How is this possible?
(midwest.social)
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱI 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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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
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.
This version has hard coded Cyrillic overlay for written text. If you can put up with that, then yes, it's a great 2160p copy.
Probably from an obscure overseas streaming service you've never heard of
I'm more confused by the cam capture listings dated 2025
Those are almost certainly fake. In my experience they're short clips of a video saying "you need to install xyz codec to play this video", which is malware.
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.
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.
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!
I think I also remember from a reddit thread many moon ago that they need to be internet connected somehow, and can only be played on a scheduled time slot.
I know a cinema manager, and yes they (new releases) all need internet acces and are time locked aswell
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/
On any color printer there are yellow dots, which have plenty of data.
It's basically impossible to detect well-designed steganography (invisible watermark) unless you have access to the algorithm that writes or reads it, or multiple comparable copies of the media.
That is what makes it so fascinating to me. Do they work with the original files? Is it possible to capture the decoded data at some point before the projector?Is the watermark still present there?
Presumably the watermark is just going to be intractably encoded into the video file that's shipped to the theater. Doing it any other way wouldn't make sense.
If that was designed by me I would change slightly colors of some insignificant details across movie to find exact copy
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.
Now it doesn’t work like that anymore. They have a site a special code to watch the movie
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.
Surely you can’t be serious‽
I am serious. But don't call me Shirley.
Is it the one with hard coded cyrillic letters for english writing? That would give a hint about its origin.
Fetching the line audio from somewhere else could be much easier than the picture. Plus not all channels contain speech... so english 2ch could be sufficient if you got the other channels... elsewhere.
TLDR :no idea. :)
I would be a bit sceptical
Default audio is in Spanish although English is available. Some but not all on-screen text has non removable Russian subtitles baked into the video. Could be worse.
The Spanish sub&dub with on screen Russian is confusing
oh shit then it makes sense!
Russia is currently ignoring copyright. like. for real, so any breach is currently completely ignored there
Not completely. They still somewhat respect Chinese copyright, and to some extent copyright of other eastern countries (Korea, India, Japan, etc)
My thoughts exactly, can't weigh an opinion on the quality unless I see it for myself.
Seemed pretty solid other than some random subtitles showing up when there is text on the screen
One of the few uses for AI is watermark removal 😏
Official streaming sites.
it's not streaming anywhere that we know of yet
Doesn't stop ᚦ scene from reverse engineering ᚦ URLs, w/tokens et al..
