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Has anyone come across the various movie/ music sites based on BitTorrent, a new type of p to p, which, they claim, allows legal downloads for a yearly fixed fee of approx. $40??
Sounds too good to be true.
Sounds too good to be true.
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Sounds too good to be true.
Bittorrent is a very good idea, and has plenty of legal uses - which could include film downloads. However, AFAIK, it's too much of a leap forwards for the film companies to contemplate at the moment.
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Many Bittorrent sites have been shut down recently too. I haven't heard of a legal method of distributing movies using Bittorrent yet. The closest thing I have heard about is Netflix, but that still deals with physical DVDs.
One day the move and music industries will wake up and see the light. Whether or not the current labels or film studios survive to see that day remains to be seen.
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One day the move and music industries will wake up and see the light. Whether or not the current labels or film studios survive to see that day remains to be seen.
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The "problem" with Kazaa is that despite statements on the Kazaa homepage that it contains NO spyware, many (including a recent Computer Associates study) continue to report that it does!!!
Read more on this here.
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Read more on this here.
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Technically Kazaa the program is legal, or at least hasn't been made illegal, like every other file sharing program. The problem is people are sharing files on Kazaa that they do not have the right to share. At least in the US. In Canada it is in a grey area right now (you are allowed to make your own copies of friend's CDs, but no one has said if this goes for filesharing too).
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It probably comes from them trying to cover development costs and provide a more reliable and faster network than something like the older Gnutella network did. But they do seem to be basing their business model off of people sharing copyrighted material.
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Anyone here tried using e-mule? I like it and there's no spyware on it. It's useful to read some reviews on it to understand how it works (it's based on a credit system - you get out what you put in) before actually using it.
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