BitTorrent Inc. Video Store

Written by Ernesto on March 02, 2006 

BitTorrent inc. is planning a video download website to distribute movies online. According to BitTorrent’s spokesman Lily Lin her company is currently negotiating with several content owners. This move is not really a big surprise after the announced collaboration with the MPAA and a british cable company.
BitTorrent co-founder and President Ashwin Navin states:
“We want [...]

BitTorrent inc. is planning a video download website to distribute movies online. According to BitTorrent’s spokesman Lily Lin her company is currently negotiating with several content owners. This move is not really a big surprise after the announced collaboration with the MPAA and a british cable company.

BitTorrent co-founder and President Ashwin Navin states:

“We want to aggregate video and other content and make it available in a legal and sanctioned area”

But they wont go into detail about the plan, and remain vague:

“It’s going to run the gamut because we don’t have limited shelf space” Navin says

We’ll see.

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10 Responses

1 Mar 02, 2006 at 21:57 by Mark

This will never fly. Especially with all the ISP’s throttling BT. Waiting a week for a movie to d/l just isn’t going to cut it.

(sarcastic mode off)

2 Mar 02, 2006 at 22:15 by Soulxlight

I don’t know…I have fate in the future of Bittorrent. The throttling problem is solved for now with the new encryption in Azureus and uTorrent. Well at least I know it works in the beta version of uTorrent, don’t really use Azureus very much. Anyway I hope they get this cleared up, and I hope it is not a hold lot of old movies that no one wants to see anyway… ^_^

3 Mar 02, 2006 at 22:17 by iceman

Well god bless bram cohen for inventing the bittorrent protocol but the bad news is he has made a deal the deal with the devil himself MPAA and RIAA.But no prob for ppl like us bcoz as long as users r there r gonna be sites which r gonna host bittorrent files for free and many free clients like Azureus and utorrent to help pirates likes us.Also countries like seweden and russia don’t give shit bout piracy and thts good for us.Basically these Riaa’s and Mpaa’s r the real leechers of money who want money for everything.Well i hope they rot in hell

4 Mar 03, 2006 at 00:36 by ukaze

If someone could help me here im a bit confused…we all know how the bittorrent works so why i am i going to pay to then have to upload to someone else. The company ntl can suck my natz if the think im not only going to pay for the serive they provide and there movies and then upload them to someone i cant see how this going to work. I understand while i download i may have to upload (though been as im paying i dont see why). Yes bram has done a deal with the devil and now they want us to work for them but hey its a step in the right direction.

5 Mar 03, 2006 at 00:42 by Ernesto

Ukaze, If everyone brings in a little bandwidth the company offering the movie downloads saves A LOT of money.

This would mean that the service can be a lot cheaper. That would be your advantage.

6 Mar 03, 2006 at 01:37 by ukaze

but why i can get 3 dvds of itv rental for 15 pound a month 3 every time i send them back i get 3 more all for 15 pound why bother with this. At least i can copy them and keeps for ever.

7 Mar 04, 2006 at 17:00 by Big Balls

Ukaze- it totally depends on whether the movies we get through BitTorrent are able to be saved and burned to DVD or not. However- if the MPAA is smart, they’ll try to minimize file size while maximising movie quality (i.e. using H.264 compression or any other very advanced video codec).

BitTorrent + MPAA + Good compression = the future. It’s that simple. People are already doing it illegally- why not do it legally for a lower price, faster download speeds, and better quality? Hell I’d be glad to pay a few dollars to download a movie quickly and in great quality.

8 Mar 05, 2006 at 23:35 by Chris

MPAA are greedy and ignorant…
Il live in Italy and now in Public Libraries they BORROW AT NO COST movies, including the best and several of the newest released DVDs, that of course apart VHS… What I at last want to say is that these sites, as much as the torrent itself is a new way of enhancing personal culture and nobody must fight back but learn to work aside it.
And one last but not least thing I want to say is; Many people who download many things, including any apps, movies or music if it weren’t free, probably would never get to have it. I download several things as well, but if it were to be based on my financial situation, I would not possess not a bit of it.

9 Mar 05, 2006 at 23:41 by Chris

another thing… now that people got all this for free up to now, they set a mental position which will automatically disagree on purchasing any 10010111010101101 shit… thats like if u alway give cute stuff to a kid and expect nothing back, that kid will forever expect stuff for free.
I’m curious to know how the situation will evolve… ?!?!

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