BitTorrent Legit Service Launches 158
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.
There wasn't legitimate bittorrent before? (Score:4, Informative)
So I watched the Oscars last night... (Score:5, Informative)
When I saw this announcement, I went to the site and saw they they had a few movies I wanted to see. Not such a bad selection, and even some free stuff! Hell I'd pay for it if its a reasonable price, I thought.
I clicked on a movie to see how much it would cost to download and watch. $3.99 to "Rent". Oh shit, I thought to myself. Rent. That means, DRM. I looked at the bottom of the page:
Well. Funny, I don't USE windows. Hm, guess I'm not part of their target demographic. Oh well, I'll just head over to isohunt then, or walk down to the movie store and get something older. I'm a little disappointed, but
Re:WMP only??? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:There wasn't legitimate bittorrent before? (Score:3, Informative)
i.e., "Intellectual Property"
Re:There wasn't legitimate bittorrent before? (Score:4, Informative)
There's a world of difference between what "intellectual property" means in that 200+ year old document and what "intellectual property" means today.
Re:So I watched the Oscars last night... (Score:4, Informative)
How many of customers of this service want to watch movies on their computer? Pretty safe bet to say 100%.
Macs have about 4% market share overall, linux around 3%. (from some quick googling). Though I'd say its a safe bet that the kind of people who want to watch movies on their computers are more likely to be running osx/linux (also consider setups like mythTV boxes). So maybe 10% of their possible market? more?
Either way, the issue isn't quite as insignificant as you tried to make it seem.