Comments on: The Torrent Dilemma

By: GigaOM » 5 reasons BitTorrent Store won’t sell

GigaOM » 5 reasons BitTorrent Store won’t sell — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:02:18 +0000

[...] The torrent dilemma! Sphere Topic: Media, Startups, Featured | Tags: BitTorrent, Cachelogic, DRM, p2p [...]

By: Digitaler Film » Blog Archive » Legale Filmdownloads mit BitTorrent?

Digitaler Film » Blog Archive » Legale Filmdownloads mit BitTorrent? — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:13:11 +0000

[...] Während im Hause Warner auf spezielle Software gesetzt wird, bedienen sich andere Anbieter “etablierter” P2P Technologien. Vor allem BitTorrent bietet sich für die P2P Auslieferung von Filmdownloads an, weil es die Last geschickt verteilt und damit bei vielen Anfragen schneller und nicht langsamer wird. Nachdem der Gründer Bram Cohen $ 8,5 Millionen an venture Kapital für seine Firma BitTorrent gesammelt hatte, schaffte er letztes Jahr auch noch den Schulterschluss mit den Hollywoodstudios (der MPAA): er entfernt alle Links zu illegalen Filmdownloads von seiner Seite. Deshalb ist er mittlerweile ein gern gesehener Partner, wenn es um den P2P Vertrieb geht. Erste Gehversuche mit BitTorrent unternahm die BBC bereits im Jahr 2004. Nun ist sie soweit und testet ihr Konzept mit 5000 Kunden in Großbritannien. Doch nicht nur die BBC setzt auf BitTorrent, sondern auch NTL (ein Kabelbetreiber in GB). NTL will über BitTorrent Filme und Musikvideos verkaufen. Dazu startet nächsten Monat eine Probephase mit ca. 100 Haushalten. Um die Last von den Netzen der Internetprovider zu nehmen will NTL durch den Anbieter CacheLogic beliebte Dateien auf Servern zwischenspeichern. [...]

By: Om Malik on Broadband : » BitTorrent does legal P2P with NTL

Om Malik on Broadband : » BitTorrent does legal P2P with NTL — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:40:23 +0000

[...] ntl, a UK-based cable broadband company is teaming up with BitTorrent and Cachelogic to conduct a technical trial to evaluate ultra high-speed, legal video downloads in the UK. The trial download service will feature a large amount of licensed broadcast quality video content including popular movies, music videos and television programmes. As part of the trial, Cachelogic’s P2P content cache devices will be deployed in ntl network and will accelerate delivery of the content. BitTorrent client will be used for distribution. If this works, this could have huge implications for legal video distribution. This will also help legitimize BitTorrent, and give a big leg-up to company’s plans to distribute legal content. Clearly media players are beginning to realize that P2P is not going away, and trying to harness the technology’s potential to meet their own ends. Recently Time Warner (Germany) and AOL announced plans to tap P2P for video distribution. [...]

By: redeye

redeye — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:33:16 +0000

I’ve been fantasizing about torrent radio and video broadcasts for the little folk that can’t afford large bandwidth. “Realtime and previous” shows with tiny bandwidth. Create a proprietry player based on VLC, Bittorrent and micropayments or subscription… Makes me wonder why Peercast isn’t more popular.

By: Petabro

Petabro — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:51:18 +0000

Cohen and Ashwin are smart and honest guys. Qudos to them for bringing some legitimacy to P2P

By: bamzo.com

bamzo.com — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 05:24:31 +0000

Big Bit Torrent Announcement

I am amazed at how much press the MPAA/Bit Torrent deal received. I am sure it makes the MPAA feel all warm and fuzzy, but I believe the impact on piracy will be minimal. Just check out the chart below. TorrentSpy’s has much more traffic than …

By: The Bay Area Is Talking

The Bay Area Is Talking — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:54:24 +0000

Too Legit to Bit?

I posted about this earlier.. the deal that Bit Torrent made with the MPAA promising you won’t be able to download pirated musics on the service. Now Om Malik weighs in on the deal, agreeing with Xeni Jardin, TechDirt, and…

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:38:50 +0000

mike, you are absolutely right about that. as an aside, i wonder if the commonality of the name of the torrent protocol and the company will create confusion in the minds of less savvy users who are likely to end up at the bittorrent.com.

By: Mike Masnick

Mike Masnick — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:26:32 +0000

Yeah, it seems like a lot of people are confusing BitTorrent the protocol and BitTorrent the company. This agreement just impacts BitTorrent the company, which has little to do with most of the infringement using BitTorrent the protocol.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:17:26 +0000

Cohen’s version of Bittorrent is one of many other (IMHO better) open source versions. As long as those remain unaffected, and there is no reason why they won’t continue to be, Bittorrent as a company may wither and die, but as a protocol, it will remain strong, useful and popular.

By: Sunil Chhaya

Sunil Chhaya — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:40:21 +0000

And I thought that Shakespear wrote Hamlet way before Catch-22 was written;)

By: Tor from Opera

Tor from Opera — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:52:47 +0000

As the first browser to include BitTorrent support, we’re following these developments closely. BitTorrent is a great protocol that fits naturally with the other download protocols we support in the Opera browser (user feedback has been great). So chances are the BitTorrent protocol will survive and thrive on the merit of its quality alone.

By: Mathew

Mathew — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:34:33 +0000

I thought the agreement was a sham when I first heard about it the day it was signed, and said so on my blog. As for going legit making the network less useful, I guess maybe Bram is hoping that he can find a saw-off between fewer (copyright-infringing) users and maybe more revenue.

By: mathewingram.com/work

mathewingram.com/work — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:30:18 +0000

Hey look — we’re winning! Honest!

There’s a story on the Associated Press wire about an agreement reached between the Motion Picture Association of America and BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen & and after reading about three sentences it becomes obvious that the primary inten…