BitTorrent Legit Service Launches

The launch of the BitTorrent Entertainment Network came out today; there's the AP write-up, which is decent enough but the interview with Bram about it is more interesting. Tangentially, the the education of lawmakers on video DRM is an interesting countweight to all this.

Re:WMP only???

[Anonymous Coward]

Until they fix the DRM problem, there's always this alternative: http://thepiratebay.org/ [thepiratebay.org].

Re:There wasn't legitimate bittorrent before?

[stubear]

"Copyrights are not a legitimate property right."

That's funny. There's this 200+ year old document that people like you accuse President Bush of trashing yet you seem toconveniently forget that intellectual property rights were included even before amendments were proposed. There are even older documents in Europe which grant intellectual property rights as well. Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with these before making such a bold claim that is simply not true. You may not like them but it doesn't make them illegitimate. I don't like that I can't punch people like you in the face, perhaps I can ignore that law and claim it's an illegitimate restraint of human nature and primal urges to beat the crap out of the weaker of the species.

Re:This service is totally useless

[Anonymous Coward]

This service is totally useless...
The files are Windows-only.

Yeah, because nobody uses Windows anymore...

Re:Limited selection?

[Cheapy]

You actually want American Idol?

Consider it a service for them not having it!

Great!

[inexplicable_fool]

Finally there's a way of getting DRMed WMV files to me that costs the content distributor less! Thank God, now they can afford enough ammo to hunt the poor with.