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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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!
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.
There’s also ways to obfuscate them.
which is why your yellow ink/toner typically runs out before the other colors
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.
Hmm. That’s a nice piece of info you got there. Thanks.
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.
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–Shannon_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
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.
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.).
Ahhh nice! Familiar with that via aliasing below Nyquist frequency, different words for the same idea.
Edit is incorrect
I would be a bit sceptical
My thoughts exactly, can’t weigh an opinion on the quality unless I see it for myself.
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)
Yes, it’s the same file.
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.
Yeah, it’s a great copy. Still, I’d watch again when BluRay comes out.
I’m more confused by the cam capture listings dated 2025
Probably telecine which is ripped right from the reel.
At 30 fps? If you have that equipment, you should be able to match the frame rate.
On another related note, dude that movie is one of the best I’ve seen in a long time.
That’s true.
