A mere month after the release of programmer Muslix64's BackupHDDVD, which allows users to bypass the copy protection of both HD DVD and Blu-Ray discs, the first pirated movie has hit BitTorrent. Serenity is now floating around on BitTorrent channels as a .EVO file, playable on most DVD playback software, weighing in at 19.6GB with MPEG-4 VC-1 encoding. BackupHDDVD is not a complete package as far as ripping discs, because users must obtain and insert a volume or title key to extract the files. However, is this first HD DVD torrent the beginning of a new influx of illegal movie downloads via hackers and pirates? Do big studios already have to worry about an ensuing copy protection battle, with the format wars not even settled?First pirated HD DVD movie hits BitTorrent
A mere month after the release of programmer Muslix64's BackupHDDVD, which allows users to bypass the copy protection of both HD DVD and Blu-Ray discs, the first pirated movie has hit BitTorrent. Serenity is now floating around on BitTorrent channels as a .EVO file, playable on most DVD playback software, weighing in at 19.6GB with MPEG-4 VC-1 encoding. BackupHDDVD is not a complete package as far as ripping discs, because users must obtain and insert a volume or title key to extract the files. However, is this first HD DVD torrent the beginning of a new influx of illegal movie downloads via hackers and pirates? Do big studios already have to worry about an ensuing copy protection battle, with the format wars not even settled?Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. hahaha, only the daft movie studios will wanna support hd-dvd now
Posted at 11:51AM on Jan 18th 2007 by anonymous
1. I don't think there's such things as MPEG-4 VC-1...
Posted at 2:36PM on Jan 17th 2007 by Fer.