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People in Europe are taking NTSC movies, and encoding them digitally, converting them to PAL, and in doing so, are causing the movies to be distorted in both time and pitch. When these distorted movies are shared via the Internet, such as on bittorrent, they end up back in the hands of people in North America. Some people don't realize they've collected and are sharing distorted media, and the bad movie files continue to propagate. What these European encoders should be doing is converting them digitally to the proper NTSC format, then using a media player that can play both PAL and NTSC. This would be much better than polluting the Internet and bittorrents with distorted "PAL Speedup" movies and video media.Bittorrents today are filled with a mix of properly encoded media, and distorted crap. It isn't uncommon to see highly rated downloads which are actually suffering from PAL Speedup. People doing encoding that lack the knowledge to do it correctly are the culprit. Movies suffering from PAL Speedup need to be rated low, and eradicated.== more background and references ==