The First HD DVD Movie Hits BitTorrent

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @06:55AM from the nailing-jello-to-a-tree dept.

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."

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From the "duh" department by dadagod · 2007-01-16 07:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

You know, at 19 GB it doesn't need DRM. Who's got the room to store hundreds of those?
Re:Probably not a good idea just yet by Criterion · 2007-01-16 08:11 · Score: 0, Redundant

What part of "unencrypted" do you not understand?

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