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Originally Posted by JPAC
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Web-based services of dubious legality. Well, the services themselves are legal, but the sharing of copyrighted material is a civil infringement and in some cases criminal. Newsgroups and BitTorrent were always the major ones.
The War of the Worlds is a major international co-production that has already been broadcast elsewhere in the world. Hence copies of it are out there. I suspect that's one of the reasons the BBC hasn't kept it for its Christmas schedule (it was originally earmarked for Christmas 2018 but the post-production ran into difficulties with the special effects). The other reason would be that the reviews haven't been brilliant.
I watched it tonight as broadcast. It was good enough but it looks like they haven't been able to resist the urge to use it to be massively preachy about early 20th century conceptions of morality and empire (extrapolating far beyond anything HG Wells may have had in mind).