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27-02-07, 11:43 AM
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Legal BitTorrent Download Portal Debuts
The creators of the BitTorrent file-sharing network have opened the doors on a legal download service. It'll be interesting to see how they go amongst the myriad of other legit download providers. Care to comment?
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27-02-07, 12:16 PM
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Legal movies...but will it beat "free" movies?
Isn't this US only too?
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27-02-07, 12:35 PM
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Looking at the prices, £2 for a new movie, ~£1.50 for an old one... I would pay that.
Illegal torrents can be hit and miss in terms of quality, sometimes they fail at 90% after 3 days of downloading...
If this service offers decent speeds I'd pay.
Companies competing against free torrents have their work cut out for them though
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27-02-07, 01:02 PM
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Its about dam time tbh. Id pay £2, hell id pay £5, to download a decent film. Its still 1/3 of what they cost to buy on DVD. The copyright people (MPAA etc) should have embrased thins LONG ago, rather than trying to shun it.
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27-02-07, 01:09 PM
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i've been doing something along the lines of this (not bit torrent) for the last couple of months with lovefilm.com (formally screenselect.co.uk). You can even rent a download. I think it works pretty well and glad to see more competition coming to market, means us comsumers will reep more benifits 
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27-02-07, 01:21 PM
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IMO it's all about convenience. As long this new service is faster and more reliable than getting it illegally, then it will be embraced by a LOT of people.
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27-02-07, 01:22 PM
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But will people paying be willing to "share" their internet connection when they've paid to download something?
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27-02-07, 01:25 PM
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But will people paying be willing to "share" their internet connection when they've paid to download something?
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they should write it into the t&cs/program, dependant on connection speed you have to seed 25, 50 or 75% or somthing.
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27-02-07, 01:29 PM
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Sounds good, but shouldn't they set up a couple of servers to seed so we don't have to seed so much?
Wonder, if you donwload at any respectable speed?
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27-02-07, 06:44 PM
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600KB/s+ would make me do it Hell even 400KB/s 
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