FIRST PIRATED HIGH-DEF MOVIE HITS THE WEB

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FIRST PIRATED HIGH-DEF MOVIE HITS THE WEB
Wednesday, January 17 2007

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 MPEG-4 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."

COURT FINDS CHINESE PIRATE GUILTY, BUT METES OUT SMALL FINE
Wednesday, December 20 2006
The MPAA has won what many might consider a pyrrhic victory over a major seller of counterfeit DVDs in China. The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court ruled on Tuesday that the Yu Hao Qing DVD store and its parent, Beijing Century Hai Hong Trading Co., violated copyright regulations. But the penalty -- the defendants were ordered to compensate the U.S. studios $20,000 -- was regarded as barely a slap on the wrist. Besides such (more)

YET ANOTHER DVD FORMAT IS LAUNCHED
Friday, December 8 2006
Amplifying the babel of high-definition DVD recording languages, China on Wednesday took the wraps off 54 new video players playing discs recorded in the EVD (Enhanced Versatile Disc) format. In a report from Beijing, the Associated Press said that Chinese electronics makers plan to switch completely to EVD by 2008. They predicted that, because of the size of the Chinese market, the switchover will have no impact on manufacturers. They also indicated that they will (more)