Where is this Purported 'Wolverine' Torrent?

The Web is a-titter with rumors about the 'Wolverine' movie, which was apparently leaked onto a torrent site last night. Interesting, no? We're on the road right now but wanted to see if any of you have found the torrent or have actually seen it. If so tell us what you think of it in the comments section. Meantime here's what a Fox mouthpiece told Variety:

“'We forensically mark our content so we can identify sources that make it available or download it,' a Fox spokesman said. 'The source of the initial leak and any subsequent postings will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law -- the courts have handed down significant criminal sentences for such acts and the last person who committed such a crime is still in jail.'

Fox said it will pursue the breach as aggressively as possible with the help of the MPAA, FBI and local law enforcement.'"

Right, well good luck with that because odds are whoever did it was smart enough to cover his tracks. Or, maybe he used OneSwarm, the anonymous P2P torrent site.

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington on "Free" Music

TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington made some salient points today (we posted a bit below) about the legality and morality issues surrounding downloading music without paying for it. Whether you copy a friend's cd or download torrents, it's stealing. The question is whether it's wrong given the vast accessibility of music through, for example Pandora, Grooveshark and any of the various "radio" stations on the Web that allow you to choose which music you listen to.

The issue is further blurred by the recent addition of mobile applications that mash your phones with sites providing selectable music. See when the tunes are limited to your home PC it's one thing, but it's another when you can take it with you, right? Well it was only a matter of time until this happened. No longer do you have to suffer through endless ads while you wait for your music. And that means someone is losing money, and that's bad. Anyway here's a blurb from Arrington's post. Mike if you're reading this (he's not reading this) thanks for the inspiration.

"But over the last few years the line has blurred to the point where there really isn’t any line any more. We can listen to free, on demand streaming music at MySpace Music and lots of other sites. It’s ok to do it at MySpace, but it’s wrong to do it at Project Playlist, just because the right contracts aren’t in place? Just a couple of years ago anyone listening to free streaming music anywhere on the Internet was violating copyright and subject to being labeled unethical. Today, its no problem. And you don’t even have to listen to audio ads.

But downloading music, that’s still wrong, right? Nope. If you live in China, you can download music legally from Google for free. No problem.

Above I said I wanted to put the law aside for a moment. Now I’ll come back to it. Because the law, and particularly the U.S. government’s willingness to perpetuate the absurdity of copyright law as it applies to recorded music, is all that the labels have left. No one in their right mind could formulate an argument that downloading music on the Internet is “wrong” at this point. All the labels have left is the law."

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