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- badqat, on 10/28/2009, -0/+35How many times can one watch keyboard cat?
- IHaveIssues, on 10/28/2009, -0/+33Except for those damn sites that block by country - I'm looking at you Hulu.
- fury420, on 10/28/2009, -0/+22Anyone else see the irony in basing these conclusions on data provided by Sandvine?
I mean... pretty much their entire business model is providing hardware solutions that allow ISPs to limit P2P use - FallingDonkey, on 10/28/2009, -0/+16No one cares. Except me. Please seed.
- sweetwater88, on 10/28/2009, -0/+12One word. Hulu. That's the only reason my torrenting is down about 70%. When Hulu starts charging I'm going back to 100% torrenting.
- Super6, on 10/28/2009, -1/+12I hope they do another report a month after hulu starts charging
- Klynx, on 10/28/2009, -0/+9This is stupid. Correlation fallacy. The videos streamed online are very rarely ones that people would seek through P2P. I still P2P to catch up on whole seasons of shows or new album releases. If they're worth it, I buy the rest of the seasons from a store or re-buy the album from a store. I know a lot of people the same way.
- velveetaavenger, on 10/28/2009, -0/+9It's probably more because Pirate Bay is down every other day then because people like watching youtube.
- priegog, on 10/28/2009, -0/+8Argh, I hate these kinds of news because you can just SMELL the agenda.
This is the kind of excuse ISP's want to justify not investing on bigger tubes. Flash video sites (besides being horrible quality and I can't understand for the life of me how a few years after the HDTV craze suddenly no-one cares watching their shows in worse-than-SDTV quality and in tiny screens) are for the most part not profitable as long as they offer their stuff for free. Youtube is great and all, but it's being run practically as a non-profit by google. Hulu has already showed this is not the way things are going to be in the long term. One would think the dot-com boom would have showed people these kinds of ethereal business models don't really work.
But anyways, back to the topic at hand. I currently torrent ALL my tv needs (mostly because I don't live in the US and national tv is ***** (not that US tv isn't ***** {like in any other place}, but the US has such a number of shows that some of them are actually good), but the tv industry has to step up. Even tivo is turning out not to be enough for some people. First they need to get rid of country copyright issues. In today's world it's just a nuissance and doesn't really make sense. And then they need to profit from this sutff. I would gladly switch to "legal" torrenting alternatives even if they had a few ads (altho not as many as normal tv, mind you). Their edge would be stability (vs having to switch sites every once in a while when they get closed) and, well, legality. And I suspect scene guys wouldn't feel the need to do what they do if the tv industry LISTENED to what consumers want and offered it for a change. Hell, even a payed-for service would do, provided it's not too expensive, and they offered the stuff the way I like it (ie: not DRM'd and in HD as oposed to itunes' way).
...but for all of this to happen, there just need to be enough tubes. 2 or 3 years ago everyone was worrying that due to torrenting the tubes wouldn't be enough in a very few years' time. But now they got the excuse they needed... for now
damn
/rant - ajcates, on 10/28/2009, -0/+8Well I'm looking at Spotify.
- palehorse864, on 10/28/2009, -0/+6Now I just wish shockwave flash would support full screen on dual monitors properly. I hacked it in for XP with a hex editor, but I can't find the DLL in windows 7. I don't want it to drop out of fullscreen when I work on something on another monitor.
- Super6, on 10/28/2009, -0/+5If you figure it out you need to make a web page about it, I have this problem too and it's really annoying because you can't work on anything if you want to watch fullscreen videos.
- MCA2142, on 10/28/2009, -0/+5I still want my EZTV torrents sitting IN my HDD.
- skidork, on 10/28/2009, -2/+7I don't think it was funny the first time... =(
- RobotBuddha, on 10/28/2009, -1/+5You have health care. I'd gladly trade you hulu for that.
- Iceman21, on 10/29/2009, -0/+4Sorry, currently our video library can only be streamed from within the United States
***** you hulu, ***** you. - CA5TIEL, on 10/29/2009, -0/+3Streaming sucks. Crappy quality, gotta use your pc aka small screen. Torrents can be dl'd put on a external hard drive and connected to my xbox and watched on the big screen. Why would I watch something on my small computer screen when i got a big screen right next to me? Torrents FTW
- zbeast, on 10/28/2009, -1/+3Great now media company's can stop bitching about p2p stealing all there profits.
- orangefly, on 10/28/2009, -0/+2i just checked out hulu desktop for the first time in a while....i am quite impressed....the plugin to media center is nice as well....i could do without the closing and opening of each other, but at least it returns both to full screen....
- mamboboy, on 10/28/2009, -1/+3But it's the "play him off" part which makes it funny.
- SpaceRibs, on 10/29/2009, -0/+2If you build it, they will come.
- palehorse864, on 10/29/2009, -0/+2Not sure if you will still be here, but there is a video on youtube.
The key is, if you're on any X64 version of windows 7, your macromed directory will be in syswow64, not system32.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwH_-C2-93E
The annotations include info for the latest flash. I tried it in windows 7 and the hex editor worked.
Windows wouldn't let me edit the file directly with the editor. I think I made the mistake of not running the hex editor as administrator. I haven't tried doing that, but it may work. What I eventually did after too many access denieds is to copy the dll to a non system directory, edit the copy, and then copy it back, overwriting the original. It let me overwrite the file since i'm on an administrator account, but it wouldn't let the program edit the file.Editing a copy of the file in a non system directory, no problem. - brandonthebuck, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1Companies carry so much more incentive to stream video because there's so much interactive, detailed analytics to gain from it. Downloads track only how many, when and where.
- diemunkiesdie, on 10/28/2009, -3/+4I hate Keyboard Cat. It was funny the first time. EVERY time after that it sucked.
- skidork, on 10/28/2009, -4/+5Keyboard cat watching is directly proportional to marijuana use.
Source: Your mother. - miaow, on 10/29/2009, -1/+1keyboard cat was a disappointment. not in the same league as giraffes fighting
- MisterEThoughts, on 10/29/2009, -1/+1Hulu and TVShack.net
- darkism, on 10/28/2009, -7/+1Cool story bro.
- inactive, on 10/28/2009, -8/+0Public torrents?.lol.
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