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LeoNatan
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Posted: Thu, 24th Jan 2008 01:46 Post subject: aXXo Promotes the iMac |
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Quote: | The DVD ripper aXXo is without a doubt one of the most popular DVD-rippers. Even though he hasn’t been active since November 2007, his rips are still widely used, even by commercial outlets such as the John Lewis store. They must have thought, “Why use a real DVD if we can use a pirated movie for free?”
The aXXo rip was shown on an iMac displayed on an Apple stand at a John Lewis store. A member of the Hexus forums discovered this remarkable promotional material, and writes:
“So I was in my local John Lewis store a week or so back, and I was checking out their new little Apple mac area, which had lots of Macs on display, with some desks setup and other accessories. They also had some wall mounted iMacs. Imagine my surprise when getting closer to one of them to see ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest’ - ripped by Axxo playing.”
Using a ripped DVD is bit odd because this is certainly not the best promotional material. Regular DVDs or free HD-content looks much better on an iMac monitor.
One thing is clear though, aXXo’s presence has now moved beyond the Internet, and for him it must be flattering to see that commercial outlets appreciate his work. Perhaps this might motivate him to return?
The last official aXXo torrent was uploaded November 11, after that it has been awfully quiet. There were rumors that he got caught, others said he had an accident. However, the official statement is that he decided to take a break.
John Lewis was not available for comment, the MPAA probably wont appreciate it that much, but they have our support.
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Posted: Thu, 24th Jan 2008 02:33 Post subject: |
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I used to use axxo all the time when I used torrents. Didn't he steal his work tho?
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Posted: Thu, 24th Jan 2008 03:44 Post subject: |
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SpykeZ wrote: | I used to use axxo all the time when I used torrents. Didn't he steal his work tho? |
he didn't stole he only re-encoded all movies to a more friendlier AVI format that would all DVD players recognize and all his movies fit nicely on one CD
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LeoNatan
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Posted: Thu, 24th Jan 2008 08:03 Post subject: |
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Yeah, but you forgot to mention that not only did he compress 2:30hrs movies into 700MB files, he used DVDRs (not the original DVDs). 
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Posted: Thu, 24th Jan 2008 15:48 Post subject: |
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LeoNatan wrote: | Yeah, but you forgot to mention that not only did he compress 2:30hrs movies into 700MB files, he used DVDRs (not the original DVDs).  |
so? He never claimed to be a scene member or top shit or anything. His rips were awesome and useful. About 80% of my rips were from axxo.
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LeoNatan
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Posted: Thu, 24th Jan 2008 16:46 Post subject: |
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I don't care if he's scene or not. I'm saying his rips are of shit quality. An encode of an encode. If you feel satisfied with them, then congratulations!
I, on the other hand, prefer quality. 
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Posted: Thu, 24th Jan 2008 17:26 Post subject: |
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LeoNatan wrote: | I don't care if he's scene or not. I'm saying his rips are of shit quality. An encode of an encode. If you feel satisfied with them, then congratulations!
I, on the other hand, prefer quality.  |
his rips were just as good as most of the scene rips that were out at the time before they started released rips on 2 cd's.
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Posted: Thu, 24th Jan 2008 17:39 Post subject: |
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SpykeZ, the scene has always had rips accross 2 cds since the beginning of the DivX days. I remember those days. DivX caused such a stir in the scene, it was an interesting time.
http://www.nfohump.com/nfos/shownfoblack.php?nfoid=13295
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nouseforaname
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LeoNatan
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Posted: Thu, 24th Jan 2008 20:38 Post subject: |
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That, and he hasn't been around for so long.
@Nouse, I think he even did LOTR:ROTK (which is 201min) in 1CD... 
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Posted: Fri, 25th Jan 2008 14:48 Post subject: |
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SpykeZ wrote: | LeoNatan wrote: | I don't care if he's scene or not. I'm saying his rips are of shit quality. An encode of an encode. If you feel satisfied with them, then congratulations!
I, on the other hand, prefer quality.  |
his rips were just as good as most of the scene rips that were out at the time before they started released rips on 2 cd's. |
man, scene rips are usually 2 cd's unless your dling a dvd rip
I remember fuck, 5 years ago I was dling svcd movies which were 2cd's and etc
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Posted: Mon, 4th Feb 2008 16:35 Post subject: |
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SpykeZ wrote: | LeoNatan wrote: | I don't care if he's scene or not. I'm saying his rips are of shit quality. An encode of an encode. If you feel satisfied with them, then congratulations!
I, on the other hand, prefer quality.  |
his rips were just as good as most of the scene rips that were out at the time before they started released rips on 2 cd's. |
Try Mythbusters - Mega Movie Myths, a coloured strand going down the middle of the screen, I would put a screenshot but I deleted it right after downloading it, still have the torrent but gone off aXXo since that and another one was bad.
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