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New Harry Potter Film Pirated Online

Posted Jun 4, 2004

As predicted, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was camcorded and leaked online today, moments after the Friday matinees ended on the East coast. The NFO file released by UTi indicates that this may be their last release because of "not so recent but still evident events." (Arrests? Increased security?)

The sample image distributed with the movie pokes fun at Warner Brothers' attempt to thwart piracy by issuing military-style night-vision goggles to theater ushers. I guess it didn't work very well.

June 5, 2004: Here's a 50 second sample (MPG, 8.1 MB) of the bootleg video. As you can see, the video and audio aren't very good, and the aspect ratio is bad.

24 Comments (Add Yours)

Jun 4, 2004
11:36 AM  
jkottke wrote:

According to this Reuters report, there have been a couple of arrests lately.


Jun 4, 2004
11:59 AM  
Andy Baio wrote:

A Los Angeles man was jailed for camcordering The Alamo recently.


Jun 4, 2004
1:37 PM  
mark wrote:

how embarrassing!

thats like getting caught shoplifting a dr. phil book.


Jun 4, 2004
8:03 PM  
Greg wrote:

Obviously you can't give a 13 year old cinema jerk advanced military equipment and expect results. If we weren't so damn busy with the war in Iraq this kind of copyright terrorism could have been avoided.


Jun 6, 2004
11:52 AM  
alex wrote:

Greg you dont know anything about piracy.
Ive seen the release, and I can tell you folks that the aspect ratio is easy to fix, and on a TV the picture is highly watchable.

I enjoyed the movie, and Im gonna download the next releases of it, for free. That includes the DVD, which will be downloadable about 1 month before store date.

Its fun to be a hater.


Jun 7, 2004
3:44 PM  
FJack wrote:

Jack Valenti Should Just Die. o and F the FCC. Thank You, Have a Good Night!!!

FTW


Jun 7, 2004
3:52 PM  
CopyrightInfringers wrote:

above said "sample image" is copyrighted and only to be used in Region 7 Designated ares or if its owner allows you to use it. Thnx


Jun 7, 2004
3:57 PM  
saddam wrote:


I am loving the harry potter sample,it gave me much happiness,thankyou,come again.


Jun 7, 2004
5:33 PM  
lucifer wrote:

heh, there is already a better release out then this one on the web.


Jun 7, 2004
5:34 PM  
lucifer wrote:

and actualy what i forgot to say, by making a webpage of a news type nature talking about a release and the NAME OF THE GROUP THAT RELEASED IT, all you do is bring it more into light of people to search for it, hope you guys are for the cause, haha.


Jun 7, 2004
7:25 PM  
Andy Baio wrote:

Isn't VCDQuality.com the site that's publicizing the release? I'm just linking to them.


Jun 14, 2004
5:56 PM  
dreamss wrote:

update ur crap.. tc came out bad ass quality.. i dont wanna pay 10 times to get to understand the tick accent


Jun 14, 2004
6:23 PM  
dreamss wrote:

Harry.Potter.And.The.Prisoner.Of.Azkaban.TC.DVDR-Replica


Jun 16, 2004
10:05 AM  
ginganinga wrote:

any free haz potter 3 downloads (MOVIES)


Jun 16, 2004
10:39 AM  
Andy Baio wrote:

Sorry, I don't allow links to commercially-available movie downloads on my site. Try Suprnova.com.


Jun 17, 2004
7:09 AM  
mark wrote:

if the dvd's wernt so bloody expensive in the first place maybe it would cut down on piracy after all what does it cost to put a film onto disk less than $2 i myself would pay $10 per dvd but $40 is a bit expensive dont ya think


Jun 17, 2004
12:43 PM  
a free dl wrote:

harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban tc dvdr replica part1 tar
harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban tc dvdr replica part2 tar
harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban tc dvdr replica part3 tar

the full dvd is on the net already as its all over the place and been downloaded 23,000 in 1 day says that the sales will go down before the shops even get it 100% perfect dvd quality


Jun 21, 2004
11:54 AM  
jason wrote:

suprnova.org there is the dvd version of the movie on that site i didnt think it was real but i downloaded it and it works. it is the actually files to the dvd so people can burn dvds its 4.5 gigs but it works i got it in 17 hours


Jun 26, 2004
2:03 AM  
Eoghan wrote:

jason which bit torrent link did you download to get your verison of the dvd quality hp3? Harry.Potter.And.The.Prisoner.Of.Azkaban.TC.DVDR-Replica is that the right one?


Jun 27, 2004
6:34 PM  
Someone wrote:

The Replica release is a PAL DVD-R. Don't plan on burning it and being able to play it in your average DVD player, because it ain't gonna happen.


Jul 11, 2004
4:21 AM  
padrave wrote:

anyone one know where u can get it completely free NO registration fee?


Jul 16, 2004
9:18 AM  
Adriany wrote:

In latin america you can get the bootleg copy, sometimes good quality for $5 bucks.


Jul 24, 2004
2:20 PM  
dude wrote:

how do you decompress the files with the download from suprnova.org ?


Jan 1, 2006
1:23 AM  
PenisMan wrote:

heh, no posts for over a year

i guess everyone can download it in dvd quality... no ones whinging


 

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