First HD-DVD flics online
p2pnet.net News:- The 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?
Torrentfreak – The Netherlands
Also See:
cracked – BackupHDDVD no good for Blu-Ray, January 5, 2006
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January 15th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Just a heads up – legalities aside, don’t rush to download this movie. Many ISPs including Rogers impose monthly bandwidth caps. Rogers, for example, allows no more than 60GB of data to be transferred (upload and download combined) per month. If you exceed this you will get receive a warning, and later, account termination. One HD-DVD movie at 20GB constitutes about 1/3 Rogers’ monthly bandwidth allowance.
More and more bandwidth-hungry applications are making their way onto the internet. If your current ISP isn’t keeping up with the times, ditch them for a more forward-thinking provider. Check out http://www.canadianisp.com for unbiased aggregated reviews of ISPs by their users.
January 15th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Is there a similar web site out there for U.S. ISPs?
January 18th, 2007 at 4:14 am
A recompressed version with some loss of quality should occupy 4 gigs and would fit on DVD, like current DVDRips fit on one or two CDs.