LG Shows How To Play Pirated Movies On TV

[snowmanrene]

LG Shows How To Play Pirated Movies On TV

Some of the newer LG TVs have USB support, allowing consumers to hook up an external drive to their screen in order to view photos, listen to music, or enjoy a movie. In the manual that comes with these devices, LG doesn?t try to hide the most popular use for this feature as they show customers how to play a pirated movie.

Using pirated films as promotional material to sell consumer electronics is nothing new. The John Lewis store has used aXXo rips to sell iMacs in the past and Saturn, Europe?s largest retailer of consumer electronics, showed pirated films to sell Macbooks.

In these previous cases the pirated films were only on display in the stores, but the multinational electronics company LG takes it a step further. The company is selling TVs that have the functionality to accept a connection from an external USB device. This allows customers to enjoy pictures, music and videos directly on their TVs, all with a piracy endorsement from the manufacturer.

In the packaged English language manual, LG does not try to obfuscate the true purpose of this nifty USB feature ? playing pirated movies. In the picture below, LG included pirated versions of The Incredibles and The Aviator, while explaining how easy it is to play the films directly on a TV.

How to play pirated movies on your LG TV

LG seems to understand perfectly what customers want, but we doubt that the movie studios will be very excited about this piracy endorsement from the Koreans. Whether the pirated films were included intentionally is unknown, we expect that a company employee simply downloaded the movies off a file-sharing service out of habit or convenience.

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Source: TorrentFreak

snowmanrene Reviewed by snowmanrene on 5th Feb 2010. LG Shows How To Play Pirated Movies On TV LG Shows How To Play Pirated Movies On TV Some of the newer LG TVs have USB support, allowing consumers to hook up an external drive to their screen in order to view photos, listen to music, or enjoy a movie. In the manual that comes with these devices, LG doesn?t try to hide the most popular use for this feature as they show customers how to play a pirated movie. http://www.besthostingforums.com/images/cdn/besthostingforums.com/2010/02/logolg-1.png Using pirated films as promotional Rating: 5

[DJ Norix]

Someone sue LG !

[shadow.prx]

lmfao

[ACE]

I really LOL'ed when I saw it.

[oOo]

Damn lol I have an LG tv with USB :/ Now I wish I read the manual a bit earlier ...

[Th3_Narcissist]

I have a Samsung HDTV.

[SLiMRiDER]

I have a Samsung HDTV.

Yeah same lol.

[litewarez]

Well they know most web users download movies so showing them How to Play "a" movie that could of been ripped by the owner for backup purposes is legel

[Chutad]

OFF

Well they know most web users download movies so showing them How to Play "a" movie that could of been ripped by the owner for backup purposes is legel

dr u go

ON
lol, this is really gr8 for increasing their sells..!!

[SceneMan]

Well they know most web users download movies so showing them How to Play "a" movie that could of been ripped by the owner for backup purposes is legel

Who puts RePack in the movie name apart from release groups though lol