Hell freezes over, etc.

[tzikeh]

Warner Brothers partners up with Bittorrent.

*will not tempt fate by making a "Mission Accomplished" icon*

Comments

[lydiabell.livejournal.com]

According to the BBC, the price for a feature film will be about the same as the DVD price, which is ridiculous.

TV shows for a buck, though!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I'm all about the tv shows. I can still download the films anyway. :-D

[(Anonymous)]

Really? I thought that once BitTorrent went legal, they were going to remove illegal stuff from their search engines...:(

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

bittorrent isn't the only place to get stuff. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

But it's one of the fastest, and the best. I don't want to sound like a whiny bitca, but I will really miss bittorrent if and when it goes.

Also...bittorrent isn't the only place to get stuff....share? Pretty please? If you don't want to reply to a public entry, rout345@yahoo.com?

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

try http://piratebay.org/ for one it's in Sweden. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Shiny! Thank you.

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

Remember, bittorrent isn't a place. It's a method. A technique... and an open source one at that. So it cant dissappear simply because one company want to use it to distribute movies laden with Digital Rights Management and a hefty price tag. Provided that there are trackers with all your trusty downloads, you will be able to access this data which comes from other people's computers.

[(Anonymous)]

Phew. Thanks. :)

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

I saw a different, less-detailed report on that last night and I wondered if it was a joke!

Although I laugh at the idea that B5 hasn't hit the internet.

[therienne.livejournal.com]

Take this with a pound of salt, for now. My understanding is, they're using a client similar to bittorrent overseas already, and... bundle in their own crappy DRM, to cause havoc on your computer, charge you the same amount as a dvd, for lesser quality, plus, none of the extras that would be included on a dvd make their way into the package.

But, if you let 50 people completely download from you, you get a free movie. Whatever. I remain intensely suspicious.

[merryish.livejournal.com]

Plus, you can only watch it on the computer you download it to - can't burn it to DVD, can't transfer it to another machine...

Lame.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Well, true - but someone will hack that in five minutes and you know it. :-D

[merryish.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, cuz GEEKS aren't lame. WB is, for thinking they're offering a service. I'm not about to pay $15-20 bucks for a movie I can't burn to DVD and can't watch on more than one computer, when I could pick it up at Blockbuster for the same price with a label and a pretty cover, and watch it wherever I want. Hell, I'm unlikely to pay the $2 for a tv show under those conditions.

The question is: Does WB think making Bit torrent take down some movies will force us to choose to buy DVDs (uh, no; also: lame) or do they think we're so lazy we'd pay full price for cripple-ware (also no, also lame), or do they imagine we won't crack them and distribute them free or just go find the movies for free someplace else?

Pretty lame anywhere you slice it.

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

How can they make "bittorent" take anything down? Bittorrent isn't a place that stores anything. It's not even really a company. It's just a downloading technique, just like FTP is a technique for file transfer... the difference being that bittorrent is designed to spread amongst several downloaders. The only place that stores anything are the tracker sites that link to the files being shared by others but the tracker links and the downloading technique are not one and the same.

[merryish.livejournal.com]

Which, to my mind, = Bit Torrent 1, WB 0. Because part of the deal is that BT will "remove" content that would infringe upon WB's rights. Uh, from WHERE, remove? From my computer? Is BT's founder gonna come knock on my door?

I don't think P2P means what WB thinks it means...

[ratcreature]

Too bad that it's unlikely that they'll offer it to customers outside the US, It would be cool to be able to download tv legally.