Okay so for context: I’ve never really downloaded movies right after release, the movies that I’ve downloaded were all released at least few months before the time of download, so I don’t know how movies releases work.
So when a movie is released, how long does it take for there to be a high-quality pirated version of it? I can’t seem to find the movie on an online platform even if I were to pay for it. Are movies exclusive to an actual theater when they first get released? Right now I’m searching for that movie that was just released and all I find is HDCAMs. Does this mean that someone just secretly recorded it in a theater?
Oh btw, the movie I’m talking about is about a scientist that was involved in (at the time) a secret government weapons program during WW2. The movie was released very recently. (Hey, I didn’t mentioned the name of the movie, I hope I’m not breaking the rules 😉)
My rule of thumb is to just wait till the blu-ray is released. Ill either get a remux or a very solid encode. Web-DLs can usually be found earlier than the blu-ray release too (usually like month, or a few weeks, before the BD release). I’m not saying rips or cams cant be “good quality”, but I would rather watch an actual scene release or closer to the quality of a physical counterpart. I’d rather be patient and just wait for better releases.
I totally agree with this approach. Web-DL is good enough for me, but cam is really a non-starter.
If the movie is not available on any physical media or online streaming sources yet, the best you’ll find is what’s known as a cam, which is the dude sitting in the theatre in a hoody recording like you see in the warning of what not to do before the movie starts.
A lot of trackers don’t allow them because the quality is so bad, I see them a lot on TL tho. I think they even have some exclusive releasers.
How do people not get caught recording? Wouldn’t someone sitting near them notice?
Buddy I’m pretty sure people are getting jerked off at the movies, people probably relieved when the person next to them is just recoding with a camera.
If I have to sit still for any amount of time then I’m jerkin’ it
So THAT’S why you’re no longer a bus driver!
On rare occasions a high quality copy gets leaked early. But most of the time, all you’ll get is CAMs until the movie is released on a streaming service, then that will get ripped in full quality. This typically takes around 6 weeks these days. After that you wait another 6+ months for the Bluray release which is higher quality still.
Yep no magic to get movies early anymore, the people who upload them can get them when everyone else can.
Those pre-release DVD Screeners and early regional releases to compete with bootleg market are a thing of the past.
I found that Bluray rips can come earlier than the release date, but I assume that’s because of the time required to get the whole product supply chain up and running. And insiders can a copy of the physical disc early in that process. But for streaming, yeah same time as the rest of us.
