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 in various pirate locations.
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 είναι κάτι σαν ένα γιγαντιαίο board για μηνύματα, αλλά με τη δυνατότητα να μοιραστείτε εύκολα και γρήγορα large files.) οι ταινίες που μοιράζει η ομάδα Hive-CM8 they are all of high quality DVD screeners, τα οποία είναι copies ταινιών που αποστέλλονται σε people such as journalists and other film industry professionals for evaluation purposes.
Given the existence of many pirate channels and ways to illegally watch a movie (such as BitTorrent sites, storage sites όπως ήταν το Megaupload, ιδιωτικά IRC κανάλια, το προαναφερθέν Usenet, τα ιδιωτικά sites-ftps της Scene κλπ), δεν υπάρχει κανένας πραγματικός τρόπος για να προσδιοριστεί με ακρίβεια πόσες φορές μια ταινία έχει κατέβει παράνομα, αλλά μία αντι-πειρατική company called Excipio estimates that The Hateful Eight movie has been downloaded 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.