Klaxxon Starts Where aXXo Left Off
Written by Ernesto on December 20, 2007A few weeks ago we reported that the popular DVD ripper aXXo decided to take a break and stopped releasing new material for the time being. Around the same time a new face entered the non-scene scene and whenever people searched for aXXo torrents, KLAXXON rips started to appear.
The last official aXXo torrent was uploaded over a month ago, after that is has been awfully quiet. When aXXo was still active, an estimated one million people downloaded his DVDrips every month. This did not go unnoticed to malware peddlers and anti-piracy organizations who used the aXXo tag to spread their evil. However, it now seems that a new ripper called KLAXXON, is also benefiting from aXXo’s popularity.
It’s safe to say that KLAXXON’s name is inspired by aXXo, thereby using the popularity of aXXo to promote his/her DVDrips in the search results of BitTorrent sites. It’s an effective way to get attention because even after a month of absence, aXXo is still among the most searched keywords on most BitTorrent sites.
It turns out that KLAXXON’s timing was spot on. Intentionally or not, the rips (mostly older titles) started to appear on torrent sites a few days before aXXo posted his last torrent. The quality of the rips is not bad according to most of the comments. The only thing thats seems odd are the file sizes, they vary quite a bit, from 500MB to well over 1GB.
I doubt whether it’s wise, but KLAXXON even has a weblog with more details about the releases and a requests page where we read:
Please add your requests to the comments section below and klaxxon will try to provide the most popular requests. Please note this will depend on time constraints but klaxxon will endevour to satisfy as many of our loyal fans as possible. Thank you once again for your loyal support.
It looks like KLAXXON enjoys pleasing their “loyal fans” on their way to BitTorrent stardom. A hobby that turns out to be quite risky to some, I’m sure that the anti-pirates already placed their spotlights on this newcomer.
To be continued?
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[quote comment="243701"]The only thing this guy may get busted
by the mpa for is butchering quality movies. xD[/quote]
lol. the truth has been spoken.
The guys uses one-click software.
I actually feel bad for him and I think TorrentFreak delivered this article to get him busted because they too know he sucks.
Thanks TF.
TorrentFreak Wrote:
“”The quality of the rips is not bad according to most of the comments.”"
No shit. He creates alias accounts and leaves comments under his own torrents.
Come-on, don’t be so gullible.
[quote comment="243734"]My Philips DivX DVD player has a limit on what resolution it will play back… If I put a HD or a HiRes rip or cap of something in it, it won’t play. Don’t hate on CDs. No one said you have to put it on a CD.[/quote]
Go buy a new DivX player.
And yes, we should be hating on CDs.. they’re taxed in Canada to fund CRIA. Fuck the MAFiAA.
P.S. You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.
[quote comment="243898"]size rules should stay in place. They are in place for those of us smart enough to have a standalone xvid player. I have a $6000 stereo why the fuck would I want to watch a movie on my computer?
I think they should institute a AC3 only rule for all scene releases - 5.1 always if its available. No 2 channel bs to save size. I dont mind burning 2 discs to watch the movie.[/quote]
A 6 grand stereo and you’re moaning about the quality of pirated releases? They must have seen you coming.
Dunno.. if you’re a real audio buff, and you go for Analogue equipment, you could blow $6,000 easy.
But then, listening to digital audio would make buying valve equipment pointless.
hmm..
I find it fucking retarded someone actually goes and uses a name that has “axxo” in it i mean wow.
As annoying as it was having to bypass his torrents i ended up downloadin a video of his and yeah, butchering good quality movies AT ITS BEST.
Dont give this guy fame just filter his uploads pls =(
a $6,000 stereo to play audio that rolls off at 16khz. brilliant?
i’ve never understood at all why ANYONE downloaded these “axxo” rips.
they all looked like absolute pixelated shit to me. never once saw a good encode in the 10+ movies i tried
i guess its all some random circumstances, wich caused his rips to become popular and create a snowball effect. the only thing they had going for them was there smaller size.
legit scene rips look 10x better than any axxo rip, even those the same size are noticeably better.
AMATEURISH TORRENT USER WORK
Actually with most of these uploaders I’m sure they’re all made with either AutoGK or Handbrake. There is no professionalism in them. However they work damn well on a standalone DivX player, and given that I don’t have HDTV, their picture is perfectly fine for my needs and there are more seeders when they build a fanbase.
However, this KLAXXON guy is obviously just around to capitalize on the success of aXXo, given that his name includes “axxo.”
i told you all he would be replaced. Now Klaxxon can be a pos too just like axxo was.
When klaxxon leaves some other homo will be there to replace those shit ball rls too.
aXXo hasn’t even logged onto Darkside since 14th November.
He only said that he was taking a month off.
He must’ve got conscripted or something :)
I would have to agree that any of you kids who complain about size limits are pretty much retarded by any measure…
“Oh Noes! It wont fit on a CD!” Get with the god d@mn times and get a f***ing upgrade already. You morons are worse then the people who refuse to upgrade from a 10 yr old computer and then bi**h about how slow it is!
Be glad there is ANYONE willing to risk the jail time to rip movies for your lazy asses! Quality or not, it’s still Better then nothing!
[quote comment="244527"]I would have to agree that any of you kids who complain about size limits are pretty much retarded by any measure…
“Oh Noes! It wont fit on a CD!”
[/quote]
LMAO. Obviously NO CLUE as to what a standalone DivX player is…
ahahaha. IDIOT.
Maybe I’m too old-fashioned but I never liked “indie” rippers like aXXo, and I think it has to do with the perceived image of such benevolent individuals. The truth is anyone can put any name on a file. If I were suddenly compelled to rip movies and label them as aXXo, I’d probably fool the average leech with ease.
Another thing is I never understood the obsession with AC3 audio, often taking up nearly 1/2 the file size at the expense of video quality. If a movie’s sound track is worth the 5.1 treatment, then I’d rather have a larger file with better quality overall. Maybe that’s just me.
The most important thing by far, is that we old-schoolers aren’t fond of piracy being so mainstream. Ask any supposed “warez d00d” about this, and if he/she thinks it’s cool to popularize the scene, I think you should beat them over the head with a DVD burner. That’s why the respectable groups don’t release torrents nor hang out on P2P nets. The scene was supposed to be tightly controlled from the very beginning, which was how we kept things safe. People get busted because they attract too much attention. If they were only trading with their friends like the good old days, piracy might still be a hobby rather than a plague.
[quote comment="244539"]
The most important thing by far, is that we old-schoolers aren’t fond of piracy being so mainstream. Ask any supposed “warez d00d” about this, and if he/she thinks it’s cool to popularize the scene, I think you should beat them over the head with a DVD burner.[/quote]
What? You speak of old-school but have no clue what your speak about.
‘The Scene’ had nothing to do with p2p. P2P is a ‘community’, which has NOTHING to do with ‘The Scene’.
You are a simple p2p lamer. Get over yourself and try to understand the difference. The P2P community has never been underground nor were its intentions to be so. You are highly confused my friend.
[quote comment="244552"][quote comment="244539"]
The most important thing by far, is that we old-schoolers aren’t fond of piracy being so mainstream. Ask any supposed “warez d00d” about this, and if he/she thinks it’s cool to popularize the scene, I think you should beat them over the head with a DVD burner.[/quote]
What? You speak of old-school but have no clue what your speak about.
‘The Scene’ had nothing to do with p2p. P2P is a ‘community’, which has NOTHING to do with ‘The Scene’.
You are a simple p2p lamer. Get over yourself and try to understand the difference. The P2P community has never been underground nor were its intentions to be so. You are highly confused my friend.[/quote]
Dude you totally missed his point. Re-read you jerkoff.
Nope, sorry, still see the same thing.
I see an individual whom dreams and fantasizes that he is part of ‘The Scene’.
lol, you’re not part of ‘The Scene’, so get a clue. You are speaking to protect something which you have ZERO to do with.
Amusing, thanks.
[quote comment="244539"] The scene was supposed to be tightly controlled from the very beginning, which was how we kept things safe. [/quote]
‘WE’. Now that is funny.
+1
Nobody knows what they’re talking! First, you’re arguing about free illegal shit! If you’re that picky, go to your local Blockbusters and rent, meaning pay for DVD quality! If you’re so stupid to pay for mega bucks home stereo & video equipment but are watching pirated movies than you’re too stupid to live!
The only decent free quality of pirated movies come in a full 2 CD disc XVID format of a DVDrip. The release group Diamond does this well, when you go down to a 1 CD format, you loose both video & audio quality. If you have a Dixv player, which is all you need–just download a 2 CD DVDrip of a movie.
If you still have a lousy plain DVD player than convert the XVID to DVD format, there’s lots of software packages for this purpose. But don’t bother to waste time to merge CD 1 & CD 2, you’ll usually end up with audio sync problems. Just make each CD a separate DVD. Or if you have the time and don’t care how long it takes to download, you can download a complete DVD-R format and just burn it directly onto a DVD RW (don’t waste money on non-rewritable DVD’s–just watch the movie, erase it and burn a new movie)!
Other than that, you’re looking at Russian illegal DVDrips, called R5 Line (Line is English, whereas most plain R5 release are in Russian). But even then the first few releases are screw ups, then after that come the “proper” or fixed versions.
The last decent quality, which I’m not a fan of are the DVD Screeners. These are industry insider releases that aren’t supposed to be seen by the public. They all come with “property of…” stamped warnings and other intrusive problems like video changing to Black & White every so often, etc. The problem with all scene group releases is that they try to fix these problems and their efforts are all in vain! The major problem is that most groups over-crop the video to get rid of any border size warning “property of…”. Then comes the constant blurred out digital trick of attempting to block any other intrusive inside the picture “property of…” warnings and they look awful!
The problem with DVD Screeners is that there’s only one original copy and every release group over-crops, edits to hell and basically screws up the video & audio by trying to tinker with it. The best example of this is with the screener of “I Am Legend”; there were releases then there are plenty of “propers” but all are being NUKED! Meaning that something has gone wrong and as I say, something always goes wrong when the scene groups try to chop up & edit DVD Screeners.
So the bottom line is either pay to rent or download the 2 CD XVID format of a DVDrip.
That’s my 2 cents!!!
Diamond is my favourite.
[quote comment="244624"]Nobody knows what they’re talking! First, you’re arguing about free illegal shit! If you’re that picky, go to your local Blockbusters and rent, meaning pay for DVD quality! If you’re so stupid to pay for mega bucks home stereo & video equipment but are watching pirated movies than you’re too stupid to live!
[/quote]
Thats why you get the HIGHDEF rips (about 4.5gigs) stick them on a dvd and play them on your dvd player (most can play xvid) so on your 1080p 720 tv you can have HighDef content. Why else do you think groups like hV and Septic are gaining in popularity?
Why would anybody write CDs or even DVD’s today. Havn’t you heard of HDMI or S-Video. And many TV’s play content from flash thumbdrives. Even HDD’s are cheaper than DVD’s. Welcome to the digital age morons !
And to the guy with $6000 stereo: Go fuck yourself, If you can put that kind of money in a stereo go buy some decent HD DVD’s you little fuck, cause you even the best DVD rips with AC3 sound like shit in a blender on a decent system. If you have the money support the movie industry - if you don’t then download.
STUPID…STUPID…STUPID; to people who are going off on a spending spree on high definition! First, it’s absolutely useless to purchase a high definition TV (HDMI) when most TV providers, cable or satellite still are broadcasting non HD programs and provide only a few digitally received channels!
Second, high definition is different than wide screen; only now some prime time TV shows are being shot in wide screen format. So if you’re like me, watching Law & Order on your TV gives you a black space above & below the picture. If you have a wide screen TV, the picture fits perfectly but it’s still not high defintion!
High definition is shot for very few TV specials and that’s about it! Actors don’t want it because high definitions shows the details of their face to clearly and for some actresses, they look terrible with normal TV make-up being shot on high definition! But what’s the use of buying an expensive high definition TV, when no TV shows are being shot in this format?
So that means you’re paying lots of money for a technology that might be easily replaced by something in the future? Remember lazer discs, it took 15 years to be replaced by CD’s (compact discs) but only a handful of movie titles were ever offered on these record size lazer discs! This is the exact same thing being played out with Blu-ray Disc versus HD(high definition)DVD; I don’t know about you but I’m not prepared to waste my hard earned money on technology that might not be around in 5 years!
So you’re telling people to spend lots of money for high definition technology to only play a few movies titles, as I say STUPID…STUPID…STUPID!!!
I’ll stick to watching movies on my TV being read by my inexpensive Divx player thank you very much!
[quote comment="244734"]
I’ll stick to watching movies on my TV being read by my inexpensive Divx player thank you very much![/quote]
CD - 20cents
STANDALONE DIVX Player- $25
Thats some serious win. Fuck all the rest of your stupid options mentioned.
They cant touch the above.
[quote comment="244624"]Nobody knows what they’re talking! First, you’re arguing about free illegal shit! If you’re that picky, go to your local Blockbusters and rent, meaning pay for DVD quality! If you’re so stupid to pay for mega bucks home stereo & video equipment but are watching pirated movies than you’re too stupid to live!
The only decent free quality of pirated movies come in a full 2 CD disc XVID format of a DVDrip. The release group Diamond does this well, when you go down to a 1 CD format, you loose both video & audio quality. If you have a Dixv player, which is all you need–just download a 2 CD DVDrip of a movie.
If you still have a lousy plain DVD player than convert the XVID to DVD format, there’s lots of software packages for this purpose. But don’t bother to waste time to merge CD 1 & CD 2, you’ll usually end up with audio sync problems. Just make each CD a separate DVD. [/quote]
You have no idea what you’re talking about. Different movie lengths can be fit across different amounts of DVDs. Joining two files does not always result in sync errors, Avidemux does it for me perfectly every time. Also, it sounds like you waste a lot of DVDs. Plenty of standalone DivX players have file size and dimension limits. For example, mine will not play a file over 2 gigs. Also, I don’t need to bother buying more DVD-Rs when I can fit a movie quickly on one of my CD-Rs.
Oh, and High Definition is still really in its mainstream infancy, to say it’s useless is insane.
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