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Now available on DVD... Harry Potter!

  • 03-12-2001 5:57pm
    #1
    Bard
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    From http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_441026.html?menu=news.latestheadlines:


    Pirated copies of the Harry Potter film are already on sale

    The Harry Potter film has already been turned into a pirate DVD.

    The film has it's world premiere in London today.

    A computer hacker in Los Angeles claims to have downloaded the film on his home computer.

    According to www.sunday-times.co.uk the hacker, known as Big Steve, then recorded the film on a DVD.

    He claims some of his friends have now passed their copies of the film on to gangs of organised criminals, who sell copies to shoppers in European and Asian street markets.

    A former security adviser to the Motion Picture Association of America says he thinks Harry Potter is already the most pirated unreleased film in history.

    Story filed: 10:38 Sunday 4th November 2001


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  • #2
    sceptre
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    Good story grab Bard

    I'm guessing that he used the Centropy divx telesync - great quality on that one.

    (not worth paying for it though - would you pay good money for an mp3 recorded with a mike and stretched back out to PCM? Thought not. Ditto a divx knocked back out to a DVD - and that's assuming that the Sunday Times aren't getting confused between DVDs and VCDs again)

    There are a few web sellers in Taiwan selling the VCD, no surprise there I suppose


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