While searching for a you aren’t just looking for a movie; you’re looking for a piece of internet history. For a specific generation of movie fans, the "aXXo" tag was the ultimate gold standard for digital cinema.
However, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button runs for nearly three hours. Ripping a film of such length to the 700MB standard required significant compression (using codecs like XviD). This often resulted in artifacts—pixelation during dark scenes or blurring during fast motion. The popularity of the "Dvdrip-axxo" version of this specific film demonstrates that for the mass market of 2008, convenience and accessibility (downloading a single file) outweighed the loss of visual fidelity inherent in compressing a high-budget epic to a fraction of its DVD size.