aXXo’s Pirated Movies Used to Promote the iMac
Written by Ernesto on January 23, 2008The DVD ripper aXXo is without a doubt one of the most popular DVD-rippers. Even though he hasn’t been active since November 2007, his rips are still widely used, even by commercial outlets such as the John Lewis store. They must have thought, “Why use a real DVD if we can use a pirated movie for free?”
The aXXo rip was shown on an iMac displayed on an Apple stand at a John Lewis store. A member of the Hexus forums discovered this remarkable promotional material, and writes:
“So I was in my local John Lewis store a week or so back, and I was checking out their new little Apple mac area, which had lots of Macs on display, with some desks setup and other accessories. They also had some wall mounted iMacs. Imagine my surprise when getting closer to one of them to see ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest’ - ripped by Axxo playing.”
Using a ripped DVD is bit odd because this is certainly not the best promotional material. Regular DVDs or free HD-content looks much better on an iMac monitor.
One thing is clear though, aXXo’s presence has now moved beyond the Internet, and for him it must be flattering to see that commercial outlets appreciate his work. Perhaps this might motivate him to return?
The last official aXXo torrent was uploaded November 11, after that it has been awfully quiet. There were rumors that he got caught, others said he had an accident. However, the official statement is that he decided to take a break.
John Lewis was not available for comment, the MPAA probably wont appreciate it that much, but they have our support.
Update: John Lewis replied to Hexus with an official statement: “Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. We have fully investigated the incident and the shop has removed and destroyed the clip. We have also taken the necessary steps to ensure that the replication and publication of pirate material in any form does not take place in our shops. This incident is not reflective of our policy and we take very seriously the copyright laws and would not intentionally break any of these rules or regulations.”
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Fuck macs and Apple in General…… On the other hand that is actually pretty cool, just to bad it’s on a mac.
Who can tell a good encode and a dvd apart from eachother.
Haha this is funny to hear :D
Allthou i do wish his name wasnt so heavily abused on the internet especialy by the anti-p2p companies who flood bittorrent websites with fake files and using aXXo in the title.
The last few days i have witnessed a new wave of fake axxo files with domplayer in it.
Screenshot: http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/6267/avoidsx9.png
That’s awesome!
[quote comment="270292"]Haha this is funny to hear :D
Allthou i do wish his name wasnt so heavily abused on the internet especialy by the anti-p2p companies who flood bittorrent websites with fake files and using aXXo in the title.
The last few days i have witnessed a new wave of fake axxo files with domplayer in it.
Screenshot: http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/6267/avoidsx9.png/quote
Shit, dood, it didn’t just have th DOM player in it, it was only DOM player in those. Ghey.
LOL
So.. They also just people like us.
I think the reason they did they was probly because a employee lost the DVD or they have rights to it somehow (They bought it) and didn’t have the physical media, they probly had an employee who was like, I can put it on there anyway, or maybe they didn’t want people to be able to take the CD out of the mac.
Thats what ive done at my work anyway, we technically own a license, sometimes we loose the physical media, so I just download it. Another great reason to use bit torrent.
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Thats what ive done at my work anyway, we technically own a license, sometimes we loose the physical media, so I just download it. Another great reason to use bit torrent.[/quote]
In the UK there are issues with showing rated material such as Movies at certain times of the day apparently.
So even if UK laws allows for the use of a “backup” something I’m not sure of the public display of it might be a different matter.
Well keep in mind that we know its not technically legal what were doin, but of course i couldn’t possibly care less because that law is wrong. Hopefully if the shit hit the fan, they could see we have a proper license and media, but we need instant solutions, and bittorrent is always there.
isn’t that funny.. bittorrent.. the instant solution.. wow.. really think about that a second. These multi-million dollar companies cant even beat something like bittorrent.. lol pathetic, please die.
Anyway back to the subject.
LMFAO at MPAA look NO one is scared of you anymore LOL
even John Lewis is laughing at your little treats hehehe
see ya in court (checkout)
A story of such global significance will no doubt be on “Midlands Today” this evening.
In other news some kid set all the egg timers to go off together after 5 minutes.
Why oh why, dearest TF?
It should be mentioned that Axxo has in the past, on a few occasions, takes scene released DVDRIPS and encoded them down and tagged them as Axxo. Some suggest every single dvdrip he did was like this, but I beg to differ, I think it was actually a small percentage in my eyes if any.
But bare in mind, he’s talking a pristine 2 cd release and converting it to 700megs, and the end results shows this compression pretty badly.
I can’t fathom why people love the guy so much? Sure I’ve got some of his rips on my hd right now, but only releases that were 1 cd releases from the scene to begin with, as I don’t like pixellated puke.
In any event I hope Axxo is aware of this, it’s happening everywhere. I’ve seen pirated movies playing on screens a futureshop (not axxo but clearly a scene release).
I wonder if he’s thought of sueing them muhahahah
I know what you’re saying guys but that last sentence sucks. Who exactly has your support? :p
thoouth, I was thinking the same thing. Who has TF’s support? O_o
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Thats what ive done at my work anyway, we technically own a license, sometimes we loose the physical media, so I just download it. Another great reason to use bit torrent.[/quote]
In the UK there are issues with showing rated material such as Movies at certain times of the day apparently.
So even if UK laws allows for the use of a “backup” something I’m not sure of the public display of it might be a different matter.[/quote]
As far as I know you are allowed to display up to PG rated films etc - don’t quote me on that though. Dead mans chest is a 12 rating I believe.
i somehow feel this is an intended joke. any one else sees the irony in picking a pirated ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’?
pointless blog post
ROFL!
Dang!! Axxo should sue them for publishing his work :0)
They probably just didn’t want to burn out the optical drive or add extra heat. If they have rights to show it at all, don’t see how this is a problem, other than Axxo is a hack, it’s quite easy to tell the difference between Ax encodes and DVD quality or better.
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The only reason i like aXXo releases was because i knew they weren’t going to be fakes (if you searched by his username) and the quality would be watchable….
his work was appreciated…. now time to find another releaser i like
[quote comment="270307"]So even if UK laws allows for the use of a “backup” something I’m not sure of the public display of it might be a different matter.[/quote]
Not sure how it is in the UK, but in Norway they write on the DVD-cover that the owner (of the DVD) is only allowed to show privately and not public.
How is this news? I was on a Bluray convo and they were playing mkv 720p rips from a MIVX player. Which is double times ironic since the movie in question was Transformers, a HDDVD exclusive.
Domplayer is fake!!! Although it is only $2 to buy if you buy it and open up a movie with it a new video will appear saying that you need to buy a different player which is probably fake as well.
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