First pirated HD DVD movie hits BitTorrent

The pirates of the world have fired another salvo in their ongoing war with copy protection schemes with the first release of the first full-resolution rip of an HD DVD movie on BitTorrent. The movie, Serenity, was made available as a .EVO file and is playable on most DVD playback software packages such as PowerDVD. The file was encoded in MPEG-4 VC-1 and the resulting file size was a hefty 19.6 GB.

So, basically, all the honest people who purchased legitimate HD-DVD content have to suffer though a bunch of performance debilitating checks and balances in the OS to watch their content on Vista, while the pirates get an unfettered version to watch wherever they want.

And HDCP is good, how?

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