Re:60 Minutes - Pirates of the Internet (2003) ... your thou...
by froo on Friday May 08, 2009 @01:57AM
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The strangest thing about me for all the brouhaha over piracy is how few people so far seem to have found a way -- or even wanted to find a way -- to capitalize on the best, fastest, easiest distribution system in the world.
To be fair, I think there is a clear distinction between piracy and p2p networks.
For example, Blizzard uses bittorrent to distribute patches for World of Warcraft, reducing load on their servers and thus, cost for them.
They were also (funnily enough) a relative early adopter of the Divx format back when it was almost exclusively used for movie sharing over the internet (aka Piracy)
Re:60 Minutes - Pirates of the Internet (2003) ... your thou...
by rms on Friday May 08, 2009 @02:13AM
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It's been a long time coming but Waffles blows Napster away. I have three invites for people reading this; please email me. Please do not accept the invitation if you do not plan on being a dedicated user of the service, the invites are limited enough that it is a shame for them to be wasted.
And there's the fact that computers are basically made to duplicate data, and we have whole industries trying to stop the very nature of computers and networks.
I don't think I will ever understand human nature.
But I sure miss Napster, and would've paid $50+ a month for that service alone. The record industry was just mentally deficient not to capitalize on that, no matter what Matt Maroon thinks about their intelligence.