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The First HD DVD Movie Hits BitTorrent
Ars Technica reports that the first HD DVD movie has made its way onto BitTorrent, showing that current DRM efforts to prevent illegal sharing of copyrighted content are still futile and fighting an uphill battle. From the article: "The pirates of the world have fired another salvo in their ongoing war with copy protection schemes with the first release of the first full-resolution rip of an HD DVD movie on BitTorrent. The movie, Serenity, was made available as a .EVO file and is playable on most DVD playback software packages such as PowerDVD. The file was encoded in MPEG-4 VC-1 and the resulting file size was a hefty 19.6 GB."
No direct link to the torrent? What kind of submission is that?
But you can obviously take the bandwidth! At least temporarily...
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alt.binaries.hddvd?
Case closed. Give it up, MPAA, your days are numbered. Just like Windows, soon you won't be needed anymore.
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The First HD DVD Movie Hits BitTorrent
News at 11:00.
On Bit Torrent at 11:05.
Have you read my journal today?
I'll be in my bunk...
At these file sizes, I, for one, do not aim to misbehave.
] D
Right. BitTorrent isn't a dump truck. You have to send it through the tubes.
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> Maybe they'll come up with a distributed storage system where the pirated file is split up over
> 10-20 machines.
I get it - you have to borrow 20 machines if you want to watch a film. No, it makes sense, I never thought of that.
...you really can't stop the signal. :-)
--Ford Prefect
They have gone to enormous trouble to find your little friend... and found her they have. Do you all know what it is you're carrying?
> ...but I bet the MPAA is watching the peer list on this torrent very, very carefully.
"Dave...what's this TOR thing I keep seeing on the ip list?"
"It means we have no chance of catching whoever's sharing their files though it"
"Ah."
Is this news?
Absolutely. If pirates are willing to rip off a HD version of "Serenity", then there should be enough demand to make another movie.
Nah, that's what Blu-ray burners are for ;)
But when I see that stuff being offered to me as if it's some kind of precious gift, I'm flabbergasted. Why would someone give me Budweiser under the label "Chimay" and claim "it's just as good"? Why would I seek such things out?
Because it's 'rar'ed and broken down into 16MB chunks, of course.
900 is the future? You, like me, must be in North America. My Japanese friends would be crying in their cups of hot sake if their speeds dropped to such a low level.
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." A. Huxley
And for anime/full series viewers...
...1 kb/s...1 kb/s! I paid for the broadband now give me my movies!
1.) Download it.
2.) Continue downloading it.
3.) Oh shit, your seeds just left.
4.)
5.) Its been 2 weeks...dear lord...2...weeks...the horror...the horror
6.) Watch
7.) Delete
((Repeat without fragmenting till your harddrive begins to play wav files of itself screaming))
But of course pirates will put HD-DVDs on there. They'll put anything and everything they can up...because its a business! Pirate sites makes serious revenue with ads, and the revenue is fueled by having content!
Ginga no Rekshiya Mata Each page.
The top post should have been, "Can't stop the signal"
DRM Engineering team: $1.2 million.
Marketing for release of first movie: $3 million
Having some wiseass kid from Sweden post a torrent of your movie the day before the commercial release: Priceless.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
*calls Comcast*
For security, the MD5 hash of this message and sig is 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0.
Supposing you get 150 KB/s sustained on the torrent, your computer's still going to be chewing on it for over 37 hours.
But I want SERENITY NOW!!!
January 16, 2007 Headline: The First HD DVD Movie Hits BitTorrent
April 22, 2029 Headline: The First HD DVD Movie Finishes Downloading from BitTorrent
Yes, you can dance to Radiohead.
"Dave...what's this TOR thing I keep seeing on the ip list?"
"It means they have no chance of completing their 20GB download before the next format wars start."
"Ah."
There.. fixed that for you.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
...insanity later
There was talent involved with the production of Serenity?
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Considering how long bittorrent takes to download anything, let alone anything that's 20GB, it'd take less time to work overtime to earn the money to buy the DVD, then walk to the shop and back, that it would take to download via bittorrent.
If your usage drops below 20 GB a day on a swedish internet connection, i think they come knocking on the door to check if you're still alive...