Brad Pitt movie a piracy hit following Sony studio cyberattack

Brad Pitt’s war movie ‘Fury’ has been a hit on file-sharing sites since it was stolen in a Nov. 25 cyberattack on Sony Corp’s film and TV studio. The World War II drama, which was released Oct. 17, has been downloaded 500,000 times from one service alone since the Sony attack, said Ernesto Van Der Sar, whose TorrentFreak news site tracks copyright, privacy and related issues. Entertainment industry news service Variety.com reported the number of downloads may exceed 1.2 million across multiple sites, citing piracy tracking firm Excipio.

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