Sorry for the swabbie question, but I tried to find a film (Saw X in particular) on quite a few different sites and all torrents/streams/downloads had baked in ads for online casinos and the like. Is this just a feature of piracy, or does something change when the film leaves the cinema? I’m not asking for links, so don’t invoke rule 3. Stay safe me hearties 💰☠️

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    It’s rare to get a high quality pirate copy until the movie is released on disc or streaming services. Once that happens, you’ll get perfect copies. Until then, it’s probably a “CAM” version which means somebody filming it in the cinema. The betting/casino ads are common with those these days.

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    1 year ago

    If it doesn’t get leaked or streamed, it’s usually just a cam (filmed with a camera). Honestly, I’ve never seen a good cam video, and they all have weird ads like you say. It’s better to wait IMO.

    The Barbie Movie was on there quick! I’m still waiting for Oppenheimer.

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    1 year ago

    The releases with ads are often CAM or TS releases which are recorded at the movie theater with a camera

    At least torrentgalaxy marks ad-ridden releases with a small red “ad” label which i filter out with a ublock origin filter torrentgalaxy.to##.fa-adversal:upward(3)

    On other sites releases with ads might have the advertisement in the name like XBET

    I’m usually not in a hurry to watch the newest movies so i wait for the webrip/dl versions of which the highest seeded versions have an extremely low probability of containing ads

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    You downloaded fake files. Bad actors and movie studios know all too well their exclusive theater-only film is going to be a target of pirates. They flood torrent sites with fake versions of their movie to dilute the pool of cam rips with bullshit to make it harder for pirates to download their film.

    Saw X is still in theaters. Therefore, the best you can hope for is a handheld camcorder version of the movie.