” Infected with Windows DRM? Ya I don’t like DRM either but you really could have used a more neutral description of what they are trying to do to preserve the content from being illegally traded.

This site is so biased you make Fox News look like journalists. Your not on a crusade for pirates rights and accept the fact that companies would like to be paid for their products/services.”
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Infected with DRM is calling it EXACTLY what it is. Cheers to TorrentFreak for calling a spade a spade. Anyone that pays even a penny for DRM INFECTED media is just pissing their money away.

And I wouldn’t blame BT Inc. too much as they did try and convince the industry to allow DRM free media. They knew that with DRM attached, the project would most likely fail but the studios insisted. It’s not Bram and BT Inc. that don’t “get it”, it’s the industry suits who still desperately cling to an obsolete business model where they were always in control.

The Dan Glickman’s and Randy Saaf’s of the world can whisper promises in their ears all they want about how the industry will crush the free flow of media but it’s just not going to happen. Their time is past and the new emeging business model will be built with or without them. As each week passes they become less and less relevant to the issue.

Seriously – what have BT inc done to uTorrent that’s so bad?

Yup, Ludde’s a dick. A smart dick, but a dick none the less. He had to know that the crappy bittorrent coders were going to run his client into the ground.

He’s not coming back, btw. Nope. He’s enjoying his cash, I’m sure.

Ain’t that the truth.

..Lol i can only imagine that that japanese emotion is saying right now.

And let me clear one of the many misunderstanding in article.
BitTorrent Inc KNEW DRM WOULD BE A PROBLEM, but they couldnt it because the partners they where trading with OUT RIGHT DEMANDED THAT THEY USE DRM!

Yep BitTorrent Inc made a bad move and it cost them their work force, the failed avoid the very thing that fuels piracy to begin with the are the pesky Serial Numbers, ungodly long registration forms that just makes people say “f*k you idiots im out of here”

Unless BitTorrent can come close to rivaling Mininova they should get the hell out of the internet or learn from Veoh Inc.

Yes it also worries me that Utorrent may be discontinued because the company that is making them has sit a slump, i do not want to shift back to Vuze with all its bloatware.

Talk about reaping what you sow.

Does that mean if the article was “BitTorrent Hires 20% More Employees”, that uTorrent is a better client?

@37 – how does it make Bram evil? The current situation means that there’s at least one full time developer improving the client (rather than just relying solely on it being developed in someone’s free time). Why is that a bad thing?

To make money, Cohen would have had to patent his system and license it to others. Of course this would have greatly hindered its growth and acceptance. The media store thing is also a flawed concept, as we all know the media cartels don’t like to do business with technology people… just look at the bullshit that went on before iTunes launched videos! They also don’t like to do business with people who are indirectly responsible for the massive upsurge in copyrighted file sharing.

Buying out uTorrent, to me at least, was confirmation that Cohen was turning evil. uTorrent was a far better client than the official BitTorrent client. You don’t buy something that’s free, except in two scenarios: either you want to destroy it to avoid competition, or somewhere down the road you expect to turn it into a profitable item. Neither outcome is good for the users.

I knew this would bite him in the ass later, and now I’m proven at least partly right.

Also, Ludde is an equally big sellout too, offering up his splendid utorrent to be raped by these goons, so let’s hope he comes back to the free software crowd with an even more superior BT client when this poor excuse of a company dies.

Putin, where’s _your_ blog.

SUSBSCSCRSCRIEB!!!1!

What?

This site is so biased you make Fox News look like journalists. Your not on a crusade for pirates rights and accept the fact that companies would like to be paid for their products/services.”

It takes a lot more journalistic integrity to call Windows DRM an infection, then it does to refer to it using effusive weasel words that sweep the malicious harm it does under the rug.

Which ironically hurts the media companies that champion it more than anyone else, because saddling their products with Personal Rights Denial and a pricetag makes them vastly inferior to the all the “illegally traded” copies offered by torrents and P2P networks. And, surprise surprise, an ever increasing number of consumers are choosing the superior option. DRM fuels piracy because it puts the end-user in chains, going as far as outright destroying media files X number of hours after hitting the Play button.

If DRM is how these companies want to be paid for their products/services, then guess what, sweetums? They are denied.

The only thing that belongs on Fox News is your snivelling corporate-apologist speak.

No problem with that. I will gladly do that …

… the second those companies get rid of all the idiot management guys that whine about “we can’t compete with free” and then do indeed try to compete with free in that they offer stuff that is MORE convinient and as a minimum AS userfriendly AS the unrestricted current “better choice(TM)” offerings.

Hint for the whinebabies, you don’t archive this goal in the way that you make your product unattractive and high on hazzle factor with playing preventing DRM shit or by pumping the money into idiot scam compaies that take your money and then try to disturb the “better choice(TM)” competition to have it look even more unattractive and more “hazzleisch” then YOUR own offerings.

You don’t win customers from the competitor by attacking/besmirching him, but by being better then him and offer the customer more value then he does!

In the pocket? They sell movies made by MPAA members…

“This site is so biased you make Fox News look like journalists. Your not on a crusade for pirates rights and accept the fact that companies would like to be paid for their products/services.”

This is a blog.

DRM = pathetic.

Why would I buy that? What are you stupid?

I’m guessin because bittorrent is probably a hated company by the entertainment industry they probably didn’t want to cut anywhere near a fair price in the first place.

Forcing DRM, other sites get around it but only because there so big the entertainment industry couldn’t dare to lose the income.

Sadly the BT model fails in the fact people don’t want to pay per peice, I think it has to be per subscription and cheap at that to stand a chance of really having some affect.

DRM should stand for dumb retarded managment for anyone that insists on useing it.

This site is so biased you make Fox News look like journalists. Your not on a crusade for pirates rights and accept the fact that companies would like to be paid for their products/services.

Mark my words, if/when the Mac version comes out, it’s going to tank. Big time. The further they take this from the genius of Ludde, the crappier it’s going to get.

It is up against free p2p.

For it to succeed it needs to give away content and make money from advertising (media sales).

It can also ensure that bit torrent is on every server and pc so allowing everyone to download rich media without clogging the internet. It could collect fees from big media for the use of its software.

Anon. BT p2p
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