A scene group active in pirate cinema Movies and it's called Hive-CM8 says in its nfo that it plans to leak no less than 40 top Hollywood movies over the next few weeks.
Several of the most famous films of the year, including recent releases such as Concussion, Creed, Joy, are already available for download on various pirate sites.
We read in the nfo accompanying the recent Spotlight movie, which leaked during the night of Thursday 24 December 2015:
DVDScreener 9 of 40
will do them all one after another, 9th hot title (We'll do it all one after the other, 9's hot title)
According to a site survey NZBIndex.nl. in Usenet (the Usenet it's kind of like a giant message board, but with the ability to quickly and easily share large files.) the movies shared by the group Hive-CM8 they are all high quality DVD screeners, which they are copies films sent to people such as journalists and other film industry professionals for evaluation purposes.
Given the existence of many pirated channels and ways of seeing a movie illegally (such as BitTorrent sites, storage sites like Megaupload, private IRC channels, Usenet, private Scene sites, etc.), there is no one a real way to accurately determine how many times a movie has come down illegally, but an anti-piracy company called Excipio estimates that the movie The Hateful Eight has downloaded it over 1,3 million times within the first 24 hours of its availability.
The scene group Hive-CM8, whose motto seems to be "do it right the first time" has been around for at least five years and has illegally shared movies like The Social Network, The Hobbit, 12 Years a Slave, and Interstellar.
