A pirated version of Star Trek Into Darkness has been available on YouTube since Sunday night — now for over 24 hours. The highly-anticipated movie was released Friday.
Two identical 120-minute videos of the film (a "FULL MOVIE" and a "copy") were uploaded Sunday at approximately 8:30 a.m. ET. and 7:24 p.m. ET.
Fifteen year-old YouTube user "Spockyy1231," seen here, uploaded both Star Trek videos to his channel.
Star Trek Into Darkness is 129 minutes long and the YouTube videos capture everything except the opening scene. It appears to have been shot on a hand-held camera in a movie theater.
The "FULL MOVIE" was taken down from YouTube at approximately 7:21 p.m. ET on Sunday, but the copy of the video is still currently online.
After the takedown, Spockyy1231 gave the remaining pirated video the exact same title as the one that had just been removed by YouTube.
People are beginning to share the movie on Twitter and Facebook, so it remains to be seen how much longer this pirated copy will remain online.
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The comments on the video, which has garnered 1200 new views in the past hour, reveal an interesting difference of opinion between people who found the pirated version of the sci-fi thriller.
The teenager who uploaded the pirated copies of the film is very visibly a huge fan of Star Trek -- his YouTube channel consists almost entirely of Star Trek videos.
BuzzFeed has reached out for comment to Spockyy1231 and Paramount.
UPDATE - 9:13 p.m. ET: The video has been removed due to a copyright claim by Paramount.
