1,000 Blu-Rays downloaded in one second!

[Batutta]

And that sound you hear is the MPAA crapping their pants.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13469924

 

[TwistedLincoln]

The article claims it is only 1,000 DVD's per second. No longer interested

 

[Eric Boellner]

Batutta, your current avatar kind of looks like the MPAA crapping their pants...

 

[tmnt]

The Australian Government is spending just under 40 BILLION dollars on a National Broadband Network via optical fibres. Was always a bad idea.

 

[Hawk Teflon]

My question is: Where did they find 1000 HD DVD's?

 

[David Jimerson]

And that sound you hear is the MPAA crapping their pants.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13469924

As they should, along with anyone who has any notion of having a career in narrative moving pictures. (Event videographers will probably remain unaffected.)

 

[Doc Bernard]

My question is: Where did they find 1000 HD DVD's?

It's 1000 copies of one movie.

 

[Alex H.]

It's 1000 copies of one movie.

Except, if I'm reading the article correctly, they're only using "1000 high-definition DVDs" as a reference point to the amount of data they were able to move. They weren't actually downloading these HD DVDs... just the equivalent amount of information.

This very much challenges content creators on future security, and as David said that should worry us. Like any technological advancement, it can be used for good or for evil.

 

[groveChuck]

The trick is to use what is known as a "fast Fourier transform"

Hah! I've been doing that for ages!

The push for higher data rates in light-based telecommunications technologies has seen a number of significant leaps in recent years.

And yet from their October article:

Fibre optic cables' data capacity may soon be reached
Technology may stretch the capacity of the fibre optic cables used to carry data sooner than has long been thought, according to a report in Science.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11544459