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Post by BuffyFanOne on Jan 18, 2007 11:38:27 GMT -5
From www.imdb.comFirst Pirated High-Def Movie Hits the Web The first pirated version of an HD DVD movie has made its appearance on the Internet. As first reported by the website Ars Technica, the sci-fi movie Serenity, encoded in VC-1, takes up 19.6 GB on a hard drive. (It would take about a day to download over a typical broadband connection.) The appearance of Serenity on BitTorrent comes less than a month after a programmer calling himself Muslix64 said that he had been able to bypass the copy protection on an HD DVD disc and indicated that the same method could be used with Blu-ray discs as well. In its original posting, Ars Technica asked, "Now that the genie is out of the lamp, so to speak, what will the reaction be from the content industry?" Thus far, the Motion Picture Association of America has not yet commented. Atleast somebody cares about Serenity.....enough to give it away for free On one hand, this could effect the revenue that the studio sees from sales but it also shows that Serenity/Firefly is in demand! So much so that it is the movie that broke the code so to speak. Thoughts?
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Post by DanMan on Jan 18, 2007 12:47:39 GMT -5
I read about this yesterday myself. Serenity is on the cutting edge of all the latest tech happenings! I'm certainly not worried about any lost revenue as HD DVDs aren't exactly popular at all. In fact I think it'll be years before I know anyone who has a next gen video player (including the PS3).
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