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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@ supportfirefly
Make sure you can buy / download it online for a reasonable price and I will download it online… if not, I will use Usenet or Torrents.
I think buying is always good. I prefer to have a legal, good quality copy.
I also think $1 per movie is fair.
Movie Collectors would likely pay thousands more dollars collecting all the stuff they ever wanted. Anyway, thats one view, as naive as may be.
I don’t care. period.
Of course you can download Blueray discs you newbs, you just cant play them cause as yet we cant crack the encryption meaning you couldnt play whatever you download you just have a 50gb disc thats useless until someone figures out the ecryption, but nothing is uncrackable, just a matter of time.
hd-dvd cracked or not will win the format war, mainly because when hd-dvd fucks you its not as painful as blue ray. and comsumers will always take the less painful kind of rape regardless of the product specs.
PC vs Mac anyone?
[quote comment="38523"]If HD-DVD`appears vulnerable, that means Blu-Ray will win. That means Sony wins. Don’t let Sony win :([/quote]
yeah go sony!!!!!
Here’s a novel idea you basement dragon-slaying nerds:
DO NOT STEAL
I know your mother and father were too busy smoking crack to teach you right from wrong, while you were playing your dumb-ass mindless video games you communist wannabe.
[quote comment="41684"]Here’s a novel idea you basement dragon-slaying nerds
Amazingly mature.
“If you are a fan of firefly you wouldn’t pirate it. The show needs all the support it can get and by stealing it, well you are just hurting the cause.”
Nonsense. Whedon and the actors, two of whom ouuldn’t/wouldn’t reappear anyway, hav all made their money. Universal owns the rights, won’t sell them, and won’t make another movie because Serenity did so poorly, AND isn’t about to get into making a SciFi series for TV that would let Whedon do his thing with the freedom he’d need to do it right.
End of story. So as much of a sublime experience those 13 episodes were, pirating the film isn’t going to hurt shit.
who care if HD-DVD is cracked,
who cares if blue ray is cracked.
they will 100% be cracked, i dont wanna download anything but 1.4 gig xvids, who has that much hard drive space for 10-15gig per film or more…
also if u are not able to watch a show on TV, then its perfectly morally right to download it..
for the record, the studios have absolutely no idea how many people watch their dam shows you morons, they use estimates, they get estimates because some people have boxes which monitor their tv activity, like few thousand of them , and then they just multiply the percentage
so infact there could be 50 times mor people watching then they think, although thats pretty high
[quote comment="38655"]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![/quote]
I prefer to wait for a HD-DVD / Blu-Ray combo drive. I don’t remember which company is it, but they already released one of these combo drives for PC (read HD-DVD / Blu-Ray and burn CDs and DVDs).
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