In the category of life imitating art, consider this a hall of mirrors: TV’s most popular drama about the CIA’s fight over secrecy has experienced its very own security breach. Homeland’s third season is scheduled to make its debut on Showtime on Sept. 29. But as of this past weekend, you can find the first episode — minus the credits and a few special effects — on BitTorrent.
Leaked pop albums tend to hog our online-piracy attention, but TV shows and films are popular targets, too. Back in 2007, the first episodes of several shows — including "Weeds," "Pushing Daisies," "Californication" and "Dexter" — circulated online a month or two before their premiere dates. In 2009, when a version of the movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine showed up online a month before it hit theaters, Fox enlisted the FBI and eventually tracked it back to a New York man named Gilberto Sanchez. He admitted to uploading the movie to MegaUpload and was ultimately sentenced to one year in prison. Fox also went after uploaders in 2005 when a version of Read more...
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