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 think everyone is missing the BIG picture here… Regardless of the fact that piracy is illegal, does it give the MPAA or RIAA the right to partake in illegal activity to determine the perps? NO, it doesn’t! Let’s say you shoplift from Walmart and steal a Movie {or anything for that matter…} and get away uncaught, does this give Walmart the right to hire strongarm thugs to scour every house of every patron of Walmart to search for and determine whether they stole a product from their clients store… Of course not! But this is exactly what the MPAA and RIAA are doing, sinking what could be profits for its benefactors {the actors and artists} into an unethical venture to scour the internet and invade EVERYONE who uses bittorrent’s privacy. The fact that noone has raised this issue is beyond me… They {MPAA and RIAA} are simply conducting their own illegal activity to prosecute illegal activity by others… this is simply, neither right nor moral! They have become the Gastapo of the Modern world…
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Hey guys,
Yes its all true and both hd-dvd and blueray dvds are availible for download at most torrentsites.
search using: 1080 or 1080P or 1080I on torrent sites.
I already have serveral hd movies and i love them.
SO happy downloading ppl.
BUT SEEEEEEEDDD PPL!!
many torrents are about to die
HD-DVD -
-Better picture.
-Reversable disc (standard dvd on other side).
-Cheaper.
-Porn support.
-less succeptable to surface scratches.
BLUERAY -
-Larger storage(wow)
Do the math.
And for the dumbass that made the disney comment ….. There will be more ADULTS that buy porn, owning hi-def players than KIDS that watch disney, owning hi-def players.
P.S. $ony is the devil
[quote comment="38509"]Thats jokes…. So HD-DVD is a flowing…. What about Blue-Ray?[/quote]
I think it will be a repeat of VCR V.S. Beta Max. HD-DVD is VCR and Blu-Ray is Beta Max. Beta was the better technology. VCR was cheaper and almost as good. Beta lasted a few years then they stoped producing the tapes.
haha, you guys are morons. blu ray has basically already won. the only movie company not supporting it is universal. blu ray has basically all the backing. do yourself a favor before you make yourself sound so dumb. google “blu ray support” and see what comes up, then type “HD DVD support”. the porn industries jumped ship from HD DVD and moved to blu ray. haha and the other idiot that doesnt know the specs… yes blu ray is A LOT larger. files dont need to be compressed which in return can load faster… the laser can also read at almost double the speed of HD DVD…picture quality is about the same (but blu ray is better) but if you have a good stereo system, the sound quality is far superior. learn your shiit before you try and put things down. some of you guys look pathetic trying to pretend like you know shiit.
Just because bluray has all the support doesnt make it win. Most consumers wont spend 1k on aplayer. And 2. Costco and walmart support hddvd…..
EAT SHIST
not all of us can buy your crapy HDDVD /other bullshit!
P2P networks kick ass!
Already downloaded a few BluRay and HD movies, dropped them all on the PS3.
Works great.
Finally getting some good use out of that HDMI out on that game console in the movie department now too. Sweet deals.
Download size isnt much bigger then a normal dvd download for alot of the BluRay movies, about 4gigs ranging up to 9, after all the extras are cut out. And if you want the extras, you can always find that too.
Happy internet raping.
seriously i cant believe my eyes, 2 factions, well 3, 1 anti piracy, 1 anti BR and 1 anti HD DVD… At the end of the day, dont u think we all WANT WHATS BEST?? who cares how we get it and when we get it, it will come 2 us eventually, and the more we have the cheaper it gets..
I dont give a rats ass about piracy, the companies make enuff money to buy 3rd world countries, and yet all i see is every1 bishing on here… if u dont like then who cares about ur opinion, i mean theres enuff good in the world with out the bad so keep the positives instead of the negetives, man i own a laser disk player with 70 movies plus, and ive had to transfer them over to dvd, not cheap cosidering laser disks in australia were $100 aus back then… I own like 5 copies of 1 movie cause of how companies dont release the ultimate edition, so if i hear any1 sayin how piracy sux, or hd is betta than br or blah blah, take ur head out of ur ass cause seriously, forums like this which only perpetuate flames, for no other reason than lame assed wanna be tards with little or no knowledge of the industry really need 2 get a life….
some of the comments on here r good, most r bs, so thats no a forum as far as im concerned.. want info, well get good info.. enuff said…
Movie companies suck….
where i live, in argentina a blank bru-ray disc is 99 ARS that are like 30 or 34 dollars, so it is still very expensive to burn a pirate bluray… i think that everyone was ok with dvds and everyone was happy, but sony’s intentions are evil :D…. personally i will continue downloading movies and burning them into dvds which i pay 0.50 dollars
USD 34 vs. USD 0.50
I think its clear….
there has been blue ray movies to download on torrents for ages. and honestly what ever format they make will be hacked. thats life. all this “protection encodeing” is worthless. anything can be hacked give it a month or 2..
I agree with some of what has been said.. I just don’t understand why you people rant of about the HDDVD vs BR thing.. either way, one is going to fall away, does it really matter? someone is going to be right, and someone is going to be wrong, so what?
Just wait for everything to clear up and then get what you need.. chances are that you guys are going to go our and buy the drive/writer and whatever hardware you can get your hands on to support your belief, and then half of you are going to realise you wated a lot of money.. don’t be brainwashed.. the media hype has a purpose, think about it ~ just wait it out, for a little longer, I’m sure watching a movie in a slighlty lesser quality for a while longer wouldnt hurt..
Many people go on about how Sony is evil.. haha! it makes me laugh, I have a friend that worked with Sony on their publicity recently.. he said that Sony si represented like any high profile celeb, just get people to talka bout it, and no matter what they say, good or bad, people will notice and buy, cos that’s how people are, once you start talking about it, curiosity sets in, even if you have heard bad things, you still want to understand.
With all said.. money is an issue, most people can’t afford to pay for DVDs, but most of us already have good computers and internet connections for work.. is it that hard to put together?
it’s convinient, it’s cheap and it’s hassle free ~ no worry of stolen money from bank accounts, no worry of shitty DVD quality, and freedom download whatever you please where ever you please..
if someone can come up with something better than that for the film industry.. then im sure everyone will take a second look.. till then ~
downloading will never stop!
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look guys on BR Vs HDDvD
Can you play your old dvd’s on Blue Ray? NO
Can you play your old DVD’s on HDDvD? Yes
Go figure which one will win!
foodstuff:legacies:functionally periods:gears conversing:drowning - Tons of interesdting stuff!!!
Saxony?groaner diatribe.abhor?profile?thought?indeterminacies appraises.
-Can you play your old dvd’s on Blue Ray? NO-
PS3 plays old dvd’s and upconverts.
Anyway, long thread, wow… some angst, some sympahty… all over the charts.
Ok, all the bs about porn… haha, how pathetic, people who watch porn are after Hi-Def? I thought it was about rubbin one out… jesus most guys only need a minute or two, semi-decent rez does the trick.
Anyway, about Disney only doing one, whatever, it’s Disney flix, and Blu-ray is better technology.
As for Paramount/Universal, they’ve always been behind Disney in every aspect. Their children’s movies suck, their themeparks are lame (minus a few rollercoasters). Their stock doesn’t even do as well. Keep in mind Disney isn’t even one company, it’s 7 (I can’t remember, the mall stores split a few years ago).
Downloads are lame unless they’re uncompressed… and for the person who said downloads will never stop? I wish that were true but if the USA keeps moving toward socialism and facist control… well, in Myanmar (sp) they shut down output of the net to control the masses… it’s not hard for them to one day just tell the companies to turn it all off…
For the apple iPhone (bad example, but cell phones in general) they do serve a purpose for those who need them, ie. not the 16 yr old blonde brat driving down the highway, but perhaps the businessman/woman, contractor etc etc etc etc.
My expectation, at least for the next so many years before this whole conversation is mute because BOTH formats are out-done by the next format of 10000p or whatever (ala OLED, laser tv’s on the way - who knows what they’ll be capable of… monitors already are beyond 1080p) is that both of these formats will stay in place…
The video game industries alone won’t allow the PS3 to become obsolete, nor will Microsofts billions of dollars allow the Xbox to go away… so both systems stay. Some companies will never get off their stupid asses and allow the consumer to be right… ie. I have a blu-ray player and want to watch Transformers… it’s just lame… but in the long run none of this will matter.
Thanks for the original poster, in that this thread is lasting almost 3/4 of a year and still interests people.
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