Well the complete stupidity last week astonished and disgusted us.
So much so we spent the next two days regretting falling a sleep and not releasing the rest of the episodes.
Now...
- We re-encoded our episode from the highest bitrate source available to us.
We did this as we felt it would look best and we didn't want to download three separate feeds.
It was bad enough downloading one over 10 IP addresses to ensure there was no embedded watermarking/DRM or glitching.
Comparisons showed loss of detail in some frames while others looked a lot better
If you want pure quality grab the 1080p.H264 and quit complaining we aren't downloading three feeds.
If two of them are of subpar bitrate and quality.
- TURBO... Is that really what you call proof? Any idiot could mock up a fake UI like that in VB.
Go join the production team for CSI: Cyber honestly....
- FiHTV you did a pretty good job following our lead...
- Nukenets, yes the feeds are encoded with x264 however what possible way is there to differentiate
between the untouched feeds and re-encodes...
If you don't enforce the tagging of H264 for untouched feeds and X264 for CRF/2Pass 'scene standard' encodes.
Use some common sense next time, yes there's no ruleset but that doesn't mean we have to be idiots
about this whole situation...
- Moving forward, we intend to release this weekly as fast as possible 1080p.H264 comes first
following that 720p.x264 and SD.x264 re-encodes come from that feed.
- We will not be providing proof, this isn't something you buy there's no purchase log we can
screen-grab, there is some trickery with Yahoo's servers and a download of a .mp4 file
Any proof we could provide could be faked by an application that prints out a pre-defined message to stdout
We will not reveal our methods for decrypting the DRM nor will we provide any proof. As any proof we
feel would be acquit enough to prove we aren't using a 'p2p' source.
WILL ALLMOST CERTIANLY jeopardise everybody's ability to download streams off Yahoo and put our group and its members at risk.