Invisible Empire: Revealing the production chain of online pirated movies

It is not surprising that Renren film was blacklisted by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA. As the "most prestigious" pirated film source release site in China, Renren film and television is simply a god in the process of China's intellectual property legislation.

Below, I want to tell you, in our computer hard disk those MKV, rmvb, HR-HDTV format of the film is how "production.

I used to sit on a DVD disc for thousands of movies as a part of the DVD era. After providing the video source from the thunder platform (sorry, I can't remember the site), I went away from the DVD world. Now, the DVD store that I once visited has been sold for sausage.

Start to step into the topic.

Movies are centered on the United States. For example, a partition of a DVD is located in the United States. Of course, partitioning is meaningless now. Generally, two to three months after the film is released, the production company will release a DVD.

Five years ago, if I wanted to talk about DVDs, I actually had a very fine score. Such as DVD-5, DVD-9, DVD-10, capacity in 4.7 GB, 7.9 GB, 10 Gb. In addition, there are HD-DVD (HD), Blu-ray DVD (Blu-ray) and so on. HD-DVD seems seldom seen, has been replaced by a blue disc, this standard disc is not popular in the Chinese market.

Among them, the blue disc is divided into two types, that is, BD-25 and BD-50, the number behind the capacity. Most of the HD video sources we download on the Internet are from the Blu-ray source. The original disk features high resolution, high bit rate, and film highlights.

In fact, genuine DVD discs cannot be squashed because they have a protection mechanism. For example, if you copy the file to a computer, the image will be garbled when it is opened. Therefore, the first step is to crack the process. However, in general, when a genuine DVD is released, it will soon become available in the pirated market.

The definition and content of the cracked version are exactly the same as those of the genuine version. The version conversion is generally made to save costs. For example, some DVD-9 disc source, is actually a Blu-ray source conversion.

With the Blu-ray source, the pirated team will suppress it and convert it into various video formats. However, there is another process, that is, integrating audio tracks/subtitles. In the rmvb era, we cannot switch audio tracks and subtitles because the compression format is not supported.

The current MKV format supports multiple audio tracks and subtitles. Audio tracks and subtitles must be extracted from the Blu-ray source. In fact, there is no advanced principle, and specialized software can be used to complete this work. Subtitle processing is complicated.

Because the subtitle file in a DVD is not a text file but an image file, it is stored in a vob video file. After extraction with special software, subtitle files are divided into time files and font files, and finally merged into. srt plug-in Subtitle files. It can also be embedded into videos.

As for the gun version of the movie, I will not talk about it here.

Then there is the subtitle group. Many people have read the content about the subtitle group. I will not repeat it here. In fact, I have not mixed the subtitle group, so I have no idea about it.

Next we will talk about the secondary processing of pirated film sources. In fact, most pirated movie sites in China only work in translation and post-suppression, and have not participated in the aforementioned cracking, conversion, or subtitle extraction of Blu-ray original disks. These jobs are basically contracted by foreigners.

So you will find that in Renren film, some movies abroad have made a 1080p or 720p MKV version, but the domestic HR-HDTV has to wait for a while. Generally, the names of the files of these 3-5G major first-time processed versions are marked with their production teams. Common examples include yify, Sparks, nezu, and Evo.

This is a foreign production team of pirated film sources scattered all over the world. They converted the original Blu-Ray DVD disk into a file format such as MKV, then made a BT seed file and published it to kickass. to, "Pirate Bay", torw.z. and other Bt sharing sites. The source of domestic translation is also based on the secondary processing of these sources.

Therefore, websites such as Renren film and television can claim that their resources come from the Internet and translate subtitles for learning purposes only. Indeed, these film sources are raw materials for secondary processing. So far, Renren film and TV has been standing in the world as a "subtitle group" and never admitted that he is a pirated website.

When talking about subtitles, there are also "subtitle groups" in foreign countries, but they are not translated but produced. The. srt plug-in subtitle file mentioned above is actually extracted from the DVD file. Therefore, this job requires a lot of work. Because there are many languages, and timeline creation is also troublesome. Subtitle websites such as the shooter network are almost dumb compared with foreign subtitle sites.

We are not only lagging behind in intellectual property protection, but also rely on foreigners in the film piracy industry.

Via Baidu baijia

Invisible Empire: Revealing the production chain of online pirated movies