Warner Bros goes to BitTorrent
Interesting news… It looks some headmaster finally recognized the power of peer to peer applications. Warner Brothers is to become the first Hollywood studio to provide movies on BitTorrent, the popular peer-to-peer platform. From this summer, BitTorrent users will be able to buy Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Corpse Bride and North Country. Older films such as Natural Born Killers, The Matrix or Dog Day Afternoon will also be available. Warner Brothers’ offerings on BitTorrent will be loaded with special digital rights management software, locking the files from being distributed illegally. That means that while BitTorrent will take advantage of users’ bandwidth to redistribute the bits and pieces of the movie files to other paying customers, it will be impossible for users to share files with their friends, unless those friends pay up.
“We have to create a legitimate service that meets consumer expectations or else they’re going to get it elsewhere. BitTorrent has made the leap in creating a legal partnership that respects the value of the intellectual property. This has provided us with a next-generation platform for the distribution of our films and TV programs.”
said Kevin Tsujihara, president of Warner Brothers. “BitTorrent has shown us that they have very good filtering technology. But nothing’s perfect, and we know that.” Good decision guys. Should I make you some special upload account? I’m sure this protection will be cracked anyway as CSS and many others, so it’s your chance 
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Here is the big question, the hurdle to get over :
many ISP’s cap users, many ISP’s choke traffic when they recognise P2P usage, many ISP’s are moving onto 8meg lines yet still telling you that you can only sneeze down their lines before they start shouting at you.
So here you pay for bandwidth, pay for a film, then pay for more bandwidth to get the film down. Someone is going to have to be working hard behind the scenes reassessing bandwidth usage, costs and cost of films, since the cost of delivery of films is now expected to be handled by the user. This should surely reduce the pricing of those films?
If you can’t beat em join em eh Warner Bros? lol
Does anyone ever understand Mr D? He makes statements that look like they have some meaning, but really they are a load of psycho babble usually, and foxes wtf are you talking about too you idiot. Most persons here talk crap a lot of the time. Verbal shitmouths, maybe I had a bad day but don’t talk crap dudes it’s offensive.
I don’t think that’s going to work to well. If someone pays to download a movie, they’re going to want to be able to download it fast and easy, with not having to hope there’s enough seeders, or wasting their own bandwidth to share it.
Oddly enough, WB is the only company that’s ever threatened me with legal action for downloading one of their movies.
[quote]Does anyone ever understand Mr D? He makes statements that look like they have some meaning, but really they are a load of psycho babble usually, and foxes wtf are you talking about too you idiot. Most persons here talk crap a lot of the time. Verbal shitmouths, maybe I had a bad day but don’t talk crap dudes it’s offensive.[/quote]
hahaha, you must be having a bad day because the posts above and below you are simply similarly themed to what I was saying.
But I am glad in a way that legal downloads are using BT, as it means certain ISP’s will have to stop choking those packets they identify as BT usage and increase bandwidth allowances for people across the board.
Only one player using BT to distribute legal stuff ain’t imho enough pressure for ISPs to stop choking the P2P traffic. The otherway around this problem is just to crypt all the BT traffic which I think will propably happen if more and more ISP start to choke packets based on traffic analysis.
there is actually pretty many big companies now that use bittorrent, Blizzard Entertainment for example.
I give the service a week or two before someone figures out how to bypass their protection system.