New CSI: Cyber show debuts on piracy sites ahead of broadcast
Irony alert: Leaked show is about stamping out cyber crime.
by David Kravets
Ars Technica
Mar 4, 2015 3:10pm CST
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/new-csi-cyber-show-debuts-on-piracy-sites-ahead-of-broadcast/
A new primetime CSI show about cyber crime is to debut Wednesday on CBS,
but it's already making its way on to pirate sites.
Featuring Patricia Arquette, CSI: Cyber is about the Cyber Crime
Division of the FBI that tackles illicit online behavior. Ironically,
the first episode was available on Tuesday, a full day ahead of its
scheduled premiere.
"The leaked footage comes from a high quality copy and doesn’t have any
visible watermarks," according to TorrentFreak.
The show will still air at 10pm ET this evening on CBS, and the network
has made a small preview available online. The five sneak peeks (all
numbered like software iterations—1.0, 2.0, and so on) don't give us
much hope for Blackhat-level dedication to realism, however. In the
premiere, a kidnapping sets up Arquette and partner James Van Der Beek
for one of the CSI franchise's patented crime scene walkthroughs. And if
unfamiliar with any of the now four CSI variants, even the most routine
of procedures quickly becomes dramatic.
"What are you guys doing?"
"Confiscating your devices. Faraday bags block the kidnappers from
communicating with your devices. The second we zip 'em up it's like
locking them in a lead vault."
Cue the zipping noises and the cool visual effect representing digital
lockdown; place it all over a pulsating soundtrack beat. If only this
debuted a few weeks before our March Hacker Madness poll, maybe we'd
have a new entrant.
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