Pirate HD-DVDs are here

Late last year, a hacker claimed to have circumvented the copy protection scheme used to protect HD DVD and Blu-ray content. Just over two weeks after the news broke, the online pirate community is seeing the fruits of hacker labor with the first release of a full HD DVD available for download. The first HD DVD movie released is Serenity, which weighs in at 19.6 GB. The file reportedly is available in EVO format and is playable with PC-based players such as PowerDVD at full 1080p resolution.

How much would you have to love a movie to want to wait long enough to download 20GB of data? I’d just buy the movie and be done with it, but I could be in the minority. I can see a lot of people receiving letters from their ISP due to extreme bandwidth overages thanks to this one. I don’t condone piracy, but it’s nice to finally see such stupid copy protection “broken”. I fully believe in people being able to back up movies they shell out a lot of cash for.

Source: DailyTech