Comments on: DRM Killing BitTorrent.com Video Store

By: BitTorrent Shuts Down Video Store, Brings Back Search at IDTorrent Blog

BitTorrent Shuts Down Video Store, Brings Back Search at IDTorrent Blog — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:11:03 +0000

[...] and the DRM restrictions that were enforced by Hollywood were no help [...]

By: BitTorrent Shuts Down Video Store, Brings Back Search | TorrentFreak

BitTorrent Shuts Down Video Store, Brings Back Search | TorrentFreak — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:58:08 +0000

[...] go as easily as they had hoped, and the DRM restrictions that were enforced by Hollywood were no help [...]

By: BitTorrent Fires 20% of Its Employees | TorrentFreak

BitTorrent Fires 20% of Its Employees | TorrentFreak — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:40:00 +0000

[...] never was any real competition however, mainly because the movies are infected with Windows DRM. The company never wanted to use DRM. In fact, Bram Cohen told TorrentFreak in an [...]

By: BrainaicX

BrainaicX — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:00:20 +0000

DRM!
Putting good content in a locked box that is harder to open then a CD!
Since 1999!

By: Joost prepare-se: O Bittorrent vem aÃ! at Vagal.net

Joost prepare-se: O Bittorrent vem aÃ! at Vagal.net — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:31:25 +0000

[...] Parece ser uma Ã³tima companhia para o movimento DRM-Free que ataca o mundo da mÃºsica (apesar de DRM ser a palavra de ordem naÂ loja da Bittorrent [...]

By: BitTorrent to Launch Advertising Supported TV-network | TorrentFreak

BitTorrent to Launch Advertising Supported TV-network | TorrentFreak — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:25:25 +0000

[...] It is good to see that BitTorrent Inc is going for an ad-supported, instead of a pay per view model. Let’s hope that it will be more successful than the launch of their DRM infected video store. [...]

By: Burning

Burning — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:07:57 +0000

This is exactly what Peter Gutmann talked about in his now-famous article

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:31:08 +0000

Yah its pretty sad, I dont know of anybody who has actually made a purchase from the site other than those who have done so for journalistic or technical reasons.

All that fanfare and hooplah, the hugging of movie execs and the BitTorrent Inc. team while proclaiming “peace in our time.”

Yet, sadly enough, all that anybody can hear now is the faint chirping of crickets and a passing breeze.

Is it too early to say “We told you so?”

Its actually kind of said, for I know that Navin and Cohen have essentially been hamstrung in achieving their vision from the very start.

To make matters worse, if the venture does fail, which I think it will if left as is, the movie studios will use at as fodder for their arguments that digital downloads can never succeed, that its a waste of time in fact and that it can never embrace the new medium.

By: Camille

Camille — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:02:11 +0000

That’s pathetic, it’s like when you buy a dvd you have to go through an unskippable anti piracy advert. All this just confort me in my illegality.