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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Perhaps if aXXo ripped rarities or something distinctly different then they might be of interest.
Frankly you get better rips from the many hard working home cappers/rippers around the globe. They should get the thumbs up for their time and not aXXo et al.
Fuck the scene, and fuck the whinging pussies that follow the scene. Given half a fucking chance, the scene would stop you from getting any of their shitty releases you dumbasses. Just a bunch of haters cause they aint anywhere near as popular.
to all the idiots screaming “Sceners Rules! Axxo Sucks!” … do you forget that most sceners HATE public & Priate p2p networks and more than often completely against helping out the torrenters by setting a No Archived Media Standard etc…
Infact, alls i see here (in the comments) is a shaking of dicks ‘cos its cool to hate , aiie?
Who cares about aXXo? He is, just like stated previously many times, merely some kid who steals scene releases and re-encodes them to lower quality. Suckass. I don’t see at all why people dig him so much.
[quote comment="307799"]Who cares about aXXo? He is, just like stated previously many times, merely some kid who steals scene releases and re-encodes them to lower quality. Suckass. I don’t see at all why people dig him so much.[/quote]
Because he doesn’t carry an elitist arragont attitude and actually helps torrent networks by fucking sharing with the world.
I see a lot of people saying that aXXo steals scene releases, that he simply re-encodes scene releases, etc. Where is the proof?
Ok, so his releases are somewhat lower quality, how do you know that he didn’t create his own rip from a DVD? Do scene groups add an invisible watermark to their releases so that they can tell when someone “steals” them? If the scene and aXXo both rip from the same source, they’re bound to end up with similar files (same length, etc).
Where’s the evidence that he isn’t creating his own DVD rips?
fuck ernesto and his bullshit reporting. Who cares what aXXo does. Do you even know any proper releasers? Or do you just like to sound L33T by reporting on aXXo and him only.
He must have been busy collecting other peoples uploads before he could come back and rebrand them as his own.
[quote comment="307787"]
I don’t like axxo. And I do release stuff. And I actually rip what I put out. I don’t steal it from the scene. The scene sucks anyways.[/quote]
Thanks for your good work releasing stuff, whatever it is. Anyone who does is improving the community.
If you don’t like it you don’t have to download it. That is the great thing about the internet. Several sources with varying size and quality. Some prefer the smaller size over quality, while other wants the highest quality and don’t care about size. And some most of all likes consistency over everything else.
Btw, since several people are bringing it up. Copying still isn’t stealing. Also, claiming that aXXo isn’t doing anything is wrong. He reencodes to a smaller size, probably checks the quality of the encode and releases it under his brand name that has gained people’s trust for its consistency.
If sceners want to get credits they should really embed them into the movie itself. Relying on nfo files, that almost no ordinary user every looks at and file names that change all the time isn’t a good strategy. And if the scene rules don’t allow embedding, bad for them.
If someone activly goes in and erases an added credit, then I would understand the complaints, but that seems to be more what real businesses do when they commit copyright infringement.
axxo is good sort of. granted his rips are 1 CD but at least he releases many movies that ‘the scene’ can’t seem to get. ‘the scene’ does NOT release EVERYTHING so its good that another is there to pick up the rest.
would like to see more nearHD rips though :)
What aXXo really provides is choice for those with slower connections or those with data limits.
The reality is, is that bittorrent and similar provide what the film companies and music companies do not.
a) Quality choice
b) Convenience
c) Low cost
d) Quick releases
e) Easy to use, simple software that doesn’t hog your computer
f) All you can eat
g) What you want, when you want it
h) Not fucked with DRM
Give me a legal solution and that would ensure movies/series for years to come.
I used DVD rental monthly services for years, then I found out it was irrelevant for film makers. So now I just buy the occasional film.
In the mean time, I can see firms shooting themselves in the foot.
all you people on AXXO’s dick are retarded. He rips movies, OMG! Any one of you could do what axxo does, all you need is a copy of the xvid codec and virtualdubmod.
axxo sucks and he has a huge ego.
boohoo.. axxo sucks the scene sucks gosh everything just isn’t worth the time it take to download anymore. lets all cry about it together.
3 weeks after the movie got pred,you call that fast LOL
aXXo is a douchebag with a oversized eog thats stealing the scene work and taking credit for it
only newbies and those who cant get ther 4ss on private trackers praise this con artist
they should know better and hopefully one day will ‘move up the ladder’ and then they will see axxo for what is really is,a re-encoding thief
and for god sake,stop saying he rip movies,he aint aint ripping sh1t,hes a re-encoder…again that show the lack of knowledge of sum peoples…
ROFL @ AXXO’S fanboys
@ comments n.100
have you ever meet the guy..i did and trust me he is elitist and arragont and he dosnt give a sh1t about all you fanboys
why does a torrent attention whore get this much respect when the scene is doing the hard work?
- because most torrent users are no-clue retards that don’t know and don’t care whats going on.
sad - certainly. important - hardly.
Axxo is a cunt, plain and simple, he steals from the scene and re-encodes until the shit sucks, then all of you tools download it and suck his cock.
yayyy i am legend! finally
[quote comment="307831"]ROFL @ AXXO’S fanboys
@ comments n.100
have you ever meet the guy..i did and trust me he is elitist and arragont and he dosnt give a sh1t about all you fanboys[/quote]
Im no fanboy, your mother is a fanboy.
i dont fucking care whether the movie came from the scene or blockbusters what i make a judgement by is what the persons/groups contribution is to keeping the p2p networks active with genuine releases… So suck ma baws redcock
axxo is the guy who is always populr and be popular!!!!
coz this humanity and this everything..for poor and needy……….
Every time someone mentions aXXo, a million trolls appear.
Go away bad trolls!
[quote comment="307588"]Hail AXXO!!!
Our Ripper, who art on mininova,
aXXo be thy name.
Thy torrents come.
Seeding will be done,
Here as it was on suprnova.
Give us this day our latest rips.
And forgive us our leeching,
As we forgive those that leech from us.
And lead us not on to private trackers;
But deliver us from the MPAA:
For thine is the ripping, the seeding, and the glory,
For ever and ever.
Amen…[/quote]
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This stupid axxo flame war erupted last time, when he mentioned he’d take a break, then several times in the interim, when rumors of his return came to rise.
Everything that needed to be said, everything that COULD be said, was said then, over and over and over and over ad nauseum. For God’s sake let it be;
Axxo-lovers: hooray, he’s back!
Axxo-haters: who cares!
The end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STOP FRICKIN FLAMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you don’t like Axxo, then ignore him! SHUT UP ABOUT HIM, and GO. SOMEWHERE. ELSE!
You are wasting everyone’s time INCLUDING your own when you say the same thing, over and over and over.
“Axxo re-encodes”
“Axxo re-encodes”
“Axxo re-encodes”
“Axxo re-encodes”
Everybody knows, nobody cares. It doesn’t influence the variety available to axxo-haters; it helps the variety for axxo-lovers. Just let it be, for God’s sake!!!
You can find all of aXXo releases at http://www.EasyaXXo.com
Simply put, aXXo steals scene releases and sticks his name on them. simple as that. How would you like it if you wrote a book and then somebody else stole it, put their name on it and stuck it on another site! BT has always compromised the security of the scene, and now we have some cocky american teenager stealing our releases! fucking wannabe sceners, make your own rips.
CELLKiLL FTW!
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