Kiosk delivers pirated movies to USB sticks in the middle of a mall
From: Ars Technica
“Maintenance” man torrents all day, then sells movies for 13 cents a pop in Ethiopia.
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But what if you could download Hollywood flicks to a USB drive at a convenient kiosk for just a few cents each? And do so while shopping at your local mall? This sounds like a dream of convenient and cheap entertainment, but it’s just one more piracy nightmare for the entertainment industry.
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“Basically, you go to this very big store, and you approach the machine, and you plug in a USB drive,” the anonymous reader, who provided photos, told TorrentFreak. “The screen will turn on, and it will let you browse through a massive archive of movies.”
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