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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    comments for that torrent on ext.to include

    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

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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.

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      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.

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        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!

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    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.

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        I’m currently helping organizing a film festival and it basically works like this. We got hundreds of password protected links to movies for screening, most of them on vimeo. I wouldn’t hand them out though because these are all small productions.