popular that quickly
The Hateful Eight is an excellent, thrilling and entertaining Western that combines terrific direction, a fantastic cast, a wonderful script, beautiful photography and a memorable score. All of those elements make The Hateful Eight an unforgettable film that is Quentin Tarantino at his best.
Since everyone is now talking about this movie we dont think the producers will loose any money at cinedate, and we tell you now why. we actually think this has created a new type of media hype that is more present in the news, radio and in the papers than starwars, and the promotional costs for this were free
If lets say 5% of the people planned to watch this movie at cinemadate, due to this media push we unintenionally created, we believe that now 40% of the people will watch this movie in the cinema cause everyone is talking about it and everyone wants to see the movie that created so much noise. this will push the cinema tickets sale for sure.
we really hope this helped out the producers in the longrun, so that the production costs are covered and more
we also think that the hateful 8 movie is the top candidate for the awards and will win by a mile over others thx tarantino for this wonderful movie
sorry it was around christmas we didnt plan that at all either, we wont do another movie before its cinedate, and we def wont go up to 40 as planned, we think we have done enough already.
cheers
