A hacker stole most of the new season of Netflix's popular series, Orange Is the New Black, from a post-production studio and demanded ransom. Pictured is actress Taylor Schilling from the show, with the award she won for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series backstage at the 23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards.
A hacker who has unsuccessfully tried to hold Netflix for ransom has achieved an unexpected result: His failure shows that subscription-based business models in content distribution is making piracy pointless. Intellectual property owners' slowness in adopting these models is the only reason content is still being pirated.
Someone calling himself (or herself, or themselves) TheDarkOverlord stole most of the new season of Netflix's popular series, Orange Is the New Black, from a post-production studio and demanded ransom. Netflix refused to pay, and TheDarkOverlord put the stolen material on the Pirate Bay for anyone with a torrent client to download. But it's not likely that others the hacker or hackers are threatening – Fox, National Geographic and ABC – will pay up, either. Nor will Netflix regret its decision to hold on to its money: It's safe to say that its bottom line won't be affected; the most that might happen is that the fifth season of Orange will be released earlier than planned.
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