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- GRTWHT, on 12/19/2007, -0/+32Give the seeders a cut of the revenues, then maybe I'll use up my bandwidth so they can make money.
- MattJF317, on 12/19/2007, -1/+21"Sorry, this demo requires Windows 95, XP or greater and either Internet Explorer or Firefox. Support for other browsers and platforms is coming soon."
- bradym80, on 12/19/2007, -2/+21Why would I seed some advertisements for free?
This is the definition of being a corporate whore. - philthetechie, on 12/19/2007, -1/+181,000 more ***** titles to watch for free coming soon!*
*After we have used all of your bandwidth to successfully stream massive amounts of advertisements to other viewers. - solid12345, on 12/19/2007, -3/+12Good lord, i'm completely convinced you cannot please pirates. No matter what solution or alternative that comes up with they always find a way to bitch about it. Just admit you don't want to pay for ***** and will never give them money.ever. how hard is that?
- chris9902, on 12/19/2007, -2/+11it doesn't work in my browser of choice and I have to see ads? hmm...
- BrandNewJesus, on 12/19/2007, -0/+5not to mention that the isp is still blocking (delaying) bit torrent.
- houndeyex, on 12/19/2007, -0/+5Bandwidth? Isn't that the beauty of P2P?
- veilrap, on 12/19/2007, -4/+9WTF Is with all the bitching. They are offering movies LEGALLY for FREE using a new method of using the bittorent. Despite over charging by RIAA, MPAA, etc. theft is ILLEGAL.
If Best Buy offered you dvds for free if you came to their store and watched an ad. Are you telling me it's okay to just say ***** that and STEAL the disc? I think not.
I hate the RIAA and MPAA as much as anyone, but seriously: Piracy does not make you righteous. - stalefries, on 12/19/2007, -0/+4It's hard to please a group that gets anything they want, for free, and really fast and high-quality. There's not much you can do to beat that.
- JamesMorris, on 12/19/2007, -2/+4USA only what the *****. Anyone got a good working us proxy that works fine with firefox?
- commentbot, on 12/19/2007, -2/+4"Sorry, this demo requires Windows 95, XP or greater and either Internet Explorer or Firefox".
LOL, it's not for me. I use Opera and openSUSE. No problem, I'll be fine with the Pirate Bay and with no ads :) - gds923, on 12/19/2007, -0/+1I'm very happy to see bittorrent finding real world mainstream applications. Great news!
- STARTSOMETHING, on 12/19/2007, -0/+1What is the wheel of fortune?
- Topher06, on 12/19/2007, -1/+2I can't wait for someone to rip these streams and put them on thepiratebay.
- superkendall, on 12/19/2007, -0/+1I've been waiting for BitTorrent streaming to come along for a while, it just makes so much more sense than having everything on a server or even on a large number of cached systems.
ISP's should actually like it because instead of lots of people all going to a server or two and downloading a huge amount of content, a few people download most of it to distribute to everyone else within the ISP's network. - mablco, on 12/19/2007, -0/+1orange county!
- Atomic1fire, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1this isnt really about paying for the torrents
this is about paying for the content
in theory the renting and buying cost should be much cheaper because its a torrent - timdorr, on 12/19/2007, -1/+2The Pirate Bay is currently tracking 6,853,306 peers. I'd hardly call that "obscurity".
- timdorr, on 12/19/2007, -1/+2Don't bother. The only content on there is all absolute crap.
- potterboy, on 12/19/2007, -0/+1Doesn't work in yesterday's build of Minefield. Does it work in standard Firefox 3?
- ordig, on 12/19/2007, -1/+2maybe because if you don't it would be illegal. I'm sure that's what the MPAA would want. forced advertising for bit torrent users
- Atomic1fire, on 12/27/2007, -0/+1I would think that this would make it much cheaper
but just wait till this method becomes widespread before you start complaining
walmart bittorent ftw
prices should go down as a market for distributing the content takes shape - dadimwit, on 12/20/2007, -0/+1How does this work for those of us stuck with Comcast and Sandvine?
- burty89, on 12/19/2007, -0/+1Hahahah! Are you serious?
- ahbab, on 05/16/2008, -0/+0How does this work for those of us stuck with Comcast and Sandvine?
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http://www.ahba2b.com/vb - veilrap, on 12/19/2007, -1/+1U T O R R E N T
- xero69, on 12/19/2007, -1/+1So does this mean high availability AND it would be nearly impossible to "take down" a video once it's posted? This would be great for free speech in our lawsuit DMCA happy internet of today.
- veilrap, on 12/19/2007, -2/+2Sorry you're being dug down, I completely agree with you. Stupid diggiots.
- Atomic1fire, on 12/27/2007, -1/+1we do have all the content everyone else seems to enjoy
if you dont like how our government is run
Move here and vote for a new one...
and if you dont like how our content is run
come here for it
its not our fault you guys like our tv shows - solid12345, on 12/19/2007, -1/+1How about other torrent users pay me too to seed their files?
- Skooma714, on 12/19/2007, -3/+2usenet?
- Dsn989, on 12/19/2007, -9/+8Even if it is locked in to Windows on somewhat obscure websites, anything that brings torrent closer to mainstream is good news for the end user!
What we really need is something like iTunes podcast torrent support to launch torrent out of obscurity! - veilrap, on 12/19/2007, -2/+1Easy fix -> move to the US
- herebejames, on 09/17/2008, -2/+0yet another US only web page i cant enjoy, this is SNL shorts all over again...
- YourMaster, on 12/19/2007, -2/+0I can tell pretty accurately at what point you stopped reading the parent post, seeing how you entirely missed the very explicit point..
- inactive, on 12/19/2007, -4/+1Riiight, because torrent needs ads. Nice try, but you fail, New Coke style.
- austinnowlin, on 12/19/2007, -7/+4...and the digg bitching begins.
- HacKing, on 12/19/2007, -8/+3In my opinion, this is only a small, underlying cause. Means nothing in the grand scheme of things, as I hear of something like this every week. I wrote all my opinions into a State of the Industry address. If you care, http://thepirateblog.net/?p=33
If not, its a good read anyway. If you don't want to read it, that's fine. - latova, on 12/19/2007, -11/+6First off, its already locked into IE and Firefox for Windows so I can't even see how this works. I know they're still making support but it makes me wonder if other sites using this will make it work on linux/mac/opera.
Secondly, this whole idea of ad supported bittorrent is a bit sketchy. Before providers can justify the amount ads by the bandwidth costs to download it. Now that users are the ones sharing the content and the bandwidth costs, will they cut down on the advertisements? Not likely. - Firestarthe, on 12/19/2007, -9/+3Been thinking of something like this for a while, glad to see it coming true.
- inactive, on 12/19/2007, -10/+2BitTorrent had a good run, I'll be sad to see it go.
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