[aldo_14]

At only 19.5Gb....

A high-definition format movie has made its way onto BitTorrent. A pirated copy of the hit science fiction movie Serenity has been ripped from a HD DVD disc and made available to users of the popular P2P file sharing protocol.

The availability of the movie, which weighs in at a chunky 19.6GB and comes as a .EVO file compressed using the MPEG-4 VC-1, follows news a month ago that hackers had succeeded in defeating the AACS copy-protection technology used in HD DVD format discs. A Java-based software package called BackupHDDVD, developed by a programmer known only as Muslix64, is designed to allow users to backup next generation discs.

To decrypt DVD source material would require obtaining a disc's disc's volume or title key separately, a non-trivial task not performed by BackupHDDVD itself. Hackers may have obtained the key separately before using BackupHDDVD, Ars Technica speculates.

But since the exact mechanism used to rip the HD-DVD remains unclear content producers publishing to the next-generation format have inherited a serious problem the rest of the movie and music industry have been struggling to deal with for years.

[Turambar]

hooray!

*checks torrent*

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*wonders if daemon tools can handle an HD-DVD

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*decides against it, 20 gigs is too much

[Centrixo]

At only 19.5Gb....

A high-definition format movie has made its way onto BitTorrent. A pirated copy of the hit science fiction movie Serenity has been ripped from a HD DVD disc and made available to users of the popular P2P file sharing protocol.

The availability of the movie, which weighs in at a chunky 19.6GB and comes as a .EVO file compressed using the MPEG-4 VC-1, follows news a month ago that hackers had succeeded in defeating the AACS copy-protection technology used in HD DVD format discs. A Java-based software package called BackupHDDVD, developed by a programmer known only as Muslix64, is designed to allow users to backup next generation discs.

To decrypt DVD source material would require obtaining a disc's disc's volume or title key separately, a non-trivial task not performed by BackupHDDVD itself. Hackers may have obtained the key separately before using BackupHDDVD, Ars Technica speculates.

But since the exact mechanism used to rip the HD-DVD remains unclear content producers publishing to the next-generation format have inherited a serious problem the rest of the movie and music industry have been struggling to deal with for years.

enough said.

[Taristin]

I couldn't find it when I looked 3 days ago, when I first saw this article, sadly. But glad its my favourite movie

[Bobboau]

apparently you can't stop the signal...

[Ulala]

20gigs? Sheesh. More quality than I'd care to "acquire."

[Mongoose]

That was fast.

[Flipside]

Heh, you think 20 Gigs is bad? I've seen soundbanks for Virtual Synths on Bit Torrent pushing double that size

[IPAndrews]

enough said.

That's great. Thanks for that. You know one day someone is going to quote a whole frickin' book and simply put "QFT" at the end .

[KappaWing]

Well he did bold part of it.

[Charismatic]

True. 20 gig, lol thats the size of 20 FS2's.

[Taristin]

Mrah, I torrented 40Gb these last 2 weeks alone... this is nothing.

[Kosh]

How long until this thread gets locked for talking about piracy?

[Windrunner]

How long until this thread gets locked for talking about piracy?

Like i said you can talk about piracy or about what hell you want but if I see any links to pirated material it will be closed.

[peterc10]

would it be locked it u say put www . illegalsite .com ?

[Taristin]

Don't be a smartass... The rules are clear. Talk is ok. Links are not.

[peterc10]

 

[Grizzly]

How long until this thread gets locked for talking about piracy?

Like i said you can talk about piracy or about what hell you want but if I see any links to pirated material it will be closed.

that doesn't do anything about the links

[Fragrag]

good job at choosing Serenity as the first hacked film

Very angry post with many swearing will follow this message, if you don't want to read it, please skip it...:

GODDAMN TELENET, MY PISSING FARKING CHEAP ISP! YOUR ****ING DOWNLOADLIMIT IS ONLY 10 GIGABYTES! HOW THE HELL IS A NORMAL PERSON SUPPOSE TO SURVIVE ON THAT! EVEN IF YOU DON'T PIRATE, YOU DOWNLOAD A ****LOAD! EVEN DEMOS ARE GIGANTIC, LIKE COMPANY OF HEROES THAT WEIGHED A ****ING 1.7 GIGABYTES! AND YOU STILL DON'T RAISE THE LIMIT! SURE YOU MAY HAVE LIGHTNING SPEEDS, BUT WHAT'S THE USE OF THEM IF YOU GET STUCK ON THINBAND! TALKING ABOUT THAT, WHY DO YOU LIMIT US TO A ****ING MEASLEY DIALUP SPEED WHEN WE REACH OUR LIMIT! I'M TALKING ABOUT 28.8KB/S, FROM 6MB/S. THAT'S LIKE GIVING A GUY 5 BILLION DOLLARS BUT IF HE USES 10 DOLLARS THEN HE CAN'T SPEND ANYMORE! GODDAMN YOU AND YOUR CHEAP WAYS!  

[Taristin]

Its fine. You likely wont find the torrent for this for some time anyways. It's restricted to private torrent sites at the moment, and you have to be invited to those.