First HD-DVD Movie Leaked Onto BitTorrent
Written by Smaran on January 14, 2007The HD-DVD has been cracked, and high definition content is now being distributed freely over BitTorrent. We all knew this would happen sooner or later, looks it was “sooner”. The first HD-DVD to be uploaded to BitTorrent is Serenity, the Firefly movie.
It hasn’t even been a month since the HD-DVD ripper, BackupHDDVD was released and we’re already seeing high definition feature films pop up on torrent sites. Other than Serenity, it is rumoured that HD-DVDs of the movies Batman Begins, Chronicles of Riddick, 12 Monkeys and King Kong have been decrypted and consequently shown up on torrent sites. Yesterday, a handful of hackers figured out how to extract the unique volume key from HD-DVDs.
According to HDTV Blogger, the torrent is “a 19.6GB file in native EVO format that should play on PowerDVD and WinDVD with HD DVD playback.” Apparently, he got a “very, very nasty email” after posting about the first HD-DVD torrent. It seems the anonymous mailer was upset at the fact that he was bringing unnecessary attention to the P2P community. Looks like his plan just backfired.
The anonymous mailer also claims that HDTV Blogger is violating the BitTorrent site’s copyright by posting a screenshot of the site. “By posting that screencap you have violated the copyright of the tracker by posting an image and text that is own by them. You should remove the screencap before legal action is taken upon you.” - is this guy for real?
Images courtesy of HDTV Blogger.
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i know from a russsia underground site blu-ray can be backuped on computer and it has a video showing how. but they dont show the source code.
@afasdf
no, some people downloaded it and couldn’t get it to work at all…what do you think that implies?
Uhh - since when is $499.00 cheap for a phone/ Or $399.00, $299.99, $199.99 or even $99.99??? Have we really come to a day when a cheap-ass piece of plastic - no matter what it does - is considered a “low priced” at what most people pay 1/3 of for rent? I’ll call the price “reasonable” when it’s $50.00 or less for the NEW stuff, because even at that price it’s still making them money.
I’m not comparing the price of hardware to software with that comment - the fact is, we’re getting sorely raped, and holding our eyes wide open for the gouge much more so for the fictitious price of software, much more than hardware. But lets not get crazy and say that because of that, that the price of hardware is “cheap”.
They should put the algorithm on a T-shirt like DeCSS. I’d buy one.
[quote comment="38564"]Brick and mortar stores, like Mervins, include the cost of “lost revenue” from people not paying for things by passing it onto the legitimate buyers. In the digital world, you have hardware, and software. [/quote]
a thief is a thief is a thief. Fact is, d/l’ers are just too f’in cheap…including you. But you’re all just a bunch of pansies cuz none of you have the ballz to steal in real life. When you do it from the comfort of your couch, you try and come up with a myriad of quasi-socio-political bullshit to justify it as NOT stealing but rather a rebellion against crass commercialism….all the while using your $2500 MacBook Pro with 2gb ram and a 500gb hdd!
and how the heck is an iPhone gonna help anyone’s life besides putting more $$ in Jobs’ wallet?
I can’t believe you posted a screenshot of the site! You are hurting the tracker and drawing unwanted attention. I hope the tracker comes out of whatever may happen unscathed…
Well, All this attention has turned out for the worst for the users of this site. All of the HD-DVD’s are in the process of being removed, even though a few have been completed. The site does not like all of this attention generated by sites like Digg.
Seriously,
The worst thing for this site right now would be to publicize it. If we want any of this material to show up to any of us, we can’t let them be shut down.
anon:
“I can’t believe you posted a screenshot of the site! You are hurting the tracker and drawing unwanted attention. I hope the tracker comes out of whatever may happen unscathed…”
Heh. Why, so you can continue pirating? Illegal and unethical…
Anonymous, you don’t think interested parties know already? This is insane. It’s not like we’re operating undercover, and it’s not like the MPAA’s copyright enforcers are twelve years old. There is NO WAY to keep this information secret, so it might as well be divulged so the community can benefit.
Torrent-Drama! Hooray.
As some more or less pointed out, I think this is bad; the only thing this will achive is that fuckin BR will have case too point out that theire drm system is better, and BR will win the battle. And sony will take more of our money.
Seriously a really bad time to do this, it would be better if the torrent publisher had waited in a strategic point of view.
good bye HD-DVD :~(
I’m just glad I will be able to rip HD-DVDs I buy and put them on my hard drive. I will definitely buy a HD-DVD drive over a blu Ray one now. Screw downloading it… that’s twice my monthly allowance!
That movie sucks anyway…
What we need now is : 1) bigger hard-disk 2) bigger net bandwith
Oh, also, Vi$ta will surely prevent you from viewing this as it should… or not ? ;)
There are a few Japanese torrent sites I visit that have had Blu-ray rips for quite some time.
To everyone who thinks that the effect from this will be a shift in studio support from HD-DVD to BR, you have to remember that AACS, the copy protection used on HD-DVD, is also used on BR. So any break in the encryption or exploit to retrieve the volume keys is also applicable to BR.
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