09-05-02: Leaked Two Towers Footage a Myth

Ain't It Cool News
September 5, 2002

Leaked Two Towers Footage a Myth
Harry Knowles

Folks, Harry here... Well after Drudge made his premature declaration on his site that the 2nd LORD OF THE RINGS film had leaked online - without checking it out for himself it seems - I contacted various unsavory barbarians in the cyber trenches. The folks that are the scourge that traffic in this sort of travesties. In my line of work... Movie Spying, I happen to meet all sorts of types, not all of which stay on the side of Truth, Justice and the American Way.

I personally am against the pirating of films online, but that doesn't stop folks from mailing me VCDs and emailing me locations of files. Just because I don't like these things, because I don't traffic in these circles doesn't mean I don't stay on top of what is happening in the field. To anyone that has been scouring the shires in search for this flick, they'll attest that it is not online. There are files of enormous length purporting to be TWO TOWERS - but they are garbage files that do not contain mediocre video and audio for the upcoming epic. These are 'false echoes' tar baby's placed to trap unsuspecting fools that think this thing is online.

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