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The Queen's Corgi
2019 · Film · 85 min
Directed by Ben Stassen, Vincent Kesteloot
Since his arrival at Buckingham palace, Rex lives a life of luxury. Top dog, he has superseded his three fellow Corgis in Her Majesty’s heart. His arrogance can be quite irritating. When he causes a diplomatic incident during an official dinner with the President of the United States, he falls into disgrace. Betrayed by one of his peers, Rex becomes a stray dog in the streets of London. How can he redeem himself? In love, he will find the resources to surpass himself in the face of great danger…
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>The Queen's Corgi
Interesting rabbit hole, that one. Seems to be a movie to cash in on "The Secret Life of Pets" which itself was probably a movie made to cash in on whatever Pixar had at the time. Release dates are wonky - it's been out in Belgium for months, which is probably how it appeared online.
I hadn't heard about the movie before - but because someone pirated it maybe I'll watch it now.
> You have fly-by-nights and unethical operations abounding that make everything only a google search away, sometimes with a single click.
Somebody uploaded the entire The Queen's Corgi on YouTube in pristine 720p quality (they must have had access to a BluRay to get this quality) and it's not even out in the USA yet (I am not even sure it'll even be released at all). No tricks, no visual artefacts to hide it, nothing. It's been up since May 28 and apparently noone cares.
> The “us” of 20 years ago would wonder WTF were arguing about and pay out the nose for these capabilities.
Maybe 20 years ago but not for long. In 2001 we had the xvid codec and boy, did movie piracy take off with xvid compressing DVDs to CDs. A slower burner already was under 100 USD and you needed a CD player anyways http://ixbtlabs.com/articles/news01m08/index.html also some combined DVD - CD-RW units were below 180 USD: https://books.google.ca/books?id=3uyMhR-uNRwC&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&dq=%222001%22+pc+magazine+cd+burner&source=bl&ots=TyqgzjXlFJ&sig=ACfU3U1tDp-Z6kBP2haeKpY6OUP4LI7H0A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjr1dO71cziAhUUpJ4KHVSlDWIQ6AEwCXoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=%222001%22%20pc%20magazine%20cd%20burner&f=false. Blank disks were cheap -- 30 cents wholesale. Pirated movies and TV collections were not only on CD-R disks but hard disks as well, in 2002 we had 200GB disks https://www.storagereview.com/articles/200210/20021018WD2000xB_1.html
Online P2P networking also skyrocketed at this time. In 2001 we had eDonkey2000 with ShareReactor and DC++ for the Direct Connect network. In 2003, Demonoid and Pirate Bay launches.