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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."
I might download it.
Which, I'm perfectly legal to do as I'm using direct FTP so the sharing is done by the uploading side.
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"It's so big they'll never have enough storage space!" ... !" -- Fill in whatever.
"It's so big they'll never have enough bandwidth!"
"It's so big they'll never have enough
These are no serious impediments. Pirates routinely download 5GB (and 9GB) DVDs all the time and they don't have problem with that. Their ISPs don't suddenly cap them. They don't suddenly find their quality of life has depreciated because they can't download enough porn.
It doesn't happen like that.
ISPs increase bandwidth. Hard drives get bigger. Writable media gets larger. Compression gets more advanced.
It's no big deal.
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I was skeptical when I saw the first article about HDDVDBackup, but there's definitely a posted title key on the Doom9 forum to correspond with this release. I guess the other 2 keys they posted should be released soon as well. The only way to truly implement volume encryption that can't be beaten is to avoid the software player altogether, as the title key needs to be in memory, if only briefly. The posts on the Doom9 forum claim that this is the way that title keys are extracted, and I'm inclined to believe them.
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Good job beating the DRM MAFIAA again! Information truly was meant to be free
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"The file was encoded in MPEG-4 VC-1"?
MPEG-4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_AVC and Microsoft's VC-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC1 are different standards...
Better get used to watching Serenity over and over because you're not likely to see any more movies released with PowerDVD keys. That takes care of software players for HDDVD and there will definitely be no software players for Blu-Ray.
There already are BluRay software players. Both PowerDVD and WinDVD have versions that support BluRay. Guess that's what happens when you talk off the top of your head with no facts or research to back things up.
Actually, fair use is not Constitutionally guaranteed. It comes from the common law, and the first codification of it was in the Copyright Act of 1976. Additionally, it's an affirmative defense, not a right. I only point this out because, if Slashdotters want it to be a right instead of a defense against criminal or civil penalties, they should lobby for it instead of assuming it is already a right.
I'd really like to see you get modded down because you're spreading falsehoods, not being insightful.
The rip on Pirate Bay is off an HDTV signal. This copy is directly off an HD-DVD and likely includes the interactive menus and all of the other content off the disk packaged in a single file.
/Mikael
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If you're going to complain about the quality of the content just buy it yourself at your preferred quality level. As the saying goes, "Beggars can't be choosers."
Just wait until the movies are compressed. An XviD encode of a 20 minute episode of The Office which is 960x544 is 350MB (290MB is video data, 60MB is audio). Double each dimension (to get approx. 1080p), and the filesize will grow, with 4x290MB+60MB=1220MB as an upper limit (of course, it will be smaller than this). Thus, two hours of XviD at 1080p would be, at most, 7320MB. Factor in 5.1, 6.1 or 7.1 audio, and you still won't exceed the size of one dual layer DVD. Then, use the x264 codec instead of XviD, and you'll get an even smaller filesize at near the original source's quality. All on one dual layer DVD. With optimizations, the file size will shrink even further (multipass encoding, adjustments of the quantization, etc.). Presumably TV shows released online are only singlepass, as the competition seems to be who can get the show out the fastest (typically a few hours after the show comes on).
You mean, you'd need four of those drives to store all 100 movies, which is $576 vs. the $2,000 to buy all 100 movies, rather than needing for 500 gig drives to store each 20 gig movie.
The article is about Serenity, not Firefly. I know Serenity is a continuation of Firefly, but it happens to not contain any part of the Ballad of Serenity (strangely enough). I agree with the other posters who said the correct ref would be "Can't stop the signal."
Centralization breaks the internet.
While not 40Gbps, you should try a well-wired college campus. Generally a lot of peers in the dorms and Gigabit Ethernet or better.
He probably forgot. But we shouldn't forget that the URSS was the greatest ally of Germany from way before the war, by reaming Germany, and for a great part of the war itself, when Hitler and Stalin delimited the countries and borders each would control.
Stalin only turned Hitler's worst enemy when Hitler betrayed him by violating the Ribbentrop-Molotov non-aggression pact and invading URSS-owned territories and then Russia itself. Weren't for this and Stalin wouldn't have opposed him in the slightest.
Conservatism: (n.) love of the existing evils. Liberalism: (n.) desire to substitute new evils for the existing ones.
The Chronicles of Riddick, Batman Begins, and Pitch Black.