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- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -9/+130Ok. I hope you RIAA/MPAA ***** are reading this. The drop in P2P is not because of your stupid law suit or your anti piracy initiative. No one gives a ***** about those. The drop is happening is because we are finally getting what we want. DRM free, easily acessable and decently priced content. Listen to the damn customer you suits. you might get a good idea or two and help you get a new business model instead of clinging on to the old monolithic models.
- jerwong, on 09/03/2008, -1/+57Why wait for porn to download when you can just stream it?
- MasterThief117, on 09/03/2008, -6/+54***** THE RIAA/MPAA
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -2/+39Take progressive initiatives like Valve did with Steam, and maybe people wont pirate your content
Or just suck a dick - inactive, on 09/03/2008, -1/+32correction:
P2P traffic drops as streaming porn videos grows in popularity - GOVATENT, on 09/03/2008, -0/+17and for free
- shanehonda, on 05/19/2009, -0/+16Can't wait to see what the ISPs' excuse is for limiting our bandwidth when it's being used for legitimate and legal purposes (ABC's HD streaming, for example).
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -0/+14So true
Pornhub + Megarotic + Spankwire + Redtube + YouPorn + A dozen other websites = Happiness - D3koy, on 09/03/2008, -0/+12I know I use Hulu or network sites to watch a missed episode of a tv show rather than torrenting it. I've got no problems with the ads...
- pigfister, on 09/03/2008, -0/+12call them who they are please!
RIAA:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Universal Music Group
# Warner Music Group
# EMI
MPAA:
# The Walt Disney Company
# Sony Pictures
# Paramount Pictures Viacom—(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
they are the same companies that make up the IFPI, the BPI and ever other ass hat media trade group in the world , all the **AA name is for is to protect these ***** from bad press and the loss of sales due to boycotting. - smotpoker, on 09/03/2008, -1/+12Exactly what I was going to mention. If ISPs were tripping over p2p-related bandwidth usage, they are going to start hating this stuff pretty soon as more and more people adopt it.
I know I started hating it when my sister discovered youtube and surfthechannel and I was forced to setup qos for our voip, hah. What's even worse for the ISPs is that with streaming media, people typically have to re-download everything if they wanna watch the same thing again or their browser crashes in the middle of it. A substantial amount of time the same media ends up consuming like 2-5x more bandwidth than if they had just downloaded an avi or mp3 - HillerMylife, on 09/03/2008, -1/+12So true. I don't download media to stick it to the man, I just do whatever's easy and free.
- evilregis, on 09/03/2008, -0/+10¿ɐɐıɹ ǝɥʇ ʞɔnɟ
- h3lx, on 09/03/2008, -0/+9It's because you were adopted.
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -0/+7People pirate Steam games all the time.
- solesoul, on 09/03/2008, -1/+8and lo, the prophet did thuswise speak the truth!
- rald84, on 09/03/2008, -1/+8i'm waiting for streaming P2P video to mature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2PTV - KaiserArny, on 09/03/2008, -0/+6Oh no! The troll's back.
Seriously, how much do they pay you?
Is it really a good job? - ErrorLoading, on 09/03/2008, -0/+6Duh, the only reason I ever downloaded movies/tv was so that I could watch it when and where I wanted to. With Hulu and Netflix, I'm usually content.
- worminater, on 09/03/2008, -4/+10i tried to bury you for ranting; but after wavering i dug you. I salute.
- stonebone4, on 09/03/2008, -0/+6Some people would also steal a paper bag full of dog ***** if you wrote "PLEASE DON'T TAKE THIS" on it.
When a company respects their customers like Valve does, a lot more people are going to respect them back. There will still be a percentage of people that steal stuff anyway because some people think they just have the right to do and take whatever they want no matter what. - tidu, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5You're right, last night I watched a Hungry Man commercial on Hulu
"Where you ladies goin'?" - eSentrik, on 09/03/2008, -1/+6Amen.
- borez, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5Let's see the ISP's start whinging about bandwidth usage when the general public starts waking up to the heavyweight streaming capabilities of the net. You won't be complaining about the minority taking up all the bandwidth when the majority are clued in will you.. or you just may find you're out of business quicker than I can count to ten.
FTR: I have my perfect ISP in the UK, it's called Bethere.com, it lets me do what I want, when I want... No cap, no crap, no monitoring, no bottlenecks. I do pay over the odds for it, but it's worth every ***** penny. Their business model is the model that ALL ISP's should be following.
And this is fine with me. - T440, on 09/03/2008, -1/+6Funny thing is, I actually remember what ads I saw during Lost in Translation (Dove, Hungryman, Sprint, Sons of Anarchy{or something to that affect}).
I think 5-10 minutes of video and then 15-30 seconds of one ad is more effective than 5 minutes of video and then 5 minutes of ads. - swmbuk, on 03/30/2009, -0/+4Just because you don't like the RIAA/MPAA does not mean you don't buy music or films.
- chrisinsocalif, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4Like I always say, Business have to work with technology, not against them. So many OLD CEO's just dont understand the internet and how powerful of a tool it can be. Hopefully this can knock some sense into those who just dont understand.
- coheedcollapse, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4That's how many of us are. I download TV shows, but if they're available from any of the various television websites that I visit legally streaming, I do that. It's easier for me since I usually just watch a show once and toss it anyways.
I've never been one for downloading movies. Most of what comes out is junk, but the stuff that I want to see, I want to see it in the theater - not taken by some shaky camera with horrible sound. - megamod, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4I guess your comment digg ups/down will act as a poll. this should be interesting.
- Elderon, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4I don't understand why ISPs are so upset over customers using bandwidth. "The network providers have never been keen on having their bandwidth hit so hard" It's like well no *****, Of course internet users are gonna use the bandwidth. That's the whole purpose of an isp, to dole out bandwidth.
It's like someone with a HUGE swimming pool pitching a bitch when more than 1 or 2 people want to get into the water. - inactive, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3The problem with America is that we have corporatism with all the cons but none of the benefits. We give them subsidy after subsidy, and tax exempt after tax exempt, believing that they will use the money to invest in more networks, but instead, they just pocket it. In some cases, it would be detrimental for the ISPs to lay down more lines because the very thing they do not want is streaming TV. Companies that provide Cable and Internet want people to only check e-mail or browse a few sites and then watch all the TV since it is more profitable. Add that with free subsidies and tax exempt money and corporations are set. I would be opposed to Net Neutrality normally, but since our current system isn't free market at all, I am completely for it. I'm also for unmetered connections as long as government gives subsidies and unfair treatment to large ISPs.
- jcaino, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3in the same manner that you keep getting dugg down - the story got dugg up.
- h3lx, on 09/03/2008, -0/+35-6 weeks of no Top Gear and then all of sudden on some random ass day you get 5 episodes in a row... who can decipher that *****. I pay for cable but it's such a pain in the ass scrolling through the dozens of religious and spanish channels to find the shows and when you do locate them and set the dvr to record them, they ***** reschedule and you have ot go back through and do it all again. Who needs that *****. I watch may be 4 shows on 5 different channels out of at least 150 and two of them are on PBS. If I could get the whole ***** thing On-Demand I'd do it.
- GOVATENT, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3maybe people don't want to comment. who gives a *****.
- meruru, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3That has nothing to do with his point. I buy all my music legally but still don't like streaming services. I don't like streaming services because I like to "own" the file on my computer. With streaming services it's like you are paying to rent the song. I can still play my music if the company I bought it from goes out of business or my wireless router decides to stop working.
- Andrwmorph, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3Its much harder and you get no online play.
- Condemned, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3Hulu is great. I usually can't watch primetime TV shows when they air so it's awesome to be able to catch them later.
- ZugZugDaBoo, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3With sites like http://www.ovguide.com/ I can see why.
- neocr0n, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3The worst thing is it doesn't matter if its illegal P2P traffic or streaming video ISPs in the UK still seem to whine that everyone using the Internet too much. They actually moaned recently to BBC about their fantastic BBCiplayer service that retains all shows recently screened for a week to be viewed on-line. Some of the ISP companies even suggested BBC give them money to help them upgrade their network. The cheek of it.
- OJXs, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Lost, Flashpoint and all other shows legally and freely available online with decent quality, and this is in Canada, so I'm guessing you can stream just about anything in America.
- jawagas, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2totally agree, valve is amazing! Strong good content mixed with a ridiculously cool system.
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Their stupid skulls? More like their ***** greedy, manipulating skull. ISPs are smart in the way that they get government loans without doing ***** and just keeping the money.
- Katana314, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2It was kinda funny. My school was presenting tech articles about issues in the world. A friend did his article on DRM, and how it will rule our lives if we let it. My presentation, up next, was on Steam. I was worried he would be adverse to NEEDING to install Steam for your games, and always needing to be online. Instead, his reaction after the presentation was...
"See, THAT'S how DRM should work!!!" - T440, on 09/03/2008, -2/+4Just finished watching Lost in Translation again on Hulu.com. Don't really have anything to add to this article....just thought the timing was rather convenient.
"For relaxing times, make it Suntory time." - coheedcollapse, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Yeah, when I want to watch something, chances are I can legally stream it somewhere. Hulu is shaping up to be pretty great, although they haven't really gotten the backlog of a few higher-popularity shows going.
- twigboy, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2Its amazing you remember so many of those off the top of your head!
- coheedcollapse, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Yeah, it's pretty hilarious. A service that people pay to use complaining because they're actually *USING IT*. ISP's need to get it through their stupid skulls that they're going to need to get with the times or ***** off. The progression of the internet shouldn't be held back by a bunch of stupid corporate types that can't follow technology.
- staticfire, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2***** the law
- coheedcollapse, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Who wouldda thought? When the industry finally gets their ass in gear and expands to the internet, people stop pirating shows. This is common sense. Personally, I watch stuff once and delete it anyway, so streaming literally doesn't put me at any disadvantage when compared to downloading.
Unfortunately, with ISP's cracking down on bandwidth usage, I can't see this going much further than it already is. If they started offering all shows in HD, a lot of people might end up going over their caps. At least they can't blame their caps on curbing illegal activity if that's the case. - Mpwns, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2thx for that link. ive been just using watch-movies.net
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