Comments on: MPAA war on ‘pirates’

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 01:45:37 +0000

I mean first of all WMD in Iraq.

Then,

Downloading is killing the film industry.

What a joke, why do we actually believe these people and then support them with our money??

How about this: “scaremongering is creating terrorism” sounds a lot more apt to me!!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:34:15 +0000

Here we go again.
The big wigs are not thinking how can we use this technology but how can we stop it, is this not the same sort of thing as when:
tape 2 tape audio decks came out
vhs recorders
dvd recorders

They cant make bit torrent illegal because well them simply can’t. Big companies are now using Bit torrent as an alternative to file hosting o servers reducing there strain ,costs etc. All they will simply do is force the scene more underground; torrents will all have names like 364uhj34j383jfjhjduifh instead of stupid things like “Micorsoft Windows XP Pro” ; they will be tracked by trackers that you cant see and the torrent files will only be avalible from certain forums to certain members. These types of things are well underway and it won’t be long until, unless you know where to find something then you simply won’t.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:32:12 +0000

600- or 700mb downloads with reasonable quality, but often with sound or pixelation explosion problems where suddenly, part of the picture is lost to panels of colour, or the sound is poor or not synched. If a watcher saw something like this on a tape or DVD rental, he/she would demand a refund???????? wot a load of crap, fact most verified movies are dvd quality with ac3 being the best i can see why they are scared because a similar bullshit was put about on mp3’s and eventually the majority of the public learned the truth!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:57:29 +0000

your talking about the elite groups i think

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:34:55 +0000

“DVDRs at 4.3 GB just take too much time, even with broadband”

Totally agree with you there. I dream of a day when Internet2 is a common place technology. That’s when these industries will really feel the backlash from alienating it’s what used to be it’s customers. They certainly deserve it too, and it will serve them right for not looking ahead at what the consequences might be based on these current and extremely ill advised actions.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:25:13 +0000

The info about movies downloads does seem very outdated.

There are now many 2CD and DVDR releases. These are generally of good quality. Very few movie rips have problems anymore because if they do they are nuked straight away on VQ or elsewhere.
There are rip standards for audio, video, cropping, number of CDs, etc, which the release groups follow. Nevertheless, bad rips do exist but usually come from people outside the release community who are clueless about how to rip movies.

The problems with bad sound and video in movie files usually comes from corrupt files. These are common on files from Kazaa but are very unlikely
on networks which use a proper hashing system, like BT.

If people really wanted to avoid low quality they wouldn’t bother with cams, telesyncs, teleclines, screeners, vcds and svcds. In my opinion only rips from dvdscreeners and retail dvd-rips are the only ones worth saving (DVDRs at 4.3 GB just take too much time, even with broadband).