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Napster : Napster 2.0 :: BitTorrent : whatever the hell this is.]]>May 9th 2006 5:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/May 9th 2006 5:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/May 9th 2006 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/May 9th 2006 6:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/
There are a lot of people using services like iTunes to download music when they could be getting it for free from filesharing networks.]]>May 9th 2006 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/
The other stuff, like the pricing, will probably come around to sane levels later.]]>May 9th 2006 6:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/May 9th 2006 6:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/
Even though this new, legal use of bittorrent is supported by a professional company, the quality of the downloads you get is in no way offset by the fact that they control what you can do with it even once you've bought it.]]>May 9th 2006 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/
It's all unfair and biased towards big business.

Hollywood sucks and is full of pussies. Its the only way they can make money cuz we all know there is nothing fresh coming out of Hollywood.]]>May 9th 2006 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/ if I heard correctly, I think you can burn a copy to a DVD, but they will apply some kind of protection that only allows use on the same PC that was used to burn it. How long will it take for somebody to break this? I'm guessing a month!]]>May 9th 2006 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/
I'm pretty sure you can already vid-cap such a video stream to a file if your machine's got the guts (and since I used to do it on my old Athlon 1.2ghz [with legally purchased content mind you] I think most machines today could handle it). There was/is of course some degredation in quality, but as pointed out above, like as not the movie sucks anyway...

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That has got to be the funniest thing I've read in a week. You're tellng me someone thinks they have an *enforcable patent* of Upload Ratios?

Bwahaahahaha....thats HILARIOUS :)

"Good Luck with THAT!"

-K]]>May 9th 2006 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/
Abstract of WO2005038617
Methods and computer systems for increasing the revenue stream from a work made available in digital form are provided. The methods and systems of the invention are particularly useful for musical, video, interactive game files, and artistic or commercial works that can be digitally copied and transferred or distributed, such as via the Internet. Embodiments of the present invention advantageously can form part of a greater system that provides access to digital forms of numerous works or groups of works, such as those that are copyrighted, to thereby extend the revenue-producing capabilities for the copyright holder of digital or digitized works to bona fide purchasers of those works. In turn, bona fide purchasers of a work who later provide copies of that work or other authorized works, or provide transfer or distribution bandwidth with respect to that work or other authorized works may receive incentives. Advantageously, no central warehouse of digital content is necessary with the present methods, and users may introduce authorized content into the present system in a controlled manner, through peer-to-peer systems, while realizing economic incentives for doing so. The present systems and methods also provide a myriad of embodiments of incentive and apportioning payment schedules, configurations and properties

http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=WO2005038617&F=0

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While I don't always agree with the gatekeeping actions of Hollywood and have downloaded a couple of shows I couldn't get otherwise, let's be clear and agree that however you want to categorize what is being downloaded, the studio does own the bits and they are within their rights to expect some form of payment.

If you are going to rant, at least make sure it is relevant.]]>May 9th 2006 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/May 9th 2006 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/09/warner-bros-to-team-with-bittorrent-for-movie-sales/May 10th 2006 1:09AM