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    BitTorrent hits big time with Warner P2P deal


    BitTorrent looks to have hit the big time with Warner Bros Home Entertainment Group (WBHEG) signing up to use the company's file-sharing technology to provide US residents with legal downloads of movies and TV programmes.

    The deal is said to follow BitTorrent's agreement with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) that it will strive to "prevent film piracy and promote innovation in online digital distribution of content" - a major turn around given that BitTorrent has been widely used for the swapping of all sorts of ripped off video, audio and software.
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    Thank the good lord!

    This a huge step towards preserving P2P and Bittorrent. Warner Brothers is setting a great precedent, and I think all companies complaining about piracy need to embrace these methods of distribution. True, perhaps the prices will differ very slightly, but the fact that they're even venturing into this market is great news.

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    But now we get new implementations of BitTorrent which are infested with DRM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mattus
    But now we get new implementations of BitTorrent which are infested with DRM.
    thanks god it's open source - isn't it? =)

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    There are several factors at play here, really.

    1. This does not legitimise Bittorrent as a medium; only as a single implementation of the medium- the studios, RIAA, etc will still happily sue (or at least attempt to) sites like the Pirate Bay, etc.

    2. This is actually just about cost reducing for Warner, as far as I can see; they get users to provide upstream bandwidth for free, and charge the same regardless of how much they use. This is only a press release, but it will be interesting to see if they attempt to implement a reward scheme for user who provide a lot of bandwidth. I doubt it however; this is probably just a means of saving bandwidth costs and simultaneouly getting some good 'geek karma'.

    3. Bittorrent is still too hard to set up for mass use. Everyone here has the knowledge and skills to understand upload capping, port forwarding and sharing ratios, but this knowledge requirement will preclude it from being a true mass market solution.

    I see schemes like this (and the Sky download and Beeb iMP players too, to a certain extent) as schemes for companies to do the bare minimum to get some revenue from IPTV. Instead of doing an Apple job of it, and providing a vertically integrated solution, they nick upload speed from end users. I know it's all egalitarian, etcetera, but they're generally not reducing prices to go with this requirement.
    Last edited by mull; 10-05-2006 at 01:19 PM.

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