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Years active | 2005–2009 |
Known for | Content distribution |
aXXo is the Internet alias of an individual who released and standardized commercial film DVDs as free downloads on the Internet between 2005 and 2009.[1][2] The files, which were usually new films, were popular among the file sharing community using peer-to-peer file sharing protocols such as BitTorrent. A download-tracking firm BigChampagne found — in a sampling period in late 2008 — that almost 33.5% of all movie downloads were aXXo torrents.[3] aXXo encoded files to approximately 700 MB – the same size for a compact disc.[3] Due to the re-encoded quality of an aXXo file, the suffix "aXXo" was often used by imitators.[3]
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