First HD-DVD Movie Leaked Onto BitTorrent

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The HD-DVD has been cracked, and high definition content is now being distributed freely over BitTorrent. We all knew this would happen sooner or later, looks it was “soonerâ€
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Wow. 20GB movie files. I don't know if the world is ready yet. Prices for bandwidth and disk space are going to have to drop a lot before this becomes common. Still, kudos for busting the drm. I figure this is more for 'proof of concept' than so that people can view pirated movies in HD.
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Finally they admit DRM is not about piracy

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070115-8616.html

Thank god I get plenty of bandwidth for my monthly fees. I may have to download this just to check it out.
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