Legal BitTorrent Download Portal Debuts

[PV5150]

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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[FarFarAway]

Legal movies...but will it beat "free" movies?

Isn't this US only too?

 

[Mr. Smith]

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

 

[Ham]

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.

 

[nathan]

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

 

[JN]

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.

 

[FarFarAway]

But will people paying be willing to "share" their internet connection when they've paid to download something?

 

[Ham]

But will people paying be willing to "share" their internet connection when they've paid to download something?

they should write it into the t&cs/program, dependant on connection speed you have to seed 25, 50 or 75% or somthing.

 

[Toxcity]

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?

 

[mrapoc]

600KB/s+ would make me do it Hell even 400KB/s

 

[Toxcity]

WoOt!

All the torrents I have downloaded in the past have sucked.

like 20K/bs... which is SLOW!

 

[mrapoc]

eek, wot isp are you on hope they are legal downloads

 

[Dav0s]

nice post PV

tbh if i was paying for something, id like to be able to download it from a web server rather than rely on others to ass matt said, share their connection with me

also BTE are in for a big surprise when they have to give technical support to people who cant get a decent speed, but demand help because they paid for the download.

AND TO BE A BIG MEANIE MOD, CAREFUL THAT WHAT YOU SAY DOESNT BREACH THE T&C, REMEMBER NONE OF YOU DOWNLOAD ILLEGALLY THROUGH TORRENTS...DO YOU :ar:

 

[Toxcity]

AND TO BE A BIG MEANIE MOD, CAREFUL THAT WHAT YOU SAY DOESNT BREACH THE T&C, REMEMBER NONE OF YOU DOWNLOAD ILLEGALLY THROUGH TORRENTS...DO YOU :ar:

sigh, silly - love dave x

Plus I like to feel special and have the case of Music/game/Movie.. Don't ask why.. You can't boast about haveing all the Iron maiden albums if you haven't really got them!

 

[nathan]

i download iso's (linux distro's) from newsgroups, i normally get 750kbs download speed. I think there are other ways quicker the bit torrent. Mind you, i dont think there any that are cheaper to run.

 

[Toxcity]

Sorry dave... I guess your not allowed to say the L word..

Apologies..

 

[NickS]

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.

You guys in UK get affected by the MPAA? :crazy:

 

[nathan]

You guys in UK get affected by the MPAA? :crazy:

its not the mpaa, we have are own sort of people, cant remember what there called. But im guessing all these organisations work together.

 

[NickS]

Probably. Our's are the stupidest IMO. The RIAA accused some small family who didn't own a computer, of "stealing" music. They turned around and sued the RIAA big.

 

[PP Mguire]

AND TO BE A BIG MEANIE MOD, CAREFUL THAT WHAT YOU SAY DOESNT BREACH THE T&C, REMEMBER NONE OF YOU DOWNLOAD ILLEGALLY THROUGH TORRENTS...DO YOU

Probably. Our's are the stupidest IMO. The RIAA accused some small family who didn't own a computer, of "stealing" music. They turned around and sued the RIAA big.

Dude tbh that is pure pwnage.