Thursday, May 15, 2003
Posted by Roberto
10:26 PM
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CHECK THIS OUT:
"www.VCDQuality.com will be back shortly.. We're currently experiancing a massive DDoS attack. theres 2 versions of the matrix reloaded out.. The.Matrix.Reloaded.Internal.TS-FTF and Matrix.Reloaded.TS-ESOTERiC.. the FTF one has a brighter picture and a little better sound.. you shouldnt download it tho.. go see this at the movies.. anyway back to tryiung to get this attack filtered.. -X69"
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels and other forums dedicated to movie swapping described a two-CD release of the Warner Bros. film "The Matrix Reloaded" a day before its theatrical opening date.
EXTRACT FROM THE ARTICLE BY JOHN BORLAND (CNET News.com):
Tom Temple, director of worldwide Internet enforcement for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), said he had no information indicating that the movie had been released early online.
"We have seen a lot of files named 'Matrix,'" Temple said. He articulated that the MPAA has not yet seen a file on the Internet that actually is the sequel.
The prerelease online of big-budget movies has become a growing concern for Hollywood studios, even if to date the trend has shown little indication that it's undermining box office revenue. The MPAA, in tandem with the Recording Industry Association of America, has sued file-swapping companies whose software provides potential access to pirated films to millions of people at a time.
In their very early stages of online release, movies are rarely available to the everyday Net dweller as a file on Kazaa or Morpheus, however. Shadowy groups with names such as Esoteric and Centropy have networks of people, often spread across the globe, that participate in gaining access to an early screening of the movie, copying it directly or with a video recorder, processing it, and putting it on private sites.
Over the course of hours or days, these files typically find their way into more public file-swapping networks such as Kazaa.
Most big movies do find their way onto the Net before their theatrical release, or within hours of it. The last "Star Wars" movie trickled into file-swapping circles more than a week before it was scheduled to open in theaters last summer.
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