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("Deluxe"), was provided to me by Hahn. Deluxe was contracted byParamount Pictures ("Paramount") to search, download and reporton all unique sources of online piracy for the movie "TheFighter". Deluxe provides the entertainment industry withvarious services and technologies. De1uxe's report revealed thefollowing:a. On ..January 28 , 201-1, the peer to peer releasegroup I'TiMPErr released a high quality screener version of rrTheFighter" . They listed the source of the f i1e as being a ,t'720pSAG screener (mfg+inc) ".The "SAG screener" portion of the filename refers to video screeners that are made available to themembers of the Screen Actors Guild (*SAG'). The ..mf34inc,,portion of the file name would identify the source from whichTiMPE obtained the content. In this case TiMPE is not claimingto have uncovered the source themselves, but rather re-posting afile previously uploaded by a user or group going by the username"mf34inc".b. Because Deluxe had contracted with Paramount toinsert Deluxe watermarks into certain versions of The Fighter,Deluxe initiallyanalyzed the downloaded file for the presence ofa Deluxe watermark, but was unable to detect any j-n the frl-e. fnaddition, Deluxe could find no conclusive evidence that t.his filewas sourced from iTunes. Upon reporti-ng this information back toParamount, Deluxe was advised that Paramount had insertedspecifj-c identifying marks for the screener version supplied to
iTunes, the medium used for distribut,ion of these particularf i1ms. Upon further review, these Paramount ident,ifying marks j-nthe pirated file were verified to match those that appeared inthe copy Paramount supplied to iTunes.L2. Paramount contracted Deluxe to carry out an analysis onthe person or persons responsible for the uploading of 'rTheFighter". The goal of this analysis was to uncover the real lifeidentity of the uploader usj-ng the alias "mf34inc". The Deluxeinvestigation revealed the following information:a. A Google search for the term "mf34inc", combinedwith the key word "fighter", returns a details webpage for anupload of "The Fighter" at the BitTorrent websitethepiratebay.org. The webpage shows that the file was uploadedby a registered user going by the name "mf34inc", which is thesame name as found in the torrent file's name and the name of thegroup or individ.ual credited by TiMPE as the source for Lherelease of "The Fighter". The webpage lists the upload date andtime as ,fanuary 28, 20Ll, a.t 4:33 . De1uxe has determined thatthe time list.ed is in fact The Pirate Bay's server time, whichconverts to January 27, 20L1, 4t 7:33 PM PST. To the best ofDel-uxe's knowledge this is the earliest posting of this fl1e.b. At thepiratebay.crg website, viewers are able toclick on an uploader's user name in order to view all oi theuploads made by that individual. On ,January 28 , 20LI, clickingon the username "mf34inc" returned four uploads; "The Fighter'r,10
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