Kuchera's hypocracy: Piracy is wrong when Forbes links to it, but fine when he links to it.... four times. This was originally posted by Logan Mac over on reddit, felt it should be here too: This is from an anon from /gamergate/ signal boosting here This involves the misadventures of Ben Kuchera promoting fan edits with unauthorized film footage…. on a gaming publication, no less As a refresher, Ben Kuchera tends to advocate film piracy from time to time, especially if the film happens to be a fan edit or an unreleased-director’s-cut-definitive-edition-omfg-download-now sort of thing. His magma opus for his pro-pirate stance is a peculiar Polygon article headlined, >"You can watch an ‘unaltered’ version of Star Wars in HD today, if you bend the law.” https://archive.today/C56jE Bennyboy can be pretty sneaky. In the youtube video Ben linked to, the video description provides a link to a paste bin, which then leads you to a list of instructions in order to acquire the Despecialized Edition. Basically, Polygon article -> Youtube Video -> Pastebin -> Torrent ANYWAYS, THE HOBBIT Five months later, Bennyboy is back with another fascinating tale of another legendary yet “legally-problematic” fan-edit. Enter, The Hobbit: The Tolkien Edit. Basically, it’s Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy with all the filler bullshit cut out. Sounds awesome, right? https://archive.today/qfpju Well, here’s the catch. The Tolkien Edit covers all three of Jackson’s Hobbit films. Also, the third and final film just came out in theaters a month ago, and has yet to see an official Blu-Ray release to date. How exactly did this anon editor get ahold of the third Hobbit film, in 720p no less? As with most fan edits, take a wild guess. Oh, and Ben Kuchera directly links the website hosting the fan-edit at the bottom of the article, listed as “Source." He basically points his readers directly to the torrent. So, in this case: Polygon article -> Host of fan-edit -> Torrent And how exactly did Bennyboy found out about this magnificent fan-edit? Once again, check down at the bottom of the article: io9. A film/tech/“geek” blog owned by Gawker Media. Of course https://archive.today/izCLd Now, ask yourselves this: how would Polygon’s advertisers feel about plugging their products on a website that advocates fan-editted torrents and film piracy, especially when linking the source of the torrent directly in the article? Hell, I doubt a majority of their advertisers are even aware of the existence of these articles. It’s worth mentioning that Ben Kuchera isn’t the only one from the Polygon Bunch who advocated film piracy. Back in July 2014, a massive HD torrent of the Expendables 3 leaked online late July, well before its theater release date in August 15th. David Pierce from The Verge decided to torrent the film on his laptop. In fact, he watched it twice. He then proceeded to write an article headlined, >“I torrented ‘The Expendables 3’ and I’m still going to see it in theaters.”  Subtitle: >Why a leak could be the best thing that ever happened to Sylvester Stallone.” https://archive.today/USKOm These fucking guys tl;dr - Ben Kuchera wrote another article on Polygon about advocating film piracy. Also, if Polygon’s advertisers happen to find out about this article, they may not too pleased  The drama between Kain and Kuchera brought us this marvel https://twitter.com/erikkain/status/296336960597946369