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World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days

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Re: World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days

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Post by zodPod »

emergentcypher wrote: post #45
cptskippy wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> with some color correction and other odds and ends. So they removed Luca's artistic touches and replaced them with their own?

No, the goal is to remove Lucas' artistic touches and get as close as possible to the original theatrical releases. Color correction means reversing all the color changes that Lucas made to the movies. Where higher quality film of a scene exists, they splice it in. Etc. If you google a bit you can find a detailed explanation of the changes.

For the record, the proper way to make a possessive out of a name that ends in s is just to use 's. It should be Lucas's. s' is only for when something is owned by more than one object. Think animals' house where there are several animals.

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/possessives.htm

Re: World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days

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Post by lelandbatey »

cesarb wrote: post #68

Speaking of fan-made and Matrix, a long time ago there was a fan-made film in the Matrix universe called The Fanimatrix ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fanimatrix ). Around a decade ago, I downloaded it through BitTorrent. Then a few years ago, I found it in my old files, still next to its original torrent file. Ever since then, I seed it on and off, in the vain hope that anyone knows it exists, has its torrent f…

What trackers are you using for this file? I'd mirror that file for sure.

Re: World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days

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Post by cesarb »

lelandbatey wrote: post #72
cesarb wrote: post #68

Speaking of fan-made and Matrix, a long time ago there was a fan-made film in the Matrix universe called The Fanimatrix ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fanimatrix ). Around a decade ago, I downloaded it through BitTorrent. Then a few years ago, I found it in my old files, still next to its original torrent file. Ever since then, I seed it on and off, in the vain hope that anyone knows it exists, has its torrent f…

What trackers are you using for this file? I'd mirror that file for sure.

TRACKERS

  Tier #1
  http://kaos.gen.nz:6969/announce
As I said, it's the original torrent file. The tracker it used is long defunct. Only DHT can be used for it now.

Re: World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days

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Post by lelandbatey »

emergentcypher wrote: post #45
cptskippy wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> with some color correction and other odds and ends. So they removed Luca's artistic touches and replaced them with their own?

No, the goal is to remove Lucas' artistic touches and get as close as possible to the original theatrical releases. Color correction means reversing all the color changes that Lucas made to the movies. Where higher quality film of a scene exists, they splice it in. Etc. If you google a bit you can find a detailed explanation of the changes.

There's a great YouTube video that explains the changes that later releases of Star Wars have, as well as the methods used by fans to make restorations in the Despecialized edition. You can find that video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXifjbxZDAM

Re: World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days

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Post by happycube »

bane wrote: post #38
deckar01 wrote: post #34

I really like the idea of torrents being used to distribute anonymous derivative works of copyrighted media. I recently created a fan edit of "Star Wars: Episode II - The Phantom Menace" for my dad for Christmas. I removed Jar Jar Binks and the entire Gungan subplot. I tried to keep the edits as subtle as possible, and I learned a lot about the editing techniques and transitions used in the film. I wanted to release…

You should probably also know about the "Despecialized" editions of the original trilogy which removes the CGI crap and restores the original movies (more or less) as they were, with some color correction and other odds and ends.

Even better, Team Negative1 just released their 35mm transfer of ANH!

Re: World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days

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Post by mmastrac »

cesarb wrote: post #73
lelandbatey wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What trackers are you using for this file? I'd mirror that file for sure.

TRACKERS Tier #1 http://kaos.gen.nz:6969/announce As I said, it's the original torrent file. The tracker it used is long defunct. Only DHT can be used for it now.

I'm not sure, think you can construct a DHT-only magnet link from that hash/filename like so: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:(hash)&dn=(filename)

Re: World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days

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Post by agumonkey »

jedberg wrote: post #19

Slightly off topic, but I find the fascination with ASCII-arting things interesting. I grew up in the days of 2400 baud modems and even ran a BBS briefly. At the time, ASCII art was the only thing you could do to differentiate yourself. Nowadays I suppose it's a combination of nostalgia and ease of transferring since pretty much every system ever has a way of reading ASCII. But I wonder how long the trend will last -…

ASCII will subsist a long time. Just like the roman alphabet. It's minimal and easy to support. People rely on it to express through words or art or diagrams. It just sticks around because it's the easiest form of computerized lettering you get.

Unicode is too heavy and complex AFAIK.

Re: World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days

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Post by putlake »

cesarb wrote: post #68

Speaking of fan-made and Matrix, a long time ago there was a fan-made film in the Matrix universe called The Fanimatrix ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fanimatrix ). Around a decade ago, I downloaded it through BitTorrent. Then a few years ago, I found it in my old files, still next to its original torrent file. Ever since then, I seed it on and off, in the vain hope that anyone knows it exists, has its torrent f…

It's on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/754262

Re: World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days

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Post by slyall »

cesarb wrote: post #73
lelandbatey wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What trackers are you using for this file? I'd mirror that file for sure.

TRACKERS Tier #1 http://kaos.gen.nz:6969/announce As I said, it's the original torrent file. The tracker it used is long defunct. Only DHT can be used for it now.

I used to work with a couple of people that helped with that movie. I think it came out between the first two movies when the whole Matrix thing was huge :)

kaos.gen.nz was the personal domain of one of the guys I worked with. He's the "Juggling Goth" at 4:30 and did some other stuff.

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