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Pirated Movie Release Types
Pirated Movie Release Types
Pirated Movie Release Types
standard and quickly became the most widely used format for the scene. With help from associates who either
worked for a movie theater, movie production company,
or video rental company, groups were supplied with massive amounts of material, and new releases began appearing at a very fast pace. When version 4.0 of DivX was
released, the codec went commercial and the need for
a free codec, Xvid (then called XviD, DivX backwards), was created. Today, Xvid has replaced DivX almost entirely. Although the DivX codec has evolved from
version 4 to 10.6 during this time, it is banned[2] in the
warez scene due to its commercial nature.
'Background'
2 Release formats
In October 1999, DeCSS was released. This program allowed anyone to remove the CSS encryption on a DVD.
Although its authors only intended the software to be used
for playback purposes, it also meant that one could decode the content perfectly for ripping; combined with the
DivX 3.11 Alpha codec released shortly after, the new
codec increased video quality from near VHS to almost
DVD quality when encoding from a DVD source.
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