Re: [dvd-discuss] "Star Wars Movie Now Showing on Internet"

["Michael A Rolenz" <Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org>]

OK So what we have here are pirated copies from PRIVATE showings (Exercise 
for the alert reader- Hollywood can't supply its own security before the 
show is released ;by watching the audience or NOT inviting crooks)....and 
the biggest threat is file compression... "it's not CD or DVD quality, but 
it's still digital quality, and it won't degrade." (if it's not CD or DVD 
quality, it's not already degraded?)

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In the latest preemptive Internet release of Hollywood's newest feature 
film,
 pirated versions of "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones" are making their 
way
 around the Web via Internet Relay Chat (IRC), according to published
 reports. 

 A week before the highly anticipated movie hits theaters, Internet users 
are
 viewing the feature as well as distributing illegal copies via IRC and 
other
 file-sharing protocols. One of the pirated copies is reportedly a 
camcorder
 recording of a private screening. 

 
<snip>

 While the latest Star Wars film reportedly is being distributed primarily 
via
 IRC, the Yankee Group's Goodman said the biggest platform for illegal 
movie
 distribution is DivX, a file compression coding method. 

 <snip>

 "However, we're seeing more and more leaks in the production line, so 
you're
 getting similar quality to what you'd see if you were sitting in the 
theater,"
 Goodman said. "It's digitized -- it's not CD or DVD quality, but it's 
still digital
 quality, and it won't degrade." 

 Compression Coming 

 
<snip>


 "Watch the technology in compression," Mak said, referring to DivX and
 other file compression technologies. "They're making strides there. It 
will be
 some time before files get down to a transferable, manageable size, so 
the
 threat is a little way off, but that will be a concern." 

<snip>
 




"Tuyet A. N. Tran" <tatn2000@yahoo.com>
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[According to a recent CNNfn analysis, the movie
industry seems to be one of the few businesses that
continues to see sizeable financial growth.]

http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17714.html


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