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- wisam, on 08/06/2008, -1/+8It's good to know that Bittorrent Inc. guys are against DRM. They seem to know that it harms their business but that's what content providers want.
Why would pay money and share my bandwidth only to get the movie in restricted form?
I'd be willing to pay some money and share some bandwidth but get a non-DRM'd movie. - gimmini2003, on 08/07/2008, -0/+4*tear*
I WAS ONLY TRYING TO HELP!!! - ironeus, on 08/06/2008, -0/+3rough news, though it's only 12 it's high percentages. Guess all the restrictions have a consequence.
- cadmiumpaint, on 08/07/2008, -0/+3Define Irony:
A company which makes a product that helps people circumvent copyright and obtain things for free is in financial difficulty because no one is buying their stuff. - gilbes, on 08/07/2008, -0/+3Wait.
Step 1: Create a distribution mechanism that only gained popularity because of piracy and create a business model that uses the technology and must compete with piracy that you help spread.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
And seriously, they expected to save consts on bandwidth using their BitTorrent bandwidth sharing and then NOT pass that savings on to the consumer.
The reason its failing is because everything about it is a bad idea.
uTorrent is the only thing they have going for them, and it is free software. What investors figured any of this was a good business model? It worked for Napster right? No. Uhhh mp3.com? No. Uhhhhhh........ - AgmLauncher, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2How ironic haha. Imagine that, you can't make a sustainable living making free software from software that encourages people to get something for free.
- skinrock, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2Update: In a comment received after publication of the article, Ashwin Navin told TorrentFreak that the layoffs are not related to the failing entertainment store.
- DarkShroud, on 08/06/2008, -0/+2Hmm, I hope this isn't going to slow down development of BitTorrent & µTorrent.
- GlitchEnzo, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1AND YOU FAILED!!! :-P
Seriously though, I don't know why everyone had to be such an ass to you. I was mainly commenting to show off the uber-cool not-equals symbol. - pnunn, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Gosh, we're fresh out of irony today- but I do have this bag of "I told you so's."
- TurnipFarm, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1It's hilarious when companies try to make money off piracy, and it never works out too well.
- ericlander, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1They need to focus on the acceptance of the technology, not the profitability of their store. Time to pimp BitTorrent's capabilities and give the media more to focus on than shady p2p networks and Pirate Bay type sources.
- bunnyman1, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Yes.
- bioskope, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1http://img230.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fireshotc ...
What is this? The 0 diggs thread? - SEGA4life, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1P2P maker, struggling to make money from their download store...
Irony. - zunipus, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1I think a few folks here need to read up on the history of BitTorrent. The guy who created BitTorrent is a bit of a genius, and was smart and generous enough to make it Open Source. Thus we have great and elaborate derivatives like Azureus (which, after you turn off all the marketing crap, is actually very powerful).
Then the developer basically got put in a corner by the MPAA (the motion picture assh*le association, the movie equivalent of the RIAA thugs) and did some palsy-walsy marketing photos with some guy who looks like Lurch from the Adams Family (very scary) and changed the BitTorrent site into the equivalent of the current Napster. Same strategy, same failure to thrive after being corrupted.
Conclusion: No surprise. The RIAA and MPAA bought the pirates out, set up a worthless business that worked in their favor, everyone with a brain got the clue about the con and abandoned the site. No income. Bye-bye. - SirRealist, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1uTorrent has a store? Huh...who'd a thunk it..
- shaneomac27, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1they had to get a new Hard Drive so they fire 12 employees...rofl
- Lith25, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1So in order to download this legal stuff, you have to know how to use bit-torrent. If you know how to use bit-torrent you probably already download illegal stuff.
- GlitchEnzo, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Fired ≠ Laid Off
Fixed.
By the way, it should NEVER be =/=. != is a valid alternative. - tidu, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0"pay for our product... but not theirs"
- gimmini2003, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0i think that would just cause people to illegally download the software from something else.....
- Scottievm, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0He was clearly being sarcastic...
- tastypastry, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0If they did offer DRM free movies I would have gladly paid for it just to support the technology and the company. I just happen to be wearing my BitTorrent shirt right now too.
- Scottievm, on 08/07/2008, -1/+1Irony.
- jemka, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0meshman + gimmini2003 < Jemka
Fixed. - rulezgetbent, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I would give them my LIFE.
- inactive, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Those two symbols have totally different meanings. A =/= B means A does not ALWAYS equal B, which leaves open the possibility that A may SOMETIMES equal B. A != B means that A and B are mutually exclusive. The forward slash in =/= merely indicates that the relationship == does not obtain.
Example: fruit =/= apples, but apples == fruit. Conversely, apples != vegetables. - killerbob2323, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0No it wouldn't people would just switch to other freeware programs like azureus.
- jamesdew, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I thought they made money from creating custom p2p distribution models for companies.
- santaliqueur, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0=/= != !=
You're an idiot, and also wrong. The proper use is != - anandpopat, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0hahaha, what do you expect??? How can any company expect to make money when there customers are cheap people who avoid paying for various programs/music/anything?
- inactive, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Well it's a bit hard for people to use the service when we have Comcast being anal about torrents, and don't get me started about Canadian ISPs.
- AzureRise, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I'll hold you to that, sir.
- eminn3m, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0/Sarcasm (I hope)
- samard2002, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Maybe they should start charging a fee for their software, I'm sure that would work well for them.
- gcnaddict, on 08/07/2008, -0/+012/55 != 0.2
- inactive, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0No, your grasp of elementary logic is weak. All apples are fruits. The contrapositive: no apple is not a fruit.
- ali3n, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0NOPE SORRY... EPIC FAIL FOR ASSUMING PEOPLE WILL BUY MUSIC AND MOVIES
- inactive, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I love uTorrent and if I were using Windoze I'd pay for my copy because of this in an instant.
However, I use Linux and OSX so I swear by Transmission... Sorry BitTorrent. - inactive, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0They'll need a new idea. Can I suggest developing p2p streaming videos be further developed? Crosses fingers.
- unrealmp3, on 08/07/2008, -1/+1Whatever, they are jobless now.
- chicofernet, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0well, it depends
it gives you 0.2181818..
So if you try to round it it might be: 0.22
If you round it to one decimal after the point then it would be 0.2. - sfacets, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0lol sellouts. Same think happened with Napster. You think you can suddenly ask for money for something users have been getting for free for years? Dream on.
- inactive, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I thought they'd be doing great with all the RIAA kickbacks
- gimmini2003, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0Fired =/= Laid off
Fix'd - meshman, on 08/06/2008, -4/+3Fired != Laid off
- juliustan, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0you obviously understand what he is saying, why do you guys even care?
- samard2002, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0It really, really is.
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