Enemy Inside

[gitreel]

I found this at www.slyck.com
They always focus on cam versions though. They need to do a better job of looking within.

Enemy inside – Rips even before premier
When people on the popular media is talking (writing) about filesharing of new movies they always mention cam-releases with very bad quality, which is logical, but not true. More interesting that for movies not older than ~3 weeks the number of downloads of good (sometimes almost dvd-) quality releases is higher than the rate of cam-downloads. Everybody knows how to make a simple cam release, but most people have no idea where these good quality releases are coming from.

I have a favorite tv-show 'Dead Like Me', but in my country it's not in the air, so I usually download the new episodes when I see them in somewhere (torrent/hash-site), I do not really care about release dates. Yesterday I was very happy because I just finished downloading the 5th episode of the second season. It was labeled as dvdrip, which is impossible, but I thought it's a good quality hdtv-rip. It had a very good quality, a few hours later I went to imdb, and I found an interesting thing: an advertisement. Dead Like Me season premier tomorrow… hmm... I checked my files from season two there was one thing missing which is usually there: the logo of the channel… I downloaded original air dates and started to check my episode library, and a few Internet resources… app. 10% of the tv-episodes was released before the air date. (was from 3 different studios) Ok that's interesting, but nobody cares about episodes, they are for one time air. I think if somebody is such a big fan of a show to download episodes, will watch it on TV too. So headed to movies.

So I started to check movie premiere dates and release dates and qualities. I found some interesting: Return of the King (2003) - a dvd-quality release was available a few days before the premiere. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) – dvd-qual. release 3 days after the premier… and I could continue… Interesting that most of these releases are from movies premiered at the same time all over the world, so these copys aren't from an american theatre.

At most of these releases you can recognize somewhere the typical errors of normal film, but very rare. It means that somebody with a professional equipment copied the film to a digital format, before even used it in the theater, so these are not from a stolen tape, somebody used the devices of the theater and an original copy of the movie.

OK, but it's still just a few movie, the most popular ones, but still just a few. I started to check the newest releases for the newest movies and I compared it with half-year-old releases and movies. Guess what I found: six months ago almost all was cam. Today almost all is a better-quality (still far from dvdrip) Telesync. (I compared: I, Robot, Catwoman, Spiderman 2, Fahrenheit 9/11, Shrek 2 & 2 Fast 2 Furious, Cold Mountain, Daredevil, Gothica, Hulk)

After that we should asked the question: was it a good idea from american studios to start hunting cams? Maybe the only thing they achieved, that releases now has better quality. To me it seems that even the newest films always finds somehow the way to the Internet.

[BJ_M]