Amazing Line Of Marketing - aXXo’s Pirated Movies Used to Promote the iMac

techtronic · 24-01-2008, 06:25 AM

The DVD ripper aXXo is without a doubt one of the most popular DVD-rippers. Even though he hasn’t been active since November 2007, his rips are still widely used, even by commercial outlets such as the John Lewis store. They must have thought, “Why use a real DVD if we can use a pirated movie for free?”

The aXXo rip was shown on an iMac displayed on an Apple stand at a John Lewis store. A member of the Hexus forums discovered this remarkable promotional material, and writes: “So I was in my local John Lewis store a week or so back, and I was checking out their new little Apple mac area, which had lots of Macs on display, with some desks setup and other accessories. They also had some wall mounted iMacs. Imagine my surprise when getting closer to one of them to see ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest’ - ripped by Axxo playing.”

Source : http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/01/24/axxos-pirated-movies-used-to-promote-the-imac

Third Eye · 24-01-2008, 08:30 AM

Lol

debsuvra · 24-01-2008, 10:02 AM

Yes Piracy is everywhere. I also myself saw pirated disks running in Kolkata Apple and Sony showroom in City Center.

Hitboxx · 24-01-2008, 10:26 AM

Lolz., and isn't DRM Sony's invention to combat piracy? Talk about hypocrisy bullshite.

goobimama · 24-01-2008, 01:01 PM

When I was working at International Film Festival Of India, for the grand opening they had sort of some tunnel with LCDs mounted on the top. And guess what they were playing on them. 5-in-1 DVDs! I'm like WTF! Piracy can't get more official than this!

abhinandh · 24-01-2008, 01:42 PM

x3060 · 24-01-2008, 02:13 PM

talk about change

.

Charan · 24-01-2008, 02:23 PM

aXXo rips should be made available on iTunes Rentals

JK

casanova · 24-01-2008, 02:29 PM

^^ Hehe

debsuvra · 24-01-2008, 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charan

aXXo rips should be made available on iTunes Rentals

JK

with Free of Cost

napster007 · 24-01-2008, 03:47 PM

ALL HAIL aXXo!!!!

axxo · 24-01-2008, 04:28 PM

Thx

goobimama · 24-01-2008, 04:35 PM

The world is a better place now cause aXXo has stopped his crappy rips.

Pathik · 24-01-2008, 04:39 PM

^^ His rips were a godsend for poor people with low speed gprs connections like me.
6 Axxo rips = 1 decent 720p rip.
maybe more than that.

rosemolr · 24-01-2008, 05:41 PM

axxo..you are really great man..you are doing a very helpful job to us...Axxo Rocks...Regards..Killerx

napster007 · 24-01-2008, 07:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by goobimama

The world is a better place now cause aXXo has stopped his crappy rips.

Why do you have a problem with everything...............if you hate aXXo do not say that the world is a better place. Some aXXo fans will murder you say this else where.

ALL HAIL aXXo

csczero · 24-01-2008, 07:12 PM

AXXO WE ALL MISS YOU!!! .

...... please come back soon

aryayush · 24-01-2008, 07:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by napster007

Why do you have a problem with everything

The poor guy only said that he does not like axxo's rips. Does that constitute everything for you? Don't you have a problem with certain things in life?

csczero · 24-01-2008, 08:00 PM

ya rightly said ....n1

krazzy · 24-01-2008, 08:36 PM

aXXo's rips really rock. The quality is really amazing. He should be given the Nobel prize or something.

@goobi you have done the biggest sin of your life by calling aXXo's rips crappy. May you never have any more grapes in your life. Nor any strawberries.

goobimama · 24-01-2008, 08:40 PM

I enjoy HD movies. However, I don't mind watching 1.4GB rips as well cause they at least come with decent sound. But aXXo seemed to have been stuck in the stone ages. 700MB rips just don't cut it these days. The problem here is that my idiot friends used to always download these crappy rips because of god knows what reason. These people are those who watch a movie for the sake of watching it. Even a CAM print is fine. So I had to get the same movie again because of this nonsense. Now there is no aXXo, so they are forced to get the bigger files (in many cases at least).

There. That was my problem. I should have maybe put "My world is a better place...", but it just sounded better referring to mankind as a whole.

Quote:

Originally Posted by krazyfrog.

aXXo's rips really rock. The quality is really amazing. He should be given the Nobel prize or something.

@goobi you have done the biggest sin of your life by calling aXXo's rips crappy. May you never have any more grapes in your life. Nor any strawberries.

Nooooo! Please dont put such a curse on me! Strawberries I'm fine with. But not Grapes! I can't live without grapes!

debsuvra · 24-01-2008, 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by goobimama

Nooooo! Please dont put such a curse on me! Strawberries I'm fine with. But not Grapes! I can't live without grapes!

LOL

A real fan of grapes here

xbonez · 24-01-2008, 10:26 PM

talk about piracy being everywhere...when i went to the World Cyber games, in front of me, before starting NFSMW, he first used that hide tool and thn launched a cracked ver.

drgrudge · 24-01-2008, 10:35 PM

Normally we don't allow scene news discussions but since this got mixed up with news of other kind...

aXXo rips sucks. Only good thing is for people who like low data rips and who just want to watch the movie (but then you can go for TC/TS/CAM/DVD SCR rips).

He just re encodes the 1.4 GB and uploads his rips with the aXXo stamp. It's MP3 audio codec, bad resolution (watch in any decent res. - above 1280X800, you'll know what I mean). Do a Gspot for a aXXo and a 1.4 (say DiAMOND) and there'll be a sea of difference.

Ever wondered why he releases his rips well after we have other rips lying around?

Please keep the discussions to the technical aspects. Comments like "aXXo deserves noble", "You'll be murdered", "you committed sin.." etc won't be tolerated. Don't act childish. We know you love P2P but we need to respect the rules as well. 3 members (so called "senior members") were banned in the last 3 days. So hold your horses...

krazzy · 24-01-2008, 10:56 PM

@goobi everybody likes to they HD content. I for one would definitely like some HD porn. But when you're downloading from the net size does matter. And the smaller the better. Most people don't have ultra fast download speeds nor unlimited download limit. In such situation aXXo's rips offer a fine balance of quality and size. The aXXo rips that I have are definitely of good quality, they're just low resolution and are stereo and not multichannel. But they're fine for me.

Plus my machine isn't really comfortable with HD. So for people like me and Pathik, aXXo rips are great.

@grudge chill dude. I was just joking. goobi can have his grapes. And the strawberries. And nor do I love P2P (never used it) nor aXXo (never once did he come home for dinner).

napster007 · 24-01-2008, 11:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aryayush

Don't you have a problem with certain things in life?

problem with free stuff & aXXo rips.......no man,i love em!

axxo · 25-01-2008, 07:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by goobimama

I enjoy HD movies. However, I don't mind watching 1.4GB rips as well cause they at least come with decent sound. But aXXo seemed to have been stuck in the stone ages. 700MB rips just don't cut it these days. The problem here is that my idiot friends used to always download these crappy rips because of god knows what reason. These people are those who watch a movie for the sake of watching it. Even a CAM print is fine. So I had to get the same movie again because of this nonsense. Now there is no aXXo, so they are forced to get the bigger files (in many cases at least).

There. That was my problem. I should have maybe put "My world is a better place...", but it just sounded better referring to mankind as a whole.

Nooooo! Please dont put such a curse on me! Strawberries I'm fine with. But not Grapes! I can't live without grapes!

not everyone owe Logitech 5500 & 22" widescreen TFT..for ppl like them it does matter...but aXXo well known for quality/size ratio...
and poor ppl like us who wake up on 256 kbps connection...nothing but gift..

csczero · 25-01-2008, 12:01 PM

AXXO ..... poor man's Ripper

sabret00the · 26-01-2008, 04:05 AM

Lol this is funny..

techtronic · 26-01-2008, 06:29 AM

IMHO, DiAMOND & SAPHiRE are the best in Ripping.

aXXo on the other hand does not follow the so called principles of ripping.
Most of his rips are pixelated and audio looks like you are listening in a cave.

24-01-2008, 06:25 AM	#1 (permalink)
techtronic I Always Prefer 1080p Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,017	Amazing Line Of Marketing - aXXo’s Pirated Movies Used to Promote the iMac The DVD ripper aXXo is without a doubt one of the most popular DVD-rippers. Even though he hasn’t been active since November 2007, his rips are still widely used, even by commercial outlets such as the John Lewis store. They must have thought, “Why use a real DVD if we can use a pirated movie for free?” The aXXo rip was shown on an iMac displayed on an Apple stand at a John Lewis store. A member of the Hexus forums discovered this remarkable promotional material, and writes: “So I was in my local John Lewis store a week or so back, and I was checking out their new little Apple mac area, which had lots of Macs on display, with some desks setup and other accessories. They also had some wall mounted iMacs. Imagine my surprise when getting closer to one of them to see ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest’ - ripped by Axxo playing.” Source : http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/01/24/axxos-pirated-movies-used-to-promote-the-imac

24-01-2008, 08:30 AM	#2 (permalink)
Third Eye Bayerische Motoren Werke Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: not very far from you Posts: 4,284	Re: Amazing Line Of Marketing - aXXo’s Pirated Movies Used to Promote the iMac Lol __________________ File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N)

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debsuvra is NOT a PC/Mac Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Pondicherry Posts: 974	Re: Amazing Line Of Marketing - aXXo’s Pirated Movies Used to Promote the iMac Yes Piracy is everywhere. I also myself saw pirated disks running in Kolkata Apple and Sony showroom in City Center.

24-01-2008, 10:26 AM	#4 (permalink)
Hitboxx Juke Box Hero Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,204	Re: Amazing Line Of Marketing - aXXo’s Pirated Movies Used to Promote the iMac Lolz., and isn't DRM Sony's invention to combat piracy? Talk about hypocrisy bullshite.

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goobimama  Macboy Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Goa Posts: 4,486	Re: Amazing Line Of Marketing - aXXo’s Pirated Movies Used to Promote the iMac When I was working at International Film Festival Of India, for the grand opening they had sort of some tunnel with LCDs mounted on the top. And guess what they were playing on them. 5-in-1 DVDs! I'm like WTF! Piracy can't get more official than this! __________________ I'm like a bird...

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goobimama  Macboy Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Goa Posts: 4,486	Re: Amazing Line Of Marketing - aXXo’s Pirated Movies Used to Promote the iMac The world is a better place now cause aXXo has stopped his crappy rips. __________________ I'm like a bird...

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Pathik Google Bot Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 9,751	Re: Amazing Line Of Marketing - aXXo’s Pirated Movies Used to Promote the iMac ^^ His rips were a godsend for poor people with low speed gprs connections like me. 6 Axxo rips = 1 decent 720p rip. maybe more than that.

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rosemolr In The Zone Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 200	Re: Amazing Line Of Marketing - aXXo’s Pirated Movies Used to Promote the iMac axxo..you are really great man..you are doing a very helpful job to us...Axxo Rocks...Regards..Killerx __________________ Extreme Mobile Professional..Ask anything about it.. Provide you all applications in symbian java uiq platforms THERE IS NO SPOON*

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csczero In The Zone Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 241	Re: Amazing Line Of Marketing - aXXo’s Pirated Movies Used to Promote the iMac ya rightly said ....n1 __________________ DELL 1500 Vostro , Playstation 3, LG LD460 42" , Nokia E5

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krazzy Techtree Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Mumbai Posts: 2,191	Re: Amazing Line Of Marketing - aXXo’s Pirated Movies Used to Promote the iMac aXXo's rips really rock. The quality is really amazing. He should be given the Nobel prize or something. @goobi you have done the biggest sin of your life by calling aXXo's rips crappy. May you never have any more grapes in your life. Nor any strawberries.

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drgrudge Another Brick in the Wall Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dubai/Chennai Posts: 3,026	Re: Amazing Line Of Marketing - aXXo’s Pirated Movies Used to Promote the iMac Normally we don't allow scene news discussions but since this got mixed up with news of other kind... aXXo rips sucks. Only good thing is for people who like low data rips and who just want to watch the movie (but then you can go for TC/TS/CAM/DVD SCR rips). He just re encodes the 1.4 GB and uploads his rips with the aXXo stamp. It's MP3 audio codec, bad resolution (watch in any decent res. - above 1280X800, you'll know what I mean). Do a Gspot for a aXXo and a 1.4 (say DiAMOND) and there'll be a sea of difference. Ever wondered why he releases his rips well after we have other rips lying around? Please keep the discussions to the technical aspects. Comments like "aXXo deserves noble", "You'll be murdered", "you committed sin.." etc won't be tolerated. Don't act childish. We know you love P2P but we need to respect the rules as well. 3 members (so called "senior members") were banned in the last 3 days. So hold your horses... __________________ I Love Photography. I Love Aperture. I Love Mac.

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krazzy Techtree Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Mumbai Posts: 2,191	Re: Amazing Line Of Marketing - aXXo’s Pirated Movies Used to Promote the iMac @goobi everybody likes to they HD content. I for one would definitely like some HD porn. But when you're downloading from the net size does matter. And the smaller the better. Most people don't have ultra fast download speeds nor unlimited download limit. In such situation aXXo's rips offer a fine balance of quality and size. The aXXo rips that I have are definitely of good quality, they're just low resolution and are stereo and not multichannel. But they're fine for me. Plus my machine isn't really comfortable with HD. So for people like me and Pathik, aXXo rips are great. @grudge chill dude. I was just joking. goobi can have his grapes. And the strawberries. And nor do I love P2P (never used it) nor aXXo (never once did he come home for dinner). Last edited by krazzy; 24-01-2008 at 10:56 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

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techtronic I Always Prefer 1080p Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,017	Re: Amazing Line Of Marketing - aXXo’s Pirated Movies Used to Promote the iMac IMHO, DiAMOND & SAPHiRE are the best in Ripping. aXXo on the other hand does not follow the so called principles of ripping. Most of his rips are pixelated and audio looks like you are listening in a cave.

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