Ajay's curiosity—and greed—got the better of him. He agreed. The drive contained a high-res Malayalam film, "Kovalan," set to premiere in two days. Ajay realized the file had been ripped from a studio's editing suite using a "cloud siphon" —a hack he’d read about in cybercrime forums. Using his skills, he converted the 4K video into a 720p MP4 "repack" optimized for torrent sites, then seeded it across ThiruttuvCD’s network.