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BitTorrent a headache for Hollywood
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Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Globaltechnology.com has some info on Hollywood's growing anxiety over Bittorrent.
Because of its speed and effectiveness, BitTorrent steadily gained in popularity after the recording industry began cracking down last year on users of Kazaa, Morpheus, Grokster and other established file-sharing software.
The program now accounts for as much as half of all on-line file-sharing activity, says Andrew Parker, chief technology officer of Britain-based CacheLogic, which monitors such traffic.
"BitTorrent is more of a threat because it is probably the latest and best technological tool for transferring large files like movies," said John Malcolm, senior vice-president of anti-piracy operations for the Motion Picture Association of America. "It is unusual, perhaps unique, in that the moment you start downloading you are also uploading," he added. "It's what makes it so efficient."
Posted by: AOTY2KB
Where Bit Torrents stop, Exeem shall begin.....
That is where the fun shall begin in seeing the effectivess of corporate gluttony and control.
Posted by: SKYHN
"It is unusual, perhaps unique, in that the moment you start downloading you are also uploading,"
Thats not true. I myself use BT to get TV Shows. I used to have a PVR, but it no longer works. So Im downloading something I would have made myself anyways(therefore I dont see any illegality of it). I use Azureus BT client. While it does upload while you download, theres ways of stopping that. Such as a 3rd party program that limits your upload speed.
The thing about piracy is it CANNOT be stopped. You can throw everything at it, it may slow down if at all, but it cannot be stopped. The measures it would take to stop piracy are too extreme. Meanwhile you have the RIAA and MPAA to the point where their making up numbers to get the government more involved. Its not 1/4th as bad as their showing.
I think if the RIAA and MPAA didnt have CRAP for a product in the past 2 or 3 years, they wouldnt be complaining. $128 million to make Alexander, and it bombed worse than a Kevin Costner movie. Wheres piracy to blame on that? So many movies and albums bombed this year.
I dont see the GOOD movies and music suffering from Piracy. Ushers Album sold about a bajillion copies, broke all kinds of records. Then they re-released it and it still did good. Piracy? The Bourne Supremacy, Spiderman 2, wheres the piracy there?
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
What's really stupid is piracy never hurt music sales. And it won't affect DVD sales either. If anything, I baught some DVD's I would have normally avoided but I liked them enough to buy them after I watched them.
The ones who really get hurt by file swapping are game developers.
Posted by: AOTY2KB
If the fat of the RIAA and MPAA were to be trimmed so producers were to take much less of the pie and leave beathing room for the artists, the price could easily drop a few bucks. That and cut the bull in the music videos.
I would be happy if they wouldn't freak out so much about people tweaking the music to their own preferences. Let the creativity flow...
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