The new Super Mario movie is supposed to fill the cinemas, but last weekend 9 million people watched the movie illegally on Twitter.
What kind of film is this? The Super Mario Bros. Movie is the latest film from popular video game hero Mario. For decades, the red-hatted plumber has been jumping across screens battling the evil Bowser turtle and rescuing Princess Peach. This is also the case in the new film adaptation, in which Mario is spoken by actor Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy, Jurrassic World).
The toxic turtle Bowser is voiced by Jack Black, who sparked wild theories with one of the film’s songs.
You can see a trailer for the film here:
First trailer for the “Super Mario” movie – made entirely of CGI
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How was the film shown? Some users posted the new “Super Marios Bros.” movie on Twitter in violation of copyright laws.
The users divided the film into two sections each with English voice acting, which were a maximum of 60 minutes long. The first part of the film was played over 9 million times.
As early as April 29, our colleagues from GamePro reported that an Argentine TV station had shown the film without permission and thus violated copyright (via GamePro).
Thanks to Elon Musk, long videos are now possible on Twitter
How is that possible? In October 2022, eccentric billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter, bringing with him some changes affecting the length of videos that can be posted to Twitter. This is actually limited to 140 seconds.
But Musk changed the way the verifications (blue ticks) work on Twitter and since then every user can subscribe to “Twitter Blue” for just under €9.50. However, the subscription not only brings the blue tick, but also a number of advantages – including that “Twitter Blue” subscribers can upload videos up to 60 minutes long, which are a maximum of 2 GB in size (via Twitter.com).
The users who shared the film on Twitter were Twitter Blue users and were therefore able to upload the film in two parts.
Is the film still on Twitter? No, in the meantime Nintendo has reacted. The posts showing the film were deleted due to apparent copyright violations. Furthermore, the users who shared the film were blocked.
Nintendo is known for taking action against anyone who violates the company’s rights and just celebrated a court award of over €400,000 in damages from the operator of the Dstorage site in April.
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