The BitTorrent Legend Returns: I Am aXXo
Written by Ernesto on March 09, 2008During November last year we reported that the popular DVD ripper aXXo had decided to take a break and stop releasing new material for a while. It now seems that he is back in business. A few hours ago aXXo uploaded his first movie in months. He chose “I Am Legend”.
Since November 11 2007, when the last official aXXo torrent was uploaded, it has been awfully quiet. Some people assumed that aXXo had got himself caught while others claimed he had an accident. After a while it became clear that he simply decided to take some time off.
An administrator on Darkside RG, the official home of aXXo explained at the time: “aXXo told us that he has decided to take a break, so you will not see new aXXo torrents anywhere for a while. Please show your support by keeping his torrents alive until he comes back, as always, he will post here first when he does.”
Now, after nearly four months of absence aXXo has returned, and uploaded his first .torrent on Darkside RG and other torrent sites. It’s the news that many BitTorrent users have been waiting for.
Marking his comeback with the movie “I Am Legend” could be seen as symbolic. Before aXXo decided to take a break, an estimated one million people downloaded his DVDrips every month. The search term aXXo was undoubtedly the most popular at many torrent sites. Although there are conflicting opinions in respect of the quality of his work, there can be no dispute that he was, and still is, very popular indeed.
While some see him in an almost religious light, others have been quick to take advantage of his popularity for nefarious purposes, or have used the aXXo brand to draw attention to their own releases, like KLAXXON did.
Even though some see him as a legend, aXXo certainly isn’t without his critics but whatever the position, his popularity is indisputable…..along with his modesty ;)
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People say it’s good to have him because his torrents are well seeded and stay around for a while.
But if axxo wasn’t around and people showed a bit more respect for the people who actually get us this stuff in the first place then there would be more seeds on the scene rips instead of all the sheep seeding axxo’s cheap re-encodes.
[quote comment="307604"]But if axxo wasn’t around and people showed a bit more respect for the people who actually get us this stuff in the first place then there would be more seeds on the scene rips instead of all the sheep seeding axxo’s cheap re-encodes.[/quote]
Yeah, but they don’t, so suck it up.
In the end of the day axxo’s torrents tend to stay alive longer and therefore get shared more about the torrent community. Isn’t that the whole idea of bit torrent and p2p? To share? For the people complaining about him, just don’t download his torrents, problem solved.
“all he does is rip off the hard work of the old/well respected sceners out there”
The sceners rip off Hollywood and all other film makers who make far less money from their work. A typical movie costs at least hundreds of thousands dollars up to hundreds of millions. Some of the so-called scene even tries to make money out of selling copies. Would you care to explain how you justify your shitty MPAA-like attitude? Or do you simply enjoy yourself whilst blathering bullshit? If aXXo actually drains the resources of the real dirty pirates - who are anything but altruists - I applaud him and wish him well.
[quote]For one he’s got PRE times of MONTHS. Did you know I AM LEGEND (the dvdrip) was released 3 weeks ago?[/quote]
He doesn’t have a pre time, moron. He’s not scene.
While I really am not into movies, I am a bit curios about the big negative attitude against aXXo.
If he was just renaming files I would understand the attitude, but he reencodes scene releases into 700MB files. That is good honest working, trying to fit as much quality as possible into a single CD.
A process of refinement, no different than what the scene releasers do when they convert a real physical DVD into a digital format.
If you prefer higher video quality at the expense of size, you should of course not download aXXo, but that is simply because in that case they aren’t targetted at you.
There is however obviously a lot of people who do want these smaller size rips. And XXo is providing a great service to those people by doing these reencodings.
If you want to complain, you should first find another releaser of 700MB rips that provides a better and more consistant user experience than aXXo does. And even after that, why not just promote that other person/group instead.
All the anti aXXo trolling reminds me a lot about dirty politics. Don’t come up with any solution or real concrete ideas, instead just attack and bad talk your opponent.
By the way, if scene releasers want their credits to remain after a reencode or even redistribution I recommend that they embed their credits directly into the movie. That is where it is most likely to be seen anyways.
And if someone where to reencode movies and specifically remove such credits, then I would understand the complaints. But there is a real difference between activly and passivly not giving credit.
axxo is a coward
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I treat scene DVDRips and aXXo DVDRips all the same, and I could care less if aXXo re-encodes scene releases or not.
“could care less” means you do care, you fucking retard.
The correct saying is “couldn’t care less” = meaning you don’t care.
Learn the fucking language.
Of course, there wouldn’t be a proper news about aXXo without bunch of morons complaining and moaning about how the scene is almost god-like and aXXo is just ripping them off.
Get a life! I do not care who the f*ck is relasing, where did he get it, why etc. I just care to download fine quality movies, with decent speed and without any problems.
So, scene people: STFU and go making pleasure, wanking with your ‘elite’ community and fellows. EOT
“While some see him in an almost religious light….”
Give me a friggin break…
stop bitchin abotu axxo and the scene etc the more dvd rips on the market the better agree?
Yay! more poor quality rips.
Every time someone mentions “aXXo,” the so-called “scene” fanbois erupt into a lemon party-like fascination with their own shriveled cocks.
My warmest “Welcome back” to aXXo and his torrents.
I don’t care that his videos are re-encodes.
I don’t care if he “rips off” the scene.
What I don’t understand is why he gets so much attention.
[quote]“could care less” means you do care, you fucking retard.
The correct saying is “couldn’t care less” = meaning you don’t care.
Learn the fucking language.[/quote]
Exactly, that’s one thing that I find very odd, when people say they could care less.
[quote]What I don’t understand is why he gets so much attention.[/quote]
People like hero worship.
he may(the fuck would i know) ‘rip’ off the scene but let me tell you why I think hes a gent.
I have no access to ’scene’ material.
this man makes it accessible.(for shmucks)
any of you ’scenester’ pricks that bitch, just think, were you born with basic dos commands?
born knowing IRC protocols?
you had to learn.
AT SOME STAGE, WE ARE ALL SHMUCKS.
lmao aXXo…. bunch of retards.
I wouldn’t normally get involved because arguing on the internet is like running in the special olympics, even if you win, you’re still retarded.
Axxo is a re-encoding son of a bitch. Yes it’s great that he uploads torrents of popular movies that are 700meg in size (yeah low bit rates, but perfectly watchable on smaller screens) but Why is there an article about him coming back. big fucking whoop whoop. Why isn’t there more info on the scene groups who actually get the copies in the first place well before retail release, surely those should be getting more recgonition than axxo who is simply a transcoder….
I wouldn’t normally get involved because arguing on the internet is like running in the special olympics, even if you win, you’re still retarded.
Axxo is a re-encoding son of a bitch. Yes it’s great that he uploads torrents of popular movies that are 700meg in size (yeah low bit rates, but perfectly watchable on smaller screens) but Why is there an article about him coming back. big fucking whoop whoop. Why isn’t there more info on the scene groups who actually get the copies in the first place well before retail release, surely those should be getting more recognition than axxo who is simply a transcoder….
I meant, transcoding gender bender.
That’s funnier.
[quote]Axxo is a re-encoding son of a bitch. Yes it’s great that he uploads torrents of popular movies that are 700meg in size (yeah low bit rates, but perfectly watchable on smaller screens) but Why is there an article about him coming back. big fucking whoop whoop. Why isn’t there more info on the scene groups who actually get the copies in the first place well before retail release, surely those should be getting more recognition than axxo who is simply a transcoder….[/quote]
Sceners say they don’t want attention. They don’t want to be on file sharing sites. In many nfos they complain about the evil P2P “lamers” who are coming to… Download their releases, which for some reason they don’t like.
The more famous you make someone/thing/ a group the more of a target they become.
WOOT WOOT WOOT HE’S BACK. Hail to the king.
:bow:
[quote comment="307631"]“could care less” means you do care, you fucking retard.
The correct saying is “couldn’t care less” = meaning you don’t care.
Learn the fucking language.[/quote]
Actually you may be surprised to find out that not every idiomatic expression in the English language should be taken literally. http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/g09.html
http://www.bartleby.com/64/C003/078.html
Poster 46 makes a good point. Making a ripper or hacker famous only leads to inflated egos or those people being targeted. The society of the internet has to remain numerous and faceless.
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