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I downloaded the movie after seeing it in theatre to once again enjoy it from the comfort of my home. Seeing 2160p, I thought it's going to be a webcam rip but the title says webrip. Where is this leaked from that has Dolby Vision on a movie still in theatre?

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its not unheard of for some scene peeps to get access to the raw digital files played in some theaters. It's uncommon because of the difficulty in acquisition and then sanitizing it so they can't figure out who ripped it, but does happen.

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm really curious about the sanitation process. About the methods used to identify each copy, it has to be one of those cases of security by obscurity. I think it is a fascinating topic that I know nothing about.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

IIRC digital cinema files are usually DRM locked in a special format and are also imperceptibly watermarked somewhere throughout the video. They're distributed to cinemas usually on physical hard drives/SSD's. I don't know anything about the security details other than that, off to YouTube it is!

[–] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Xbox apparently used to encode a console's serial number into the loading animation of the Xbox logo in the corner of your screen to figure out who broke NDAs within the company.

[–] Chulk@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Same, it makes me think about Reality Winner being caught because they knew which printer the documents came from.

The pages from the NSA's printers came with invisible tracking dots. This is a common feature in modern printers for forensics investigations

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/reality-winner-nsa-leak-russian-hacking-printer-tracking-dots/

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

which is why your yellow ink/toner typically runs out before the other colors

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

On any color printer there are yellow dots, which have plenty of data.

[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's also ways to obfuscate them.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

Couldn't one just take a B/W photocopy?

[–] kip@piefed.zip 3 points 2 months ago

comments for that torrent on ext.to include

Quality is pretty bad, something off about it does not look right with Russian subs for visual words burned it

Bad quality, not even FHD :(

Not completely clean of burned in Russian subs. Otherwise quality looks good

so good chance you got an ai upscaled russian camrip

[–] Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On another related note, dude that movie is one of the best I've seen in a long time.

[–] hunt4peas@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

That's true.

[–] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably telecine which is ripped right from the reel.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

At 30 fps? If you have that equipment, you should be able to match the frame rate.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

30 FPS would be a cam rip, no?

Just because they put webrip in the title doesn't make it so.

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

if you have a good camera (2x number of pixels, and 2x colordepth than the movie), then you could make a camrip with perfect quality (assuming some calibration frames, and a cinema that gives no fuck). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampling_theorem

though I guess that's still too much effort for most, and most early leaks are digital copies, as the other comments suggest.

edit: newer comments suggest camrip with a bad camera

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Would that be like on a tripod in the audience area recording the screen? Seems lossy somehow so I figure I'm misunderstanding. I'm pretty ignorant (~fully ignorant lol) about this, apologies, ya just piqued my curiosity.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Would that be like on a tripod in the audience area recording the screen?

Fun fact: this is how films get digitized, they play the film in a tiny movie theater just big enough for the camera. The whole apperatus is about the size of a washing machine

[–] quips@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

One of the ways…

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wtf lol, that just seems so...low tech? I certainly can't think of a "better" way to do it, guess I imagined some fully enclosed (or maybe that's what you're describing).

It's like finding out almost all power generation is really just different ways of boiling water lol

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Scanner is technically the same, it just bounces light off the object, rather than shining through it.
Hell 3D scanning is pretty cool and what I'd consider high tech, but it's still just bouncing waves off things and recording those!
I guess there's no escaping the universal fundamentals, or the limits of our technology at least

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Would that be like on a tripod in the audience area recording the screen?

yes.

Seems lossy somehow

it is! but that's where Shannon sampling theorem comes in. The sampling only needs to be twice as good as the source, and then you can reconstruct the source perfectly. (with some assumptions, e.g. correct color gamut, focal point, etc.).

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Ahhh nice! Familiar with that via aliasing below Nyquist frequency, different words for the same idea.

[–] quips@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Edit is incorrect

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Back in the early DVD days the studios would hand out DVD "screener" copies to film critics and magazines for reviews. They were often ripped and passed around when films were still in theatres. Often they had a watermark or subtitles in a different language but were otherwise top quality.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now it doesn’t work like that anymore. They have a site a special code to watch the movie

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

I'm currently helping organizing a film festival and it basically works like this. We got hundreds of password protected links to movies for screening, most of them on vimeo. I wouldn't hand them out though because these are all small productions.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Still happens for some cases like airplane movies. I know I've seen pirated movies that had the airline name pop up for a few seconds.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Surely you can’t be serious‽

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

I am serious. But don't call me Shirley.