CAM rips for new theatrical releases...why not HDD?

[hollowman]

I'm doing research for a blog article on the so-called "dark web". A question arose:
Why do so many "nasty"/"dirty"/"illegal" rippers for new (theatrical, first-run) features go the CAM-RIP route? These videos look/sound AWFUL.
Why can't "nasty"/"dirty"/"illegal" -- -- rippers get the "real thing" from theater's Digital Cinema PC/HDD (via USB, etc.) Some... ahem ... "nasty"/"dirty"/"illegal" theatre projectionists/file-shares should surely be aware of this? Or is the/an obstacle a technical one: e.g., the "live steam" or video format for movie theaters encoded in some "uncryptable" way?

Refs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinema
http://magazine.creativecow.net/arti...digital-cinema

Oh, and uh, one more thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDDEpnjgTyw

[smrpix]

The files are huge, secured electronically to the playback device, and the digital fingerprinting makes it easy to get caught.

[hollowman]

The files are huge, secured electronically to the playback device, and the digital fingerprinting makes it easy to get caught.

These are obstacles, tho' not impossible ones.
Also, I've seen quite a few "DVDScr" files make it to file-sharing sites lately. Studios tried to dump DVDScr a while back, but actors guild et. al. won the battle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screener

[smrpix]

Pirating a movie that's going to be widely available in high quality in a couple of months has never made sense to me. Obviously there are folks who feel quite differently.

[newpball]

The files are huge, secured electronically to the playback device, and the digital fingerprinting makes it easy to get caught.

These are obstacles, tho' not impossible ones.
Also, I've seen quite a few "DVDScr" files make it to file-sharing sites lately. Studios tried to dump DVDScr a while back, but actors guild et. al. won the battle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screener

Not sure how this is relevant movie theaters obviously do not use DVDScr files.

DVDs are obviously not high quality.

[johns0]

Moved the thread to off topic forum.