Axxo file format

AVI file. Unlike the dogs bollocks who appears to have about as much intelligence as a twinkie , I understand that you are referring to an AXXO file as one created by AXXO and not necessarily one that bears that file extension.

Unfortunately the world is full of arse-wipes like the person who developed the 3wplayer he probably goes to church on Sundays and the subsequent morons who package up some old movie as a new release and disable it until you download their virus-infested program. Bring one of these low-lifes out into the spotlight and you will find that they are a snivelling little man with a small penis and a lack of social skills whom only their own mothers could love. These are the real losers of this world, my friend, taking their vengeance out on those of us with a life.

It may be reassuring to you to know that even I get caught out by fake movies from time to time, thinking them to be genuine two this week already! I simply delete them. Things to look out for in a genuine axxo release are the spelling of the torrent name separated by dots, not spaces or underscores, and a dash before the lower-case axxo , the two accompanying files an nfo. Read carefully And in doing so, he has left himself open to the inevitable instances of people using his good name as a front for questionable activities.

Ripping a DVD and adding hideously tacky intros to them is, as was said in the day, lame. Can't see a filmmaking renaissance fuelled by ripping DVDs happening anytime soon.

Well, as long as we are making unfounded assumptions, I'm going to choose to believe that aXXo is a six foot tall Valkyrie goddess who, when she is not a model for the newest Victoria's Secret catalog, is fighting crime, or working in dog rescue. Wikipedia gives a couple references to support the assertion that aXXo is a teenager. I'm sure most teenagers into copyright piracy are Valkyrie goddesses. At least, that's what they told me at 4chan.

And the average age at Metafilter is I'm pretty sure that aXXo is an ex-Navy Seal, can bench-press a car, has a black belt in karate and is like a total chick magnet. I may be naive but this makes me want to smile, just like when the funny men in the pub offer me DVD-Rs of Four Christmases or Hancock. I've even mumbled drunkenly 'Not for me thanks but please, please keep undermining their business model'.

As someone whose cultural tastes are esoteric and retro it all amuses me - I know that My Winnipeg or this weekend's BFI Re-release of Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia are unlikely to be imperilled by casual piracy. In fact, I think that the current Hollywood business model of heavily front-loaded financial risks, sequels and general dumbed down audience demeaning drivel could be harmed by aXXo et al. If it starts to cut into revenues they would have to go back to a model of making at lot more product to hit more audiences at lower cost per unit thus lower risk.

The article suggests this is not the case, but I remember reading somewhere that early piracy of Soul Plane cut its box office take hard. Maybe this is baseless, but I can sleep soundly knowing that my favoured cinema culture is safe. If the people that curled out 'Bride Wars' are hurt at all by a humble, nameless Canadian teenager I can but cheer Yes, the scene pretty much wouldn't exist if bragging and one-upmanship didn't exist.

Everything the scene has ever done, from ANSI art, to pirate games, to demos, to DVD rips have always more than anything else been about the drive to be the best. The interesting thing to me is that the scene mentality has done a decent job of keeping it relatively pure.

In areas where money is the driving force, usually one entity buys out everyone else, or drives them all out of business, or forms a oligopoly between the few strongest, all of which lead to less competition and lower quality.

The scene might not be contributing much to society, but the fact that such a complicated and efficient organization of people can come together for nothing more than psychological rewards is an achievement itself.

Sorry, wrong. They can exploit a vulnerability in your AVI playback software and install malware that way. I haven't heard of any such vulns in ffmpeg or mplayer for quite some time. Only if there is one, and if you're that paranoid you shouldn't even be on the internet in the first place because vulnerabilities show up in browsers all the time.

Thanks for the post! It's an interesting article for a mainstream daily newspaper to run. The Scene is an interesting series if somewhat tedious at times, just as I imagine actual ripping to be - the excitement of getting the pre-release DVD-screener! It is intriguing to contemplate a double agent here. BritneySpears Aight.

BritneySpears I slip out of my pants, just for you, aXXo. Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat. BritneySpears Oh, I like to play dress up. Er, no, but they're all available online. Only if there is one, and if you're that paranoid Your original statement that it couldn't contain malware because it wasn't executable was incorrect and has nothing to do with your follow-on comment about paranoia.

Although not "in the wild", ffmpeg had a known buffer overflow only 2 months ago. These things happen and will continue to happen for the foreseeable future. All of that is just a derail, though. I was only trying to correct a fallacious statement regarding the ability of non-executable files to contain malware, which is a concept that leads people into a false sense of confidence.

I've been doing something illegal, but had never heard of aXXo. Am I doing something wrong? Oh, , when hacking software meant something more than removing copy protection. This is not about teaching someone the ways to carjack, this is providing software to download movies before they get to shelves.

There is no breaking into someone else's vehicle, this is joining the queue to download and upload pieces. It is an activity done from home, but with others those peers who share with you. But because western markets don't have the option to purchase DVDs that lack both the image post-processing and special features that are common on retail releases, R5 rips fill that gap. Movie theaters want to stay in business, and see early DVD release dates as competitors, so many big theater chains snubbed Bubble , which had theater, TV, DVD release all in one day previously.

Eideteker, you're doing it wrong. Or, you're doing the wrong illegal thing. The last two paragraphs are meant to imply that Knowles and the guy from DIGG are analogous to aXXo only in that their influence and fame seems to be the result of new opportunities or modes of expression made available by the internet. It does not claim that their respective activities are alike or analogous. That's not such an odd claim to make. And this seems to be a re-occuring problem on MeFi, and it shouldn't be, for a sharp group of people.

Someone states an opinion without qualifiers. An analogy is drawn to show how the statement is not true in all instances. Others pipe up to show how the two things differ, as if this invalidates the argument.

Analogies do not work by being the same in every way. That is not an analogy. Stretching them to the breaking point illustrates nothing useful. In this case, to refute the idea that any sufficiently large number of infractions automatically indicates something wrong with the law, rather than possible and possibly rectifiable problems in enforcement, an analogy can be drawn to other cases where a large number of infractions might occur.

That you want to argue that the nature of the act is different such that one of them should not be illegal, owing to issues of lack of harm, etc.

But frankly, DRM is one of those issues that can't be rationally discussed on Metafilter. My test for that is when rational people advance arguments that they would themselves shoot down as flawed were it not their favoured position.

Everybody knows what an analogy is, and it seems fine to make them in anything but about a dozen particular topics. Also, the claim that Knowles and AICN have the power to make or break a film seems wildly overinflated.

If this was ever true--which I doubt--the site hasn't had that sort of influence for years now. Some of the things I download are things that I simply can not get in Japan.

That entitles me to one game a day, with no control over which game it is. NFL games? Well, there might be, on a cable channel, one live game a week. Other games are tape-delayed, sometimes coming a week later. The existence of an internet based delivery system that could get me HD oh, hell, even SD versions of games on demand, for a sane price, keep me from downloading them illegally. Other areas: if not for bt, I wouldn't have been able to watch the Wire.

The region encoding system has become a barrier that piracy can get you through. Legit access to viable media would, for many people, solve that. Subtitles are another issue. To a large extent, bt is the only way for me, in Japan, to watch Japanese movies, because I'm not fluent in the language. Only Ghibli movies are regularly released with English subs.

Region-free players are out there, but the movie industry claims they're illegal too and shoddy, shoddy quality, usually breaking in a year or so. The one company, in one way, that's gotten things right? I shit you not. The PSP is, and has always been, region free. I play American games on my wife's PSP. My PS3 plays American games, and several titles are fully bilingual. If your system is set to English, the game plays in English. This is a new developement, and while I don't know the real reason, I suspect the rampant mod-chipping of the PS2 had something to do with it.

On the other hand, the Nintendo DS, which started out region free, just took a step back, and the DSi is region locked. Don't buy it. Tell these companies that, given the chance between region locked and region free, there's only one decent choice. Durn: tl;dr - u r rong! I jest. I tried to skim through the discussion, and missed important follow-ups or elaborations, because I wanted to throw something in that was timely. I think this might be the problem with other such occurrences - the desire to get your reply into the fray, when there might have not been a real fray to start.

My apologies. My elaboration was probably just retelling old tales to the same crowd, but it seemed important at the moment. Back to the point of car theft vs. I don't see the parallel as infraction to infraction, but as act of clearly understood law-breaking for personal gains vs. The person downloading a movie isn't going to sell copies on the playground, they're getting a preview. Granted, these are generalizations, which are casting the downloader in more favorable light that might be deserved.

But then I side with the notion that most people will gladly pay for movies at some pricepoint when received at some time. Many prefer movies sooner than later, and for less money than DVDs first cost. Of course, DVDs go on sale after they have had their run in theaters, and DVDs may cost less on the week of first sale, but further decreases in price happen well after initial release.

This BBC story mentions how the bootlegs and torrents are available before street date. To me, this means the street date is wrong - release the DVD sooner, and capture some more sales. Drop the fancy extras an sell the DVD 3 weeks after something hits theaters, and release the full thing a month later. Re: A Thousand Baited Hooks and burnmp3s - the difference now being that there are distinctly different Scenes: the high-end software crackers still need m4d sk1llz to break the dongles and copy-protection on big-time packages probably the same for game crackers , while CD and DVD rippers have all the tools and just need access before someone else.

The skills are who you know, not what you can do. Back when Radium improved the major MP3 codec , those who were impressed were other crackers and people who cared about MP3 quality in the earlier days of MP3 distribution, probably not getting much general internet attention.

These movies are initially distributed via the file sharing protocol BitTorrent. Some people have criticized aXXo for only releasing MB rips, claiming that the quality is inferior to 1. Near the end of December , aXXo temporarily stopped releasing due to a dispute with a site that was using aXXo's name without permission, possibly gaining money from advertising. There are frequently attempts to imitate aXXo's work from groups releasing their own movies using aXXo's name.

Such attempts are usually identifiable by discrepancies between the format of the suspect files and aXXo's consistent release style. Search " aXXo " on any large BitTorrent search engine.