You’ll never believe what just happened! Well, ok, so you might. I’m still reclaiming stuff I’ve lost since that big multiple hard drive formatting :urgh: I’m so dense. Anyway, I’ve been getting a lot of my stuff on Kazaa Lite (go figure?! :rolleyes:) The reason is, with speedup and left alone on my windows machine for a few days, you can downloads tuns of stuff with no strings attached, and you don’t have a minumum amount of shared data to connect. Last night I had the urge to see the movie Akira. I went in my cd case and crossed my fingers… I slowly opened it up and peeked inside… oh: looked and looked for akira… /sigh/ :tired: it wasn’t there. I had lost it in the formatting. A while back I got a cd burner from a friend free in the state of “seriously broken” and he was right. MAJOR sync problems… It was an 8xDVDrom but its avg read speed was less than 0.2x I decided it worked well enough to give dvd ripping a shot. I had never ripped a dvd before and tried to learn on this thing. After a few days of failing, I ripped my Akira special edition DVD. When I went to compress it using DIVX5 I realized how little I really understood compression techniquies. :blush: I managed to encode the thing into a video file that was exactly 2 hour and 45 seconds long. I removed the initial “pioneer” logo and cut out all of the english credits. Ok, with that story told, I’ll tell ya’ what happened. I went on kazaa and downloaded akira last night. I only found one version that was > 600mb… and it said DIVX so I figured it should be decent. I downloaded it and just now played it… it was exactly 2 hours and 45 seconds long… without the pioneer logo or ending english credits… and had my signature poor encoding all over it! This way my rip!! I remember sharing this on kazaa right when i ripped it for only a matter hours… Someone must have gotten it and shared it… because tons of people have my file! It’s crazy XD