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Itunes accidentally leaks Thor Ragnarok online
| This can sometimes involve people intercepting, stealing, or borrowing DVD screener discs, for example. However, other problems can unexpectedly raise their heads.
Case in point – the pre-release leak of Marvel’s Thor Ragnarok this past weekend.
With a disc release planned for February 26th just four months after the superhero movie’s theatrical debut, digital distribution on iTunes was set to go ahead on February 19th.
| However, due to what appears to be a significant blunder at Apple, the $180 million movie is now being furiously pirated all over the Internet. A small sample of the latest leak (all releases with an upload date of ‘today’) can be seen in the screenshot below, sourced from The Pirate Bay.
So what went wrong? According to a user on Reddit who has since deleted his post, a legal pre-order purchase was incorrectly made available for download a month early.
| “I pre-ordered Thor Ragnarok on Vudu yesterday and it links it to my iTunes also,” the user explained.
“But curiously it showed up in my iTunes library this morning (pre-orders shouldn’t). And now I can watch the full movie in HD. I obviously downloaded it right away. I know its supposed to come out February 20th.”
https://torrentfreak.com/thor-ragnarok-furiously-pirated-after-itunes-pre-order-blunder-180122/
| Maybe it was intentional and being used as a marketing ploy?
| Unlikely, I doubt something that costly would intentionally be fucking its physical sales, probably a blunder and a fired IT guy or a rouge worker
| Not the RO I wanted.
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| Marvel's Thor Ragnarok was due it be released digitally on February 19th. However, some kind of blunder at Apple means that people using MoviesAnywhere and Vudu were offered it for immediate download via iTunes. Copies are now all over the Internet and getting pirated at a furious rate.
When perfect copies of movies leak out onto the Internet in advance of their official release dates, there’s usually an element of skullduggery at play.