New CSI: Cyber show debuts on piracy sites ahead of broadcast

A new primetime CSI show about cyber crime is to debut Wednesday on CBS, but it's already making its way on to pirate sites.

Featuring Patricia Arquette, CSI: Cyber is about the Cyber Crime Division of the FBI that tackles illicit online behavior. Ironically, the first episode was available on Tuesday, a full day ahead of its scheduled premiere.

"The leaked footage comes from a high quality copy and doesn’t have any visible watermarks," according to TorrentFreak.

The show will still air at 10pm ET this evening on CBS, and the network has made a small preview available online. The five sneak peeks (all numbered like software iterations—1.0, 2.0, and so on) don't give us much hope for Blackhat-level dedication to realism, however. In the premiere, a kidnapping sets up Arquette and partner James Van Der Beek for one of the CSI franchise's patented crime scene walkthroughs. And if unfamiliar with any of the now four CSI variants, even the most routine of procedures quickly becomes dramatic.

"What are you guys doing?"

"Confiscating your devices. Faraday bags block the kidnappers from communicating with your devices. The second we zip 'em up it's like locking them in a lead vault."

Cue the zipping noises and the cool visual effect representing digital lockdown; place it all over a pulsating soundtrack beat. If only this debuted a few weeks before our March Hacker Madness poll, maybe we'd have a new entrant.

One day before the broadcast was on torrents :rofl:
Nice tv show, just like the rest of the CSIs.