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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."
my 1.8 pentium M plays it significantly better than my dual athlon, I believe its related to memory bandwidth and that the athlon mp sucks relatively to the pentium M, though only other thing could be optimizations as the pentium has sse2 while the athlon you would need to use 3dnow.
wow, you are an idiot.
How many people are going to download it? 10,000? 20,000? 30,000? 100,000? 250? How many of those people are prepared to pay to watch it at the cinema, or buy the DVD compared with a free download that takes some of their time and effort, but also has some "look what I can do" factor? At what number does it become financially viable? How many of those people have seen it but didn't like it enough to buy it, but are happy to have a free copy?
BTW, Serenity was a load of twaddle and really doesn't need a follow-up film. That was a waste of two hours of my life - wanky plot and abysmal acting. Special effects can never make up for that. The franchise was killed and was unpopular for a reason. I'm tempted to download it though out of interest for the process and to what kind quality I get and effort to play it back...
Dont use maths on this crap.
Movie costs 140Million to make.
Gets it all back in the box office in first 2 weeks.
Therefore given manufacturing costs of DVD's. Each movie should cost 35cents at Walmart if its a blockbuster coz they already made their money?
No. They don't. There is no getting the cost of development money back when it comes to 99% of the movies being downloaded. In fact the more people who pirate movies the cheaper they become. In asia people dont buy pirated movies and they are less then a third of what we pay for legit copies. Because everywhere you go will be some guy and a set of DVDs with every latest movie for $1.
I hate DRM. I hate publishing studio's. I hate the MPAA/RIAA. I love Han Solo.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it