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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?
alt.binaries.hddvd?
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...
...you really can't stop the signal. :-)
--Ford Prefect
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.
The top post should have been, "Can't stop the signal"
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Yes, you can dance to Radiohead.
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...