Prithviraj wages war against piracy of Urumi
Actor Prithviraj filed a petition with Cochin cyber cell, against the website ashmagic.com which provided facilities to watch the movie 'Urumi' for free. Prithviraj is also one of the producers of the movie 'Urumi', which hit kerala theatres three weeks back.
S.I Francis Perera of Cochin cyber cell, is investigating the case. The website ashmagic.com is owned by John Kodiyan, who works for Oracle in California,US. Its informed that Pritviraj is planning to file a case against him for a compensation of Rs 5 crores.
The website, however has declined the allegations against them saying the videos are hosted by third party websites.
its found that this is typical model in which these kind of websites work. They upload movies to free video sharing sites such as youtube, megaupload etc, and distribute the movie through their website by embedding or linking to the content. These websites makes money through online advertising schemes such as google adsense, and at the same time stay away from problems claiming they are not hosting the content.
Here are some of the websites we have come across,
which are actively promoting piracy and makes money though it.
olangal.com ( not accessible from India)
moovyshoovy.com/malayalam_movie_list.php
malayalampadam.com
vinodasala.com
focuskeralam.com
Malayalam actor Prithviraj is very upset with the piracy of his recently released movie Urumi, which was released on Internet by a US-based website for download. The Mallu star has now waged a war against film piracy, by registering a complaint with the Cyber Cell. He has requested the Cell to crack down the culprits.
Malayalam movie Urumi is a multilingual movie, which is made with a whopping amount of 20 crores. Besides playing the lead role, Prithviraj is also one among the producers of the film. It has got lot of demand in the market, but he fears that the free downloading of the movie would affect its collection at the Box Office.
Another big reason that bothers Prithvi the most, is that he has planned to release Urumi in several countries, where people are eagerly waiting for the movie to hit the theatres in their countries. Especially in UAE, it is expected to get huge market. Prithvi thinks that curious fans may resort to downloading of pirated version of Urumi online, which is sure to affect its collection.
However, Urumi is a historical drama, which features Prithviraj, Prabhudeva, Genelia D'Souza and Vidya Balan in the leads. Besides getting rave reviews from critics, the film has also been liked by movie buffs in Kerala. Now, the word of mouth is driving the viewers to the theatres.
Friday 22 April 2011
uTorrent 3.0 Adds Ratings, Comments and Streaming
The uTorrent development team officially released the long-awaited version 3.0 Beta of their popular BitTorrent client today. In what can be described as the most significant iteration ever released, uTorrent 3.0 introduces torrent ratings, comments, streaming and various other new features. With this release uTorrent hopes to appeal both to novices and long time BitTorrent users.
utorrentuTorrent for Windows saw its first public release in September 2005 and soon became the most widely used BitTorrent application. Today close to 100 million users worldwide use the client regularly and this number continues to rise.
Today, the beta of uTorrent 3.0 was officially released. This version introduces a wide range of new features and improvements that have been extensively tested over the last months. uTorrent parent company BitTorrent Inc. hopes that through these additions their flagship client will appeal to an even larger audience.
One of the most anticipated new features is the option to rate and comment on torrent files added to uTorrent. Many users have asked for a commenting feature in the past making it the 4th most-requested function in the uTorrent “Idea Bank“. Although some fear that it will bloat the application and open the door for spammers, the majority see the addition of comments as a useful feature.
Aside from adding the option to comment on downloaded torrents, users of uTorrent 3.0 can also rate torrent files by awarding them one to five stars. Together, the comments and star ratings are supposed to give downloaders information on the quality of the various files they’re downloading.
uTorrent 3.0 Comments and Ratings
utorrent comments ratings
Another feature new to uTorrent 3.0 is the option to stream video before the download finishes. A streaming feature was already introduced in some experimental uTorrent releases and will now be added to the core uTorrent functionality. Streaming can be used to preview video files or to watch while downloading.
Aside from the above features uTorrent 3.0 also has an updated look. The user interface has been revamped and a “simplified view” added, allowing users to minimize parts of the uTorrent interface to focus attention on the most essential client features. This should make uTorrent less ‘overwhelming’ to novices, who now often drop out because it looks too complex.
One of the features implemented to keep novices on board are the “getting started” guides that now have a prominent placement in the client. Here, newcomers can find a beginner’s guide, tutorial videos and other tips and tricks to master BitTorrent quickly.
drop to sendCreating and sharing torrents has never been easier before with uTorrent either. Users will notice a “drop files to send” area in the bottom left-hand corner where they can drop files into. uTorrent will then automatically create the torrent and start seeding.
Users can then get a link to share the torrent with their friends directly. Friends who don’t have uTorrent installed yet get the option to download the torrent bundled with a copy of uTorrent.
For BitTorrent savvy users the new uTorrent also has plenty of new features in store. Aside from comments and ratings, uTorrent 3.0 also adds remote access to the core functionality. This means that people can securely control their torrents from smartphones and other devices. In addition, uTorrent now has a portable mode so users can carry it conveniently on a USB-stick.
“Our design goal is to simplify the way people interact with uTorrent while continuing to offer and expand features and expert capabilities,” BitTorrent’s VP of Product Management Simon Morris told TorrentFreak. “This will likely broaden the appeal for many users while maintaining the technical capabilities popular with power users.”
“From a functionality perspective, we’re taking two approaches. First, embed high-demand features like streaming, ratings and remote access that are valuable to many users. Second, creating the ability for people to add-on features via the Apps platform,” Morris added.
In the coming months uTorrent will continue to expand its features and capabilities, TorrentFreak was told.
“We have an active roadmap for uTorrent for 2011, and the company. We see uTorrent as offering an ideal file sharing experience with deep insight into the background data. Ideally, such a client would enable someone to find, get, play, send, and shift large files over the Internet,” he said.
“In particular, major initiatives are underway focused on sending or synching of large files, and introducing support for live streaming,” Morris added.
A full overview of all the new features in uTorrent 3.0 and the latest beta are available on the uTorrent website. Have you tried it? Please let us know what you think below.
utorrentuTorrent for Windows saw its first public release in September 2005 and soon became the most widely used BitTorrent application. Today close to 100 million users worldwide use the client regularly and this number continues to rise.
Today, the beta of uTorrent 3.0 was officially released. This version introduces a wide range of new features and improvements that have been extensively tested over the last months. uTorrent parent company BitTorrent Inc. hopes that through these additions their flagship client will appeal to an even larger audience.
One of the most anticipated new features is the option to rate and comment on torrent files added to uTorrent. Many users have asked for a commenting feature in the past making it the 4th most-requested function in the uTorrent “Idea Bank“. Although some fear that it will bloat the application and open the door for spammers, the majority see the addition of comments as a useful feature.
Aside from adding the option to comment on downloaded torrents, users of uTorrent 3.0 can also rate torrent files by awarding them one to five stars. Together, the comments and star ratings are supposed to give downloaders information on the quality of the various files they’re downloading.
uTorrent 3.0 Comments and Ratings
utorrent comments ratings
Another feature new to uTorrent 3.0 is the option to stream video before the download finishes. A streaming feature was already introduced in some experimental uTorrent releases and will now be added to the core uTorrent functionality. Streaming can be used to preview video files or to watch while downloading.
Aside from the above features uTorrent 3.0 also has an updated look. The user interface has been revamped and a “simplified view” added, allowing users to minimize parts of the uTorrent interface to focus attention on the most essential client features. This should make uTorrent less ‘overwhelming’ to novices, who now often drop out because it looks too complex.
One of the features implemented to keep novices on board are the “getting started” guides that now have a prominent placement in the client. Here, newcomers can find a beginner’s guide, tutorial videos and other tips and tricks to master BitTorrent quickly.
drop to sendCreating and sharing torrents has never been easier before with uTorrent either. Users will notice a “drop files to send” area in the bottom left-hand corner where they can drop files into. uTorrent will then automatically create the torrent and start seeding.
Users can then get a link to share the torrent with their friends directly. Friends who don’t have uTorrent installed yet get the option to download the torrent bundled with a copy of uTorrent.
For BitTorrent savvy users the new uTorrent also has plenty of new features in store. Aside from comments and ratings, uTorrent 3.0 also adds remote access to the core functionality. This means that people can securely control their torrents from smartphones and other devices. In addition, uTorrent now has a portable mode so users can carry it conveniently on a USB-stick.
“Our design goal is to simplify the way people interact with uTorrent while continuing to offer and expand features and expert capabilities,” BitTorrent’s VP of Product Management Simon Morris told TorrentFreak. “This will likely broaden the appeal for many users while maintaining the technical capabilities popular with power users.”
“From a functionality perspective, we’re taking two approaches. First, embed high-demand features like streaming, ratings and remote access that are valuable to many users. Second, creating the ability for people to add-on features via the Apps platform,” Morris added.
In the coming months uTorrent will continue to expand its features and capabilities, TorrentFreak was told.
“We have an active roadmap for uTorrent for 2011, and the company. We see uTorrent as offering an ideal file sharing experience with deep insight into the background data. Ideally, such a client would enable someone to find, get, play, send, and shift large files over the Internet,” he said.
“In particular, major initiatives are underway focused on sending or synching of large files, and introducing support for live streaming,” Morris added.
A full overview of all the new features in uTorrent 3.0 and the latest beta are available on the uTorrent website. Have you tried it? Please let us know what you think below.
Proposal Coming That browsers Should Block Users From BitTorrent Sites
As the United States heads off firmly down the domain seizures route, other countries around the world are also considering how best to deal with the issue of online piracy. Blocking sites via the web’s DNS system has been high on the agenda but doubts exist over its effectiveness. A suggestion coming out of Europe this week would mean that malware filtering in web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome would do the dirty work.
For years the entertainment industries’ have been attacking services that provide access to illicit content, such as Napster, Kazaa, LimeWire or any one of the now-defunct BitTorrent trackers. These efforts have run in parallel with trying to scare users away from such sites.
In recent times, however, it has become increasingly clear that these strategies aren’t working. Suing Internet users proved both ineffective and counter-productive and sites like The Pirate Bay, isoHunt and Newzbin simply refuse to give in, despite the studios throwing millions of dollars away trying to destroy them.
So, if sites are to remain online and users refuse to stop accessing them, it’s time for a new plan – get in the middle of sites and their users and physically stop them from communicating with each other.
In the UK, while the faltering Digital Economy Act stumbles around in its own mess, discussions behind the scenes are focused on the entertainment companies and ISPs formulating a voluntary code to have domain names conveniently blocked.
UK communications watchdog Ofcom is currently considering whether or not website blocking is actually feasible, but other countries who already have experience of such measures have decided that it probably isn’t. One of those is Denmark, a country already subjected to court-ordered ISP DNS blocks of both The Pirate Bay and Russian MP3 vendor, AllofMP3.com, various foreign gambling sites and illicit pharmaceutical vendors.
This week, an MPs consultation on blocking sites has been underway in Denmark. There was a broad consensus that DNS blocking is easily circumvented and is therefore not a viable solution to the problem. So where is there left to go?
During the consultation, Niels Elgaard Larsen, Chairman of the IT-Political Association, suggested an alternative – enhanced browser malware filtering.
“We know of course that when Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome visits a page with a virus, we get a warning that there is virus on the site. This is not filtered by the network, but by browser vendors who maintain lists of viral sites, which then sit in the browser,” Larsen subsequently told Computerworld.
“One must of course be critical of suppliers’ blacklists, but it is much smarter that users have a list of banned sites in their browsers because the approach both warns users and respects their privacy,” he added.
Who has the authority to place domains on such a list is a whole new can of problematic worms, but the idea has received cross-party support with Liberal IT spokesman Michael Aastrup-Jensen suggesting that the issue should be raised at the EU level. To have the required effect, he added, agreement and support must be sought from, among others, the United States.
Of course, the United States has its own take on the issue. Rather than blocking domain names it has simply been seizing them, but even that hasn’t had the required effect.
It’s not inconceivable, however, if one looks far enough down the road and amalgamates the UK, Danish and US approaches (voluntary blocking, court-ordered DNS blocks, enhanced ‘malware’ type web browser blocks and domain seizures) it could become quite difficult to access many piracy-related domains.
But this statement is only true for the layman and no matter what route is taken, ways around these blocks will be found by the tech-savvy. Indeed, it’s an absolute certainty that new products and services will appear immediately to circumvent all of these measures.
So as they look to their ideal future of an Internet filtered in their favor, the entertainment industries will find their magic numbers when taking the numbers of subscribers who can’t understand or be bothered learning how to get around blocks, and adding up how many of those will head off to authorized media sources instead. Will it be worth all the effort?
For years the entertainment industries’ have been attacking services that provide access to illicit content, such as Napster, Kazaa, LimeWire or any one of the now-defunct BitTorrent trackers. These efforts have run in parallel with trying to scare users away from such sites.
In recent times, however, it has become increasingly clear that these strategies aren’t working. Suing Internet users proved both ineffective and counter-productive and sites like The Pirate Bay, isoHunt and Newzbin simply refuse to give in, despite the studios throwing millions of dollars away trying to destroy them.
So, if sites are to remain online and users refuse to stop accessing them, it’s time for a new plan – get in the middle of sites and their users and physically stop them from communicating with each other.
In the UK, while the faltering Digital Economy Act stumbles around in its own mess, discussions behind the scenes are focused on the entertainment companies and ISPs formulating a voluntary code to have domain names conveniently blocked.
UK communications watchdog Ofcom is currently considering whether or not website blocking is actually feasible, but other countries who already have experience of such measures have decided that it probably isn’t. One of those is Denmark, a country already subjected to court-ordered ISP DNS blocks of both The Pirate Bay and Russian MP3 vendor, AllofMP3.com, various foreign gambling sites and illicit pharmaceutical vendors.
This week, an MPs consultation on blocking sites has been underway in Denmark. There was a broad consensus that DNS blocking is easily circumvented and is therefore not a viable solution to the problem. So where is there left to go?
During the consultation, Niels Elgaard Larsen, Chairman of the IT-Political Association, suggested an alternative – enhanced browser malware filtering.
“We know of course that when Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome visits a page with a virus, we get a warning that there is virus on the site. This is not filtered by the network, but by browser vendors who maintain lists of viral sites, which then sit in the browser,” Larsen subsequently told Computerworld.
“One must of course be critical of suppliers’ blacklists, but it is much smarter that users have a list of banned sites in their browsers because the approach both warns users and respects their privacy,” he added.
Who has the authority to place domains on such a list is a whole new can of problematic worms, but the idea has received cross-party support with Liberal IT spokesman Michael Aastrup-Jensen suggesting that the issue should be raised at the EU level. To have the required effect, he added, agreement and support must be sought from, among others, the United States.
Of course, the United States has its own take on the issue. Rather than blocking domain names it has simply been seizing them, but even that hasn’t had the required effect.
It’s not inconceivable, however, if one looks far enough down the road and amalgamates the UK, Danish and US approaches (voluntary blocking, court-ordered DNS blocks, enhanced ‘malware’ type web browser blocks and domain seizures) it could become quite difficult to access many piracy-related domains.
But this statement is only true for the layman and no matter what route is taken, ways around these blocks will be found by the tech-savvy. Indeed, it’s an absolute certainty that new products and services will appear immediately to circumvent all of these measures.
So as they look to their ideal future of an Internet filtered in their favor, the entertainment industries will find their magic numbers when taking the numbers of subscribers who can’t understand or be bothered learning how to get around blocks, and adding up how many of those will head off to authorized media sources instead. Will it be worth all the effort?
Tuesday 19 April 2011
malayalam torrent release groups
XMS
XTREME MOVIE SIZZLERS
XMS IS THE OFFICIAL RELEASER IN MALLUPORTAL.COM
XM3
XTREME MALLU ENTERTAINERS
SS3
SHARE STREAM ENTERTAINMENT
DmE
DIGITAL MALLU ENTERTAINERS
DME IS THE OFFICIAL RELEASER IN MALLUTRIBES.COM
TEAM360
TEAM360 IS THE OFFICIAL RELEASER IN KERALAM360.COM
TEAM KTD
TEAM STAR
TEAM GALAXY
Team RMR
ROYAL MALLU RELEASERS
Team RMR is the official releaser in KALIMUTTAM
THERE ARE MANY INDIVIDUAL UPLOADERS IN ALL SITES
i will be updating about more release groups as soon as i get reports about them
Desi Release Groups
- IcTv - Pre-DVDs, DVD-9s, DVD Rips and few other type of releases. Very fast at new releases, and is exclusive to ICTorrent.com.
- xDR - All Rounder. The fastest Bollywood music releaser on the planet, one of the fastest movie releasers, very professional, great quality rips. xDR is the official releaser for DcT. Does 1 CD, 1/2 Upscaled, 1/3 DVD and M/CCE releases. "All Rounder" or "allrounder" refers to Desi P2P groups that release just about everything.
- MDR & UDR - both good upcoming teams and allrounders as well.
- DDR - All Rounder - fast with the DVD9’s.
- cF (canuckarfan) - Mostly movies, but release only few torrents in a year.
- TmG - a good quality dvd ripping team.
- DUS - Mainly Cover Movies and Music Videos.
- CRG - Cam Rips, PDVDs, PDVD Rips and Music Videos.
- DRs (real one with Farooqbhai, the group founder) - Quality DVD Rips.
GROUPS RELEASING IN EXDESI
[Team ExD] | [ExDTv] | [ExD$r] | [DDR] | [DUS] | [TDT] | [DrC] | [HDDRR] | [SDR] | [XMR] | [DaR] | [XKS] | [XiR] | [XddT] | [TDdB]
PS : IF YOU WANT ME ADD ANY OTHER GROUP PLEASE REPLY BELOW WITHE INFO ABOUT THE GROUP ..
desi torrent sites history
By now, just about everyone has heard about Bollywood - India’s equivalent to Hollywood. India’s thriving film industry is not only an integral part of their culture; but in fact, a way of life - their joie de vive. Truth be told, Bollywood is actually a subset of the entire Desi movie scene. "Desi" roughly translates to ‘of the homeland’ or ‘from the country’. Tollywood is another facet of India’s film industry, while lesser-known, pertains to films of Telugu origin in contrast to Bollywood which refers to Hindi-language films. Even American production companies Warner, Sony Pictures and Columbia have waded into the Bollywood scene.
The critically acclaimed 10-time Oscar-nominated film Slumdog Millionaire has indeed thrust Bollywood into the world’s limelight, once and for all. However, Slumdog isn’t really a Bollywood movie at all: but a Western flick that embraced a popular Bollywood cast and crew. While Slumdog has enjoyed widespread international success in terms of box-office take (mostly post-nomination), it has slumped in India since its exceptionally late theatrical début on January 22nd - which is more than one full month after it was leaked to the P2P/BitTorrent level on Christmas Eve, 2008. Which brings us full circle to the Desi P2P scene.
Perhaps Slumdog is an exaggerated (or even poor) example for what we’re getting at - but the truth is, most Desi/Bollywood films make it to P2P - or more precisely to Desi Trackers - either the same day of a theatrical release or the day after. Pre-times need not bother exist; most major films hit private Desi trackers within 24 hours as a high-qualityPDVD (pre-DVD), DVDR or some other form of release. It’s a wonder why anyone would visit India’s theatres nowadays, since nearly every movie release is available almost instantaneously at the P2P level. Well, many don’t.
The Desi P2P Scene: About The Movie Releases
The "Desi Movie Scene" shouldn’t be confused with the "Desi P2P Scene". While movies/films are likely the most popular release for Desi trackers, the P2P scene also consists of music, TV, stageshow and even religious releases. In Desi P2P, movies are divided into following main categories: CAMs, PDVDs, Untouched DVD9/DVD5, DVD Rips and Encoded/Transcoded/Shrunken DVD5.
The inner workings (politics) of the process in which a movie makes it from a theatrical showing to the P2P level is entirely different than how it’s done in the Western world. In Hollywood, there are many avenues for how a movie can end up on P2P: CAMs (whereby someone records the movie from the audience); TC’s and TS’s; Screeners (where Academy members are given a copy of the film sometimes months prior to a theatre date), and direct DVDRips. In India, screeners are still given out, but not more than one week before it hits theatres (and usually just a few days before). Unlike here, it is somewhat rare to find a Desi film on P2P before a scheduled theatrical release date, although it does occur (but only perhaps 1 or 2 days before, not weeks in advance).
CAMs:
While CAM releases are generally frowned upon in the Western world, and have a very limited appeal due to the poor release quality - this is not necessarily the case in India. In Desi, CAMs can be broken down into two subsets: There are normal CAMs similar to ours, in which a movie is filmed from the seats during a showing, usually with a full audience. For these, the quality is poor, there’s background noise and other undesirables that you would normally find in a Western CAM. But the other type of CAMs are of much higher quality. These are filmed by HD video cameras in 720p (or in HQ) when the theatre is empty - usually the night before a theatrical release date. Perhaps HQ CAM is a bit of a misnomer here, since technically they’re actually TeleSyncs - with a direct "line" audio source. Often these are upconverted to DVD format, and packaged as PDVDs or PDVD-5s. The image below shows an actual screenshot from a CAM release:
PDVDs:
PDVDs (or Pre-Release DVDs) are the most popular format to find new (unreleased) DVD movies on P2P. The sources for which PDVDs are made usually consists of HQ CAMs and Screeners. PDVDs have their own subsets, as well. These can be broken down further into the larger PDVD5 format, and smaller Pre DVD Rips (very popular). For Pre DVD Rips, it’s quite common to find many different formats for the same movie (either from different P2P groups, different sizes - 1CD 700 MB and shrunken 400 MB+, audio options - AC3, subtitle options, NTSC/PAL etc). An example of this can be found at BwTorrents, which has more than 10 different pre releases for the film "Luck By Chance". From these options, the most popular pre-releases are the 1CD 700 MB rip (XviD) format.
PDVD Piracy: Aside from PDVDs being readily available on Desi torrent trackers and P2P, PDVDs also have a huge black market trade in the real-world. Perhaps known better by the term ‘Asian Silvers’, these can also be Telesyncs & screeners (usually leaked from screener reels directly from India’s own movie studios themselves), then encoded/authored onto PDVDs and bootlegged to Europe (mainly Germany, France, etc), Asia, and eventually in the Americas. PDVDs are not retail sources.
Not all movies are immediately available as PDVDs, so a normal CAM is the only option until a DVD is officially released to the public at the retail level. One Indian movie production company - YRF - who manages to put out just 5 movies a year (but they tend to enjoy huge boxoffice successes). YRF movies never become PDVDs, since they keep a tight reign on their screener reels, combined with other security measures. Their film "Dostana" which was released on November 14th, 2008 is a perfect example of this - it existed for months only as a CAM release (and only recently became a DVDRip), something of which is relatively rare in the Desi P2P scene.Smallbudget movies usually take a little more time to make it as a PDVD, due to their limited release.
Untouched DVDR5 / DVDR9:
Just as the title suggests, these are original retail DVDR-5 and DVDR-9 formats.
Shrunken Rips/DVD5s & Encodes/Transcodes:
Most major Indian ISPs impose DL limitations, unless one opts for a more expensive unlimited plan - although the majority of Internet users have a 2 AM to 8 AM "free" time for unlimited usage, which isn’t counted towards the cap. For this, Shrunken DVDRips and pre-releases are gaining popularity (since typically these are between 400 - 450 MB, considerably smaller than 1CD 700 MB sizes).
Encodes and Transcodes come in a multitude of formats, such as M/CCE (manual Cinema Craft Encoder), HCenc (HC Encoder), ProCoder, etc.
DVD Rips:
In the West, movies usually take anywhere between 2 and 8 months to arrive in video stores, or at the retail level. The same can be said for India, except the time spread is usually 2 - 3 months. By far, DVDRips are the most popular movie format in India, and the rest of the world.
Origins of the Desi P2P Scene
DesiTorrents.com was the pioneering Desi torrent tracker, which emerged when torrents started back in the day; their roots lay in hubs and IRC clans. Founders of DcT (DcTorrent) & BwT (BwTorrents) were all ’spinoff’ sites from the original DT, and most Desi trackers directly or indirectly came from DesiTorrents roots. The one exception to this is the newly-formed (and very promising) ICTorrent.com, who has no connections to other trackers.
BwTorrents was started by ex-DesiTorrents staff back in 2004. BwT’s original owner ran it for almost 2 years along with the present DcTowners/admins, then he went inactive due to real life, trusting the presentBwT owner with the domain name & renewal. When he decided to come back to BwT, it would appear he wasn’t wanted there anymore (to put it mildly). After some controversy, he then left with some of his loyalists, and DcT was born. About the same time, iDesiR.com emerged on the scene. One of their "main guys" left and teamed up with the original owner of BwT to form DcT 3 years ago.
Desi Release Groups
Scene Groups / P2P Groups: There isn’t much of an official "scene" for Desi releases. There are very few "scene release" groups, no preDB (IRC) or dupecheck sites, and releasing standards that the Western scene abides by doesn’t exist for Desi releasers. The Desi P2P scene mostly consists of various (and numerous) "P2P groups". No scene rules are applied here; altough there are still a handful of scene groups for Bollywood - D3SI, BrG, sn0b, ADNT and a few others. This is not to say that the Desi P2P scene is disorganized - quite the contrary - but the system in which (movie) releases make it to the P2P level is entirely different. But mainly it’s dominated by P2P groups/Desi Releasers.
In short, Desi release groups are loyal to a certain tracker/forum. DcT, ICT and BwT each have their own ‘groups’ who exclusively put out releases only for that site. This is not to say that these releases remain there solely. An example of this is IcTv - a Desi releaser exclusive to ICTorrent. A quick check on BwTorrents and iDesiR reveal a multitude of IcTv’s releases. This is not a theft - actually IcTv releases first to ICT, and then proceeds to release the same thing to other Desi trackers afterward (many groups do this, others do not). If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then at least ICT had the release first, and thus the fastest. Here’s a list of the major Desi P2P Groups:
TV Release groups: On Desi P2P, there are only 2 teams which are worthy enough… Desi9 and BwTv. Both are run by experienced oldies, but Desi9 has the advantage over BwTv in both number of releases and quality wise - Desi9 covers a much wider variety of shows than BwTv and also it does custom DVDR’s which are extremely difficult to do.
TV Watermarking: Both Desi9 and BwTv ‘watermark’ their TV releases. This is to prevent other Desi trackers from hosting their content. There’s an unwritten (but golden) rule among Desi trackers: if a release has any form of advertising or self-promotion for another tracker/Desi Board, then it is not allowed. This goes for MP3 tags in Desi music releases, as well.
An Anonymous Opinion…
I debated publishing this part of the article, but hell - what’s a little controversy? FileShareFreak spoke with an ‘old Desi scener’ who wishes to remain anonymous. But here’s his take on the Desi scene, and where it’s headed. We left this as-is.
Desi Trackers & Pay-2-Leech (P2L)
When money and private trackers are mentioned in the same sentence, it usually ruffles a few feathers. Without question, there’s no finer example of P2L than as found on Desi trackers. But, hey - at least they’re up front about it. Unless you can somehow find an invite, you’ll be stuck paying to get in to these sites which charge money to access or register:
The critically acclaimed 10-time Oscar-nominated film Slumdog Millionaire has indeed thrust Bollywood into the world’s limelight, once and for all. However, Slumdog isn’t really a Bollywood movie at all: but a Western flick that embraced a popular Bollywood cast and crew. While Slumdog has enjoyed widespread international success in terms of box-office take (mostly post-nomination), it has slumped in India since its exceptionally late theatrical début on January 22nd - which is more than one full month after it was leaked to the P2P/BitTorrent level on Christmas Eve, 2008. Which brings us full circle to the Desi P2P scene.
Perhaps Slumdog is an exaggerated (or even poor) example for what we’re getting at - but the truth is, most Desi/Bollywood films make it to P2P - or more precisely to Desi Trackers - either the same day of a theatrical release or the day after. Pre-times need not bother exist; most major films hit private Desi trackers within 24 hours as a high-qualityPDVD (pre-DVD), DVDR or some other form of release. It’s a wonder why anyone would visit India’s theatres nowadays, since nearly every movie release is available almost instantaneously at the P2P level. Well, many don’t.
The Desi P2P Scene: About The Movie Releases
The "Desi Movie Scene" shouldn’t be confused with the "Desi P2P Scene". While movies/films are likely the most popular release for Desi trackers, the P2P scene also consists of music, TV, stageshow and even religious releases. In Desi P2P, movies are divided into following main categories: CAMs, PDVDs, Untouched DVD9/DVD5, DVD Rips and Encoded/Transcoded/Shrunken DVD5.
The inner workings (politics) of the process in which a movie makes it from a theatrical showing to the P2P level is entirely different than how it’s done in the Western world. In Hollywood, there are many avenues for how a movie can end up on P2P: CAMs (whereby someone records the movie from the audience); TC’s and TS’s; Screeners (where Academy members are given a copy of the film sometimes months prior to a theatre date), and direct DVDRips. In India, screeners are still given out, but not more than one week before it hits theatres (and usually just a few days before). Unlike here, it is somewhat rare to find a Desi film on P2P before a scheduled theatrical release date, although it does occur (but only perhaps 1 or 2 days before, not weeks in advance).
CAMs:
While CAM releases are generally frowned upon in the Western world, and have a very limited appeal due to the poor release quality - this is not necessarily the case in India. In Desi, CAMs can be broken down into two subsets: There are normal CAMs similar to ours, in which a movie is filmed from the seats during a showing, usually with a full audience. For these, the quality is poor, there’s background noise and other undesirables that you would normally find in a Western CAM. But the other type of CAMs are of much higher quality. These are filmed by HD video cameras in 720p (or in HQ) when the theatre is empty - usually the night before a theatrical release date. Perhaps HQ CAM is a bit of a misnomer here, since technically they’re actually TeleSyncs - with a direct "line" audio source. Often these are upconverted to DVD format, and packaged as PDVDs or PDVD-5s. The image below shows an actual screenshot from a CAM release:
PDVDs:
PDVDs (or Pre-Release DVDs) are the most popular format to find new (unreleased) DVD movies on P2P. The sources for which PDVDs are made usually consists of HQ CAMs and Screeners. PDVDs have their own subsets, as well. These can be broken down further into the larger PDVD5 format, and smaller Pre DVD Rips (very popular). For Pre DVD Rips, it’s quite common to find many different formats for the same movie (either from different P2P groups, different sizes - 1CD 700 MB and shrunken 400 MB+, audio options - AC3, subtitle options, NTSC/PAL etc). An example of this can be found at BwTorrents, which has more than 10 different pre releases for the film "Luck By Chance". From these options, the most popular pre-releases are the 1CD 700 MB rip (XviD) format.
PDVD Piracy: Aside from PDVDs being readily available on Desi torrent trackers and P2P, PDVDs also have a huge black market trade in the real-world. Perhaps known better by the term ‘Asian Silvers’, these can also be Telesyncs & screeners (usually leaked from screener reels directly from India’s own movie studios themselves), then encoded/authored onto PDVDs and bootlegged to Europe (mainly Germany, France, etc), Asia, and eventually in the Americas. PDVDs are not retail sources.
Not all movies are immediately available as PDVDs, so a normal CAM is the only option until a DVD is officially released to the public at the retail level. One Indian movie production company - YRF - who manages to put out just 5 movies a year (but they tend to enjoy huge boxoffice successes). YRF movies never become PDVDs, since they keep a tight reign on their screener reels, combined with other security measures. Their film "Dostana" which was released on November 14th, 2008 is a perfect example of this - it existed for months only as a CAM release (and only recently became a DVDRip), something of which is relatively rare in the Desi P2P scene.Smallbudget movies usually take a little more time to make it as a PDVD, due to their limited release.
Untouched DVDR5 / DVDR9:
Just as the title suggests, these are original retail DVDR-5 and DVDR-9 formats.
Shrunken Rips/DVD5s & Encodes/Transcodes:
Most major Indian ISPs impose DL limitations, unless one opts for a more expensive unlimited plan - although the majority of Internet users have a 2 AM to 8 AM "free" time for unlimited usage, which isn’t counted towards the cap. For this, Shrunken DVDRips and pre-releases are gaining popularity (since typically these are between 400 - 450 MB, considerably smaller than 1CD 700 MB sizes).
Encodes and Transcodes come in a multitude of formats, such as M/CCE (manual Cinema Craft Encoder), HCenc (HC Encoder), ProCoder, etc.
DVD Rips:
In the West, movies usually take anywhere between 2 and 8 months to arrive in video stores, or at the retail level. The same can be said for India, except the time spread is usually 2 - 3 months. By far, DVDRips are the most popular movie format in India, and the rest of the world.
Origins of the Desi P2P Scene
DesiTorrents.com was the pioneering Desi torrent tracker, which emerged when torrents started back in the day; their roots lay in hubs and IRC clans. Founders of DcT (DcTorrent) & BwT (BwTorrents) were all ’spinoff’ sites from the original DT, and most Desi trackers directly or indirectly came from DesiTorrents roots. The one exception to this is the newly-formed (and very promising) ICTorrent.com, who has no connections to other trackers.
BwTorrents was started by ex-DesiTorrents staff back in 2004. BwT’s original owner ran it for almost 2 years along with the present DcTowners/admins, then he went inactive due to real life, trusting the presentBwT owner with the domain name & renewal. When he decided to come back to BwT, it would appear he wasn’t wanted there anymore (to put it mildly). After some controversy, he then left with some of his loyalists, and DcT was born. About the same time, iDesiR.com emerged on the scene. One of their "main guys" left and teamed up with the original owner of BwT to form DcT 3 years ago.
Desi Release Groups
Scene Groups / P2P Groups: There isn’t much of an official "scene" for Desi releases. There are very few "scene release" groups, no preDB (IRC) or dupecheck sites, and releasing standards that the Western scene abides by doesn’t exist for Desi releasers. The Desi P2P scene mostly consists of various (and numerous) "P2P groups". No scene rules are applied here; altough there are still a handful of scene groups for Bollywood - D3SI, BrG, sn0b, ADNT and a few others. This is not to say that the Desi P2P scene is disorganized - quite the contrary - but the system in which (movie) releases make it to the P2P level is entirely different. But mainly it’s dominated by P2P groups/Desi Releasers.
In short, Desi release groups are loyal to a certain tracker/forum. DcT, ICT and BwT each have their own ‘groups’ who exclusively put out releases only for that site. This is not to say that these releases remain there solely. An example of this is IcTv - a Desi releaser exclusive to ICTorrent. A quick check on BwTorrents and iDesiR reveal a multitude of IcTv’s releases. This is not a theft - actually IcTv releases first to ICT, and then proceeds to release the same thing to other Desi trackers afterward (many groups do this, others do not). If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then at least ICT had the release first, and thus the fastest. Here’s a list of the major Desi P2P Groups:
- IcTv - Pre-DVDs, DVD-9s, DVD Rips and few other type of releases. Very fast at new releases, and is exclusiveto ICTorrent.com.
- xDR - All Rounder. The fastest Bollywood music releaser on the planet, one of the fastest movie releasers, very professional, great quality rips. xDR is the official releaser for DcT. Does 1 CD, 1/2 Upscaled, 1/3 DVD and M/CCE releases. "All Rounder" or "allrounder" refers to Desi P2P groups that release just about everything.
- MDR & UDR - both good upcoming teams and allrounders as well.
- DDR - All Rounder - fast with the DVD9’s.
- cF (canuckarfan) - Mostly movies, does just 2 releases a year (but worth it).
- TmG -a good quality dvd ripping team.
- DUS - Mainly Cover Movies and Music Videos.
- CRG - Cam Rips, PDVDs, PDVD Rips and Music Videos.
- DRs (real one with Farooqbhai, the group founder) - Quality DVD Rips
TV Release groups: On Desi P2P, there are only 2 teams which are worthy enough… Desi9 and BwTv. Both are run by experienced oldies, but Desi9 has the advantage over BwTv in both number of releases and quality wise - Desi9 covers a much wider variety of shows than BwTv and also it does custom DVDR’s which are extremely difficult to do.
- Desi9 -Has their own site for RapidShare (web) downloads - Desi9 : Indian Television Forum.
- BwTv - Desi9 = DcT’s team; BwTv = BwT’s team, but it’s certainly agreeable that both are equally great, and BwTv does give Desi9 a run for its money.
TV Watermarking: Both Desi9 and BwTv ‘watermark’ their TV releases. This is to prevent other Desi trackers from hosting their content. There’s an unwritten (but golden) rule among Desi trackers: if a release has any form of advertising or self-promotion for another tracker/Desi Board, then it is not allowed. This goes for MP3 tags in Desi music releases, as well.
An Anonymous Opinion…
I debated publishing this part of the article, but hell - what’s a little controversy? FileShareFreak spoke with an ‘old Desi scener’ who wishes to remain anonymous. But here’s his take on the Desi scene, and where it’s headed. We left this as-is.
- iDesiR — shit site, works only due to porn, doesn’t have any exclusive releases ofits own.
- DcT — Only thing DcT lacks is forum activity and that’s where BwT has a MAJOR advantage over DcT. In terms of exclusive quality releases DcT has the better advantage (even being what half the size of BwT almost with respect to members, hence the open reg’s now).
- BwT — BwT relies more on scene related releases as it now doesn’t have any home quality release group to calls its own anymore… BwT’s back broke when TmG left for themediasite.net (another inactive board) and the real DRs left for ICT. First they lost TmG, now they’ve lost DRs (Farooqbhai to be exact and his team mates, present Desi release group DRs on BwT = fake noob run by staff just to keep the name going forward). So yeah BwT even now sucks in terms of quality content whilst DcT is getting better everyday.
- ICT — Good newcomer, still has lots to prove, though. Mostly new movies DVD9, PDVDs are released on ICT. Rippers from different groups from other sites and leech here and release on their own sites which they are part of. Same goes for rips. IcTv Movie rips you can find on each and every site of Desi World.
- DT — SUCKS, runs only due to porn, same for desibbrg, idesir and exdesi andall those noob trackers.
Desi Trackers & Pay-2-Leech (P2L)
When money and private trackers are mentioned in the same sentence, it usually ruffles a few feathers. Without question, there’s no finer example of P2L than as found on Desi trackers. But, hey - at least they’re up front about it. Unless you can somehow find an invite, you’ll be stuck paying to get in to these sites which charge money to access or register:
- DesiTorrents - Free to register, but you won’t be able to view anything unless you donate $10 USD.
- BwTorrents - Registration is currently closed. While you’ll be able to view all areas without an account, the torrent links are hidden. A donation of $10 USD will get you in the door.
- iDesiR - Charges $12.50 USD for account registration. (Edit: Registrations are free now)
- ExDesi - 5 € (Euro) to join. (Edit: Registrations are currently open, see here.)
credits goes to the original writer who got these info
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