Santa's here, wanting to let everyone know that DIMENSION is on the naughty list!
It seems the king of the TV scene has P2P ties, but I'm sure this won't be a shock to those
who stay well informed...
As it turns out they give transport streams to P2P groups, share info with p2p members, and
apparently don't give a fuck if they go blabbing about it. That doesn't sound too secure...
It all started earlier this year on the broadcasthe.net televison torrent website. Years ago
a thread on their forum about DIMENSION's preair and high quality encodes was made and over time
there's been little contributions of discussion. The thread was mostly dead but revived about six
months ago when a user named stin02, who's been on the tracker for over 4 years, made a post claiming to
know DIMENSION.
Of course, what P2P guy would know a scener, let alone someone in DIMENSION? People quickly called Stin out
on his bullshit, but he quickly proved himself as truthful. Here's his initial post: http://i.imgur.com/5mbmlZG.png (1.png)
He starts saying he can't say much. Okay, fine, that's obvious. But as time passed he said more and more.
The day Fargo S01E10 was set to air, June 17th, Stin revealed the tech specs for that night's upcoming encode
in a post to the forum. It was posted hours before the episode was set to air anywhere. He provided
the runtime,
file size, and exact video bitrate. See: http://i.imgur.com/aLefbEy.png (2.png) He also offered pass on info to DIMENSION.
That same day a user on the website, aldzzjuks, quoted his post with the leaked specs of the encode
DIMENSION had yet
to release. http://i.imgur.com/sfEJKhy.png (3.png) Stin said he's glad they did so nobody can say he edited his post after
DIMENSION released it. Having been alerted about the post before the encode was out thanks to an insider, I can confirm
the specs given in the post did indeed match the release by DIMENSION.
The tech specs Stin leaked provided to be sure: http://i.imgur.com/DXkRSLW.png (4.png) Don't believe me? Go download
Fargo.S01E10.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION right now and see for yourself, it matches the specs Stin gave.
What does this mean? It means DIMENSION is providing their preair encodes to at least one P2P individual
hours before they pre. That's 1) frowned upon and 2) insecure.
Don't worry, there's more thanks to Stin blabbing his mouth. He revealed that soon DIMENSION would be releasing
HDTV caps of Orange Is The New Black. How, if it's Netflix exclusive? http://i.imgur.com/LltFv3D.png (5.png)
Sure enough, Stin was right, as on the 30th of June DIMENSION released their HDTV caps of OITNB.
http://i.imgur.com/LUS3xuE.png (6.png)
Regarding the post about UTD 2x01, Stin had a little to say: http://i.imgur.com/lJ0Z6Cx.png (7.png)
The real kicker? It turns out DIMENSION is okay with Stin leaking the info. What the fuuuuuck? http://i.imgur.com/L3P00qi.png (8.png)
"as long as I didn't say where I got their sources from"
Well shit son, Community.S05E01.1080i.HDTV.25.Mbps.DTS-HD.MA.5.1.H.264-TrollHD was uploaded by Xizer to BTN about an hour before
Community.S05E01.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION was pred...there's a video glitch about 20 seconds into the TrollHD preair raw,
and then the audio goes 2 or 3 seconds out of sync for the rest of the episode. I quote a comment on
the TrollHD torrent:
"Interestingly, however, DIM release had a picture glitch at the exact same spot where TrollHD's cap
of ep1 went oos. Makes one wonder..."
http://i.imgur.com/QcoY6wo.png (9.png)
If you can get the TrollHD raw, do compare it to DIMENSION's release and you'll see...coincidence?
TrollHD definitely gets preair and backhaul, here's a few releases by them:
Emmy.Awards.2014.1080i.HDTV.35.Mbps.4.2.2.H264-TrollHD
MTV.Video.Music.Awards.2013.1080i.HDTV.32.Mbps.DTS-HD.MA.5.1.4:2:2.MPEG2-TrollHD
Lady.Gaga.ARTPOP.artRave.1080i.HDTV.70.Mbps.MPA2.0.MPEG2-TrollHD
Lady.Gaga.and.the.Muppets.Holiday.Spectacular.2013.720p.HDTV.DTS-HD.MA.5.1.H.264-TrollHD
Community.S05E03.1080i.HDTV.25.Mbps.DTS-HD.MA.5.1.H.264-TrollHD
Finally, Stin admitted to DIMENSION sharing their raw streams to CtrlHD, a p2p encoder group. http://i.imgur.com/hw24U9N.png (10.png)
He then ended his post with "If you're reading this, you know how to get a hold of me."
It doesn't take brains to figure out he's implying that the person or persons from DIMENSION are on the Broadcasthenet tracker.
In short, DIMENSION leaks to p2p before release, they share with p2p in general, and don't care if
people blab their mouth.
It's insecure, but because they're #1 nobody's going to give a rats ass, whereas if it was anyone
else steps would be taken to purge.
What a shame.