stage6 rocked, does rock and will continue to rock….

wer else could u get HD freaking streaming on a network that gave you 1.5 GB/PS download speed… hell if it wasnt for the .divx format that it used to let you download it… i would’ve left torrents a long long time ago….

“until you’re appointed to staff (which wont be in this lifetime) keep your opinions to yourself. This has already caused me enough problems and i’m telling you i’m ready to hit the ban button on some ppl.”

last i looked – takes members to make an admin.

dont call me stoopid because i follow the herd, i am a bottom feeder, when there is no more butt i look for another butt i dont go to college and get smart

DONT call me lazy, i am reading your fukin blogg! just show me the way to go

If you think industrialization was rash and bad for the environment, just consider the cluster-fuck that advertising is causing in (y)our heads.

Weapons grade psy-ops in everyones home every day, on billboards every day, in our papers every day, on our radio every day, even rammed into your letter box and inbox.

It does not matter if it is the latest hip,subtle $250 Millon ad campaign for BMW or a 0.01 cent unsolicited bulk email for cialis; it is all designed to subvert your autonomy.

adblock and p2p help me keep these souless shits away. However this is all mute when you consider assholes such as http://www.phorm.com/

ps JJK thank you very much for the article. So refreshing to read a principled point of view.

a total cop out; considering the potential.

either come up with a decent alternative or get out…

Gallus

[quote comment="307115"]Adverts are the easiest way “free” content can be profitable. So long as they are not annoying I see no harm in adverts.[/quote]

Advertisement = annoying. Always. By definition.

Regarding the people who cannot find high quality content, I really have to wonder whether you realize what “TorrentFreak” is about. It’s really not that hard and no it’s not GooTube.[/quote]

actually, LOLZ!!!

Good one, guy!

Being stupid is no excuse for continued stupidity. Learn to use a search engine, jackass.

Something I’ve never seen anyone else mention; Stage6 used a 7-digit number to identify files. This means that the site was limited to 9,999,999 videos total. That might sound like a lot, but for a video sharing site, it really isn’t.

I don’t agree that streaming video is dying or needs to. The concept of instantly previewing a film is great in my opinion.

I might love bit torrent for multiple files, massive files, or an extremely popular file. But not a quick little clip. Or a trailer.

Maybe I’ve got it all wrong? Can’t say I’ll lose any sleep over their demise if it’s on the cards.

No matter what you say, Stage6 was good. It was better than good. It offered great high quality divx video for free. No where else on the internet could you find HD streaming, except here.

[quote comment="307240"][quote comment="307116"]hmm…BT based streaming[/quote]

It’s called Vuze.[/quote]

Vuze is not streaming, it is download.

People are calling Stage6 a nightmare. Why? You don’t have to use it. Even BT based applications like Joost do not offer HD streaming, and nothing else compared. Admittedly the search was terrible, but we had http://www.tv-links.cc/ for tv shows and google for everthing else.

However, despite all that Stage6 achieved, it was doom to fail. The average file size was 255mb (divx) (compared to 7.4mb for youtube (flv)). No one can stream HD using a centralised server system cheaply, bittorrent was good for that, but since they were willing to pay this huge sum of money per month, the streaming is almost as good as bittorrent.

In memoriam, Stage6.

>24
Old movies are public domain and you can find them on archive.org

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Learn to scene/torrent correctly and you wont be downloading them bogus fakes.

BT is great for movies, but half of what is available are bogus fakes and crappy cam versions (who the fuck watches cams anyway?)

Regarding the people who cannot find high quality content, I really have to wonder whether you realize what “TorrentFreak” is about. It’s really not that hard and no it’s not GooTube.

where else on the net can you find HIGH QUALITY video? youtube sucks in that department hands down.

It is pretty useless to compare the costs of running a tracker compared to a media distribution site… While the tracker replies a few bytes for the announcing, the stage6 servers had to push gigabits of videos.. If TPB had seed boxes to aid a smooth video streaming over bittorrent, the cost of running it would quickly increase as well..
Now im not saying stage6 was good… I’m just saying, live video streaming over bittorrent is not feasible. We would end up with maybe a 1000 watchable clips which have a lot of seeds, and everything else would be buffering at 4KB/s…

The cricket is amongst the worst ever of all time, as after every over there is a half min break where we get tortured by an endless barrage of bloody-minded ads. There’s only 2 or 3 shown continually which are hand selected to inflict the most harmful psychological brainwashing.

I am so switched out that I only remember one, which is the insidious TAC, the insurer that doesn’t care, because they steal from everyone and its compulsory and then waste their money on hateful spiteful ads purporting to show the consequences of speeding (1k over) and drink driving (just a little over), or not wearing a seat belt. Nowhere have I ever seen scenes of road accidents where the victims WERE said to be wearing seat belts, and were killed BECAUSE of it, which in fact happens regularly.

It’s called Vuze.

It would have to be a very small amount per torrent though, as it quickly adds up.

I suggest detailed help for all those like myself who don’t use credit cards. Otherwise you can’t expect the support from many.

So long as the money never supported the music or movie industry in any way shape or fashion, including royalties. I’d need to see a sworn oath to that effect.

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

Haven’t used Stage6, so the following is just a philosophical perspective.

I am a student, boarding at school, and don’t have a TV for various reasons. I read, I download TV or buy it on DVDs, I borrow movies from friends, I go for walks.
But I do have access to a TV in the common area; sometimes I’ll watch it when eating, often as not, I’ll skip it. I often go for 1-3 weeks without seeing any television.
And when I do see it, I am always blown away; how did I ever put up with this crap? How did ANYONE put up with this crap? The ONLY plausible reason I can intelligently accept, is that we didn’t know any better.
TV is adware. And it is NOT subtle about it; in fact, it is disgustingly un-subtle about it.

For instance, I watched the end of the Colbert Report; it was followed by about 3 minutes of ads.
Then I watched the South Park intro theme; which was followed by 3 minutes of ads.
Then I watched 5 minutes of South Park, followed by 3 minutes of ads.
Then I watched 6 minutes of South park, followed by 2 minutes of ads.
The advertising dosage I was receiving was absolutely insane!

Usually I watch South Park streaming, or I download a season on Friday and watch them on Saturday; they are pretty funny, and turns out there are some pretty sharp points and morals buried under the toilet humor.
Under the conditions of only watching a couple of hours TV every couple of weeks, I would gladly sit down at the dining room table, have put down a quarter/2 quarters/a dollar, and said to the guy in the suit “make the advertisements disappear”; but that’s impossible.

What is needed to break media from its mafIAA abusers has already been done, its just under legal fire.
What is needed to legalize it, for now and for the future, is finish breaking the mold*;

a) have any media on demand anytime, anywhere, from any source, etc
b) have a method of legally paying for it, where 100% of the money goes directly to the content creator and not the distributor, and where instead of only “THE BIG FOUR” content producers, we have access to EVERY content producer.

Give us content, to anything we want, from anyone we want, whenever we want it. We will fund it with our patronage [I will gladly pay $1-2 dollars to fund a good media creation, assuming I get unlimited access to it forever after].

The distribution is free, the content creators can be anyone, and the content funders should be US, ie WE THE PEOPLE [sorry; and I'm not even american:)]. The last part of this puzzle is distribution, and its ALREADY FREE!!!

*That’s right big guys, shake in your booties; the creation-technology, distribution-technology, and consumption-technology is already in the hands of the people. You keep on trying to suppress our final technology, patron-technology [e-cash]; it will come with or without you, and better without. As the last part of the technology-puzzle, it will finally succeed in cutting you entirely out of the loop.

BBC iPlayer is funded by us, the UK licence fee payer. Its basically a nice little tool to catch up on episodes of tv programs you’ve missed. Had been testing it for a while under the guise of a diffrent name before they launched it.

Sad to see Stage6 shutdown. To be fair I had watched quite a few tv episodes through it as like another person said it was alot quicker/easier/convienant to watch a stream rather than having to wait for it to download first (in a torrent case at least)

I quote: “There’s lots of speculation around why DivX is shutting the site down, ranging from piracy issues to the spiraling CDN costs of streaming all that HD content. But what really happened, according to multiple sources, is that a ridiculous battle of egos at the DivX board level caused most of the team to simply quit. DivX, essentially, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.”

You could at least give that a mention instead of simply asserting piracy and inneficiency were to blame, and that there is no future for these kinds of sites.

As for your larger point about P2P and lean-back media: I tentatively agree. There are so many factors at play that it’s hard for me to look at the picture and focus only on P2P, and I can’t say much without digressing into wider perspectives and speculation.

Google video have some videos you can download as an mp4. However 9/10 times
the audio comes out of sync. Too bad because the videos do look nice.

I have been trying to re-sync the videos with no luck.