Fans Pirate 'Fifty Shades of Grey' More Than 400,000 Times Despite Shaky Copies
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Movie theaters aren’t the only place viewers are choosing to enjoy “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Pirated copies of the erotic drama from Universal Pictures were downloaded 453,109 times through Feb. 16, according to the monitoring firm Excipio GmbH. That’s more than twice as much, by comparison, as 2014’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” on its first weekend.
Poor-quality copies taken by camcorders at screenings appeared on file-sharing sites on Feb. 14 — the day after the R-rated movie, about a sadomasochistic love affair, was released in U.S. theaters. By Monday, the film was the fifth-most pirated in the U.S. Usually piracy doesn’t take hold without a high- quality version, according to the editor of the file-sharing news site TorrentFreak, who goes by the pseudonym Ernesto Van Der Sar. Embarrassment over going to theaters may be one reason it’s so popular, he said.
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