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 have to disagree with “Da5id” about the first part of your post (The better & clearer the picture) the more it does the trick lol I love my porn looking real. And as for “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 Gestapo of the Modern world…” Three cheers you said it, I agree Hitler is gone why bring his methods back & not just them The whole government is in on these methods (with any thing against Fair Use Rights) We should be free this is America. Isn’t it bad enough they poison are food & products we use with cancer causing stuff among other things in a conspiracy set up by our government to control population over flow by killing us off with poisons in small amount to cause us to die slow painful deaths now they are trying to take away our freedoms as well.
The titles are old. I already got the ones I wanted at screening time or before. I don’t need to see them again anyway, but if I wanted to watch it again in higher quality I wouldn’t bother downloading a huge file. I’d just hire & copy. It’d save a lot of time & B/W I could be using to get a stack of music or smaller movies.
blue ray is the best it is just a much better spec than hd dvd cos it has much more capasity but tht is kinda bad 4 us people who like to downlaod movies because the files will be massive plus 2 copy them you need a blue ray burner but at the end of the day unless ur a poor hobo u should buy ur dvds
so this is just better quality movie downloads ?
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