Movie industry looks toward BT as possible video distribution method (11)

1 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-04-19 18:33 ID:8eHbDip7

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Movie_industry_looks_toward_bitTorrent_as_possible_video_distribution_method
According to Dr. Vinton Cerf, a few movie producers have talked about using filesharing such as bitTorrent for the distribution of video content.

Ironically, the movie industry has been suing people for file sharing for years now. In the end, this same technology might save the movie industry millions.

2 Name: 404 - Name Not Found 2005-04-19 18:37 ID:Heaven

Reasonable and intelligent approaches?

What?

That's not my American Movie industry!

3 Name: 返信 2005-04-20 00:10 ID:l0bhp72J

i smell a napster comming

4 Name: 404 - Name Not Found 2005-04-20 09:32 ID:l5TI1aNF

There's nothing about bittorrent that inherently ignores copyright, any more than (eg) http does. I don't see the issue here.

5 Name: 404 - Name Not Found 2005-09-23 20:45 ID:s0TICrg7

Why would anyone seed if they had to pay to download?

6 Name: 404 - Name Not Found 2005-09-23 21:01 ID:wRmzacEK

>>5
I dunno, but this doesn't sound any more crazy than, say, iTunes or something.

Of course it will suck but it'll probably be convenient enough to get pushed into success with a good marketing campaign.

7 Name: 404 - Name Not Found 2005-09-24 07:23 ID:Heaven

We should start a pool on how much DRM and restrictions they'll apply.

8 Name: 404 - Name Not Found 2005-09-24 19:10 ID:L0aUAMPW

It could work, but it depends on a lot of factors, mostly price. iTunes works because songs are so cheap to download (.99) and you know the quality will be good, etc.

If movies were legally downloadable for a small price and the quality was good... people would do it, I think. It just has to be an easy process. But the whole drm stuff is just a mess, and I don't see them giving up on it anytime soon. Also the rental market probably wouldn't like it, hehe.

For now things will probably just continue on as they are (=´∇｀=)...

9 Name: 404 - Name Not Found 2005-09-25 11:01 ID:Heaven

How about $5-$10 for a movie? Unlimited viewings, usable on up to 3 devices? I think this might be something they might use.

The other thing though is that warez monkies tend to get DVD-rips out quicker than Holywood...

10 Name: 404 - Name Not Found 2005-09-25 15:56 ID:L0aUAMPW

>>9
Yeah... things getting 'leaked' early has pretty much become standard fare these days, hehe. Be it games, movies, whatever.

But even with broadband becoming more widespread, the "average joe" probably still has no idea how to go about downloading a dvd-rip. So it is still easier to just buy the dvds (which are still selling extremely well). I think that will continue on, at least for a while.

I could see the studios making some sort of iTunes-like 'portal', where you have a yearly access fee, and can download anything you want. That could be alright.

11 Name: Gilliam!F73v.WtXdM 2005-10-04 09:17 ID:z2cpAOTZ

"...record companies fighting file-sharing technology which they say is costing it billions."
1 stop fighting
2 save millions
3 profit

lol sorry to be cliche(up there^) but they are spending millions to stop piracy likely worth less than they are puting in to fight it. also if "artists" cared more about making their listeners happy instead of trying to roll in bling, well happy customers will make you more profit than [insert what riaa does here]

i want to see a big name artist(rap/country/rock/jazz/whatever) step up and put out an album for cheap or free and maybe even include an opensource/free cd duplicator program to help listeners share the music(and tell the artist how many times its been duplicated), and have a donations-like way for people who like the music to support the artist directly w/out the middleman music industry. oops didnt mean to rant, this would of course apply to the movie industry too.

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