First Pirated HD DVD Movie Hits BitTorrent

[techtronic]

Pirates decided that the copy protection scheme for HD DVD was worth a shot. The result? The movie is entitled Serenity and was made available as a .EVO file which is playable on most DVD playback software packages. The file was encoded in MPEG-4 VC-1 resulting in 19.6 GB worth of hard disk space. The first full-resolution rip of an HD DVD movie on BitTorrent. Who knows, maybe this is yet another factor in the HD war.

Source : http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070115-8622.html
http://www.neowin.net/

[nishant_nms]

no one can stop pirates

[amitava82]

downloading pirated stuffs will be a issue when size gets increased. imagine you are downloading a 20GB torrent @ so called broadband speed... LoL

[tarey_g]

SERENITY , YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo . One of my fav movies.

I luv but hate torrents b'coze of those spyware.

[Apollo]

Yeah, I too think downloading an HD DVD movie isn't commercially viable due to the bandwidth bottlenecks.

[shadow slayer 2007]

i could tell my cousin in US to download
he gets speeds of more than 1mbps wen he downloads
he has external harddisk seagate 300gb
wen he comes i will get the movies but he didnt tell me which one
he told he downloaded many movies hd quality
wats the price of hd dvd or blu ray drive and a blank hd dvd and blurayt disk??
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he said that it is in mkv format
he can play it with jetaudio
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do u ppl get music hd channel in india??
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size ranges from 4gb to 10gb

[gxsaurav]

@shadow slayer

HD DVD Player (for TV) & Drives for computer are hardly available right now

[navjotjsingh]

Neither I have the hard drive nor the broadband required to download HD quality movies. Indians won't find this interesting unless BSNL and MTNL gives 2Mbps on Unlimited plans as well.

Till then I am content with Xvid 1CD Movies.

[iMav]

whose gonna dwnld 20gb here in india .... by the time 1 movie is dwnldd the sequel will be released

[alok4best]

Sometimes it takes days to leech a 700MB movie...what to talk about GBs..

[amitava82]

Originally Posted by mAV3

whose gonna dwnld 20gb here in india .... by the time 1 movie is dwnldd the sequel will be released

LoL well said....

[Choto Cheeta]

i dont understand... i have seen those 15GB HD DVDs over torrents and quite a long time ago ... this isnt a new news ??

[nix]

i think downloading pirated stuff is dangerous in USA as they may catch you if they find you're downloading lotsa stuff....

[W i d e S c r e e N]

Originally Posted by techtronic

Pirates decided that the copy protection scheme for HD DVD was worth a shot.

There are no "pirates" Just a user of a torrent portal, used a software called backup hd dvd
forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=119871

Originally Posted by shadow slayer 2007

1>i could tell my cousin in US to download
he gets speeds of more than 1mbps wen he downloads....he told he downloaded many movies hd quality
wats the price of hd dvd or blu ray drive and a blank hd dvd and blurayt disk??

2>he can play it with jetaudio
3>do u ppl get music hd channel in india??

1>He must've said 10mbps, HD Shows/Movies recorded via PVRs uploaded to the net, If u want one just search "hdtv torrent", BD/HDDVD drives costs 20k+

2>Sir, please explain how hd vids can be played with Jetaudio???
3>MHD is available only in US.

<<some intresting quotes>>

It has come to the attention of the staff that with the successful decryption of AACS, the internet has been abuzz about this breakthrough in being able to backup your copyrighted HD DVD's. Add to that the fact that one of our users was able to decryt an HD DVD and upload it here, and people have even more to talk about...

Upon discussion in IRC we're thinking 1080p x264 with ac3 audio in mkv for HD-DVD Rips. Bitrate ~9Mbps so it will fit on a DVD-9. This would entail demuxing the .EVOs, transcoding (mostly) VC-1 to x264 and transcoding DD+/TrueHD to 448kbps 5.1 AC3.

BTW, it takes around 21hrs to download 20 GB on dataone @ 2mbps, if u get that speed from the source site

[NIGHTMARE]

Thanks God Not In India

[saurav29]

Originally Posted by alok4best

Sometimes it takes days to leech a 700MB movie...what to talk about GBs..

i cannot see the point of the comment ..... my download speed is roughly 205 KBps averaged over 8hrs (0000 to 0800 hrs) so if i want i can leech it in 4days as avg data downloaded is 5 GB a day..... since many peoples donot jump on every torrent so if the quality is Great why Not INDIANS????

Peace
Raj

[amitava82]

I seriously doubt how long BSNL will continue this night time free plan for 2mbps connection. definetly they will withdraw night time for 2 mbps or they will restrict it to 256kbps... so guys download as much as u can

[navjotjsingh]

Yaar kuch to shubh shubh bolo Be positive(and its not my blood group )

[goobimama]

Currently Superman, Chronicles of riddick, pitch black, serenity, Batman begins, kiss kiss bang bang, miami vice, the Mummy are all available for download on some private trackers (can't mention the name, will get banned). All over 20Gigs.

[navjotjsingh]

That totals 160GB+ double the size of my HDD

Oh My. I dont have space for that file. Anyways downloading that file in india is painful with out 256 Kbps and they call it has broadband. lool

[goobimama]

@Saurav_cheetah: The rips that were on the net were ripped from HDTV broadcasts. HD DVD and Blu Ray offer much higher bit rate, better sound quality as well as the much debated 1080p.

I've already got 7 HD movies downloaded (HDTV rips, not HD DVD rips). File size is either DVD5 or DVD9 (for longer movies). The quality of these is simply amazing.

True it takes days to leech a 700MB movie, but at 7-8kbps what else can one expect? Leeching HD content always gives you amazingly fast speeds (full 32KBps on my 256k).

Also, it is pointless playing a HD DVD 1080p on a 19 inch monitor.....

[Choto Cheeta]

even i have seen that when i burn a DVD RIP of 700 MB on my 25" TV using a DVD player and compair with playing the same Movie on a DVD9 format... there is not much of a difference... certainlly not any which can a naked eye wouldfind... though some time i felt that the i need increase the volume a little more for the ripped AVIs... apart from that performance is more or less same with Both 700 MB Ripped AVI or a 8GB DVD9 movie...

[kumarmohit]

19GB:-O

Even with the Mbps speeds it will take eons to leech add to it the peer up load and we are talking in weeks and months (Thats excluding the data caps)

[multi]

Originally Posted by saurav_cheeta

i dont understand... i have seen those 15GB HD DVDs over torrents and quite a long time ago ... this isnt a new news ??

yeah even boxset torrents are there with more than 20 GB , whts so fuss about big file size ?

like James bond 007 21 DIsc DVDr box set - torrent file size - 92.52 GB (Yes it's not typo , Ninty two point fifty two GB)

another is like LOTR 12 Disc DVDr box set -torrent file size - 52.62 GB

oh , they still active

[mehulved]

See this too for something huge to download http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/show...76&postcount=7 . Unfortunately it seems that torrent isn't available now.

[ax3]

coooooooooool ..............

[Choto Cheeta]

2GB Image... i guess better ask my vendor to provide me a 2GB RAM 1st... anyway lets download that 1st..

[shadow slayer 2007]

Blu-ray, HD DVD copy protection cracked
Tuesday 02 Jan 2007 - 10:09

A computer hacker claims to have broken the AACS (Advanced Access Content System) encryption specification used to control unauthorized copying on HD-DVD and Blu-ray video players.

The hacker, who goes by the name of Muslix64, said he wrote the software earlier this month after hardware compatibility problems made it impossible for him to play HD-DVDs on an Xbox that was connected to his PC.

"I started to get mad," he wrote in a posting to the Doom9.org discussion forum. "This is now what we call 'fair use'! So I decide to decrypt that movie."

Muslix64 has posted a video purporting to show the software decrypting a copy of Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film, Full Metal Jacket.

This development is a black eye for the new optical disc formats, which are both jockeying to be successor to the DVD. The Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator, the group that sets the AACS specification, could not be reached for comment Friday.

Seven years ago, a 16-year-old Norwegian named Jon Johansen performed a similar feat, cracking the CSS (content scrambling system) encryption scheme used by DVDs. Johansen was eventually acquitted on charges relating to the release of his decrypting software.

By cracking AACS, Muslix64 may have violated the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which prohibits users from circumventing copy-protection tools without the permission of the copyright holder, said Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Still, the software seems to have been written out of a legitimate sense of frustration with onerous copy-protection mechanisms, von Lohmann said. "He went out and bought a fancy new product that he thought would improve his experience and despite the fact that he's a legitimate buyer, it didn't work."

"When American consumers go and buy movies legitimately in the store, they should be entitled to play them back on whatever they'd like," he said. "Unfortunately that's not the set of rules that Hollywood seems to be embracing."