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Think Napster -- only for movies

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/18/ns-15361.html


Fri, 12 May 2000 15:27:23 GMT ZDNN US

Thanks to a new technology called DivX, the Web will soon be awash in illegal -- but perfect -- copies of Hollywood blockbuters

If you think online music-sharing software like Napster and MP3 are causing a fuss, wait about six months. The World War of digital rights is welling up on the Internet. There's a new, easy way for pirates to trade illegally copied movies -- and black market film trading is flourishing. The method means anyone with a broadband connection to the Internet can download literally any movie they're looking for in as little as two hours. It has Hollywood, which is already on its heels in the war against piracy, sticking yet another thumb in the digital rights dam.

Regular consumer wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between a legitimate DVD movie and one compressed using the new scheme, which is called DivX. The movies are full screen, even widescreen, with full fidelity stereo sound.

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