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But you can’t seed those DVDs and then get more DVDs for free. That’s what these guys let you do.[/quote]

Yeah, a free movie for 50gb of your upload bandwidth.

Oh, joy.

@24- Exactly. You don’t deal with the devil no matter how attractive the offer.

Thank you Sweden.
Good source anyway.

/Pantonamia

as soon as they found a way to stegnograph the info invisibly into the movie,

after checking some of the movie sizes, they are about a dvd, so 4gigs on average for a DL. you’d only be seeding 12 copies or so before you get a free movie, not a bad deal. we all seed already anyway.

only negative is that you can’t use uTORRENT which blows. if they changed that, even i would be on board!!

but good on them for being the first (or close to it)!!

Why should i police my friends?

[quote comment="331665"]And if you’re seeding this ‘watermarked’ copy, then it can’t be watermarked as the watermark can’t carry onto the next person, since you’d be getting the person’s info with it who seeded it to you.

Simply, your logic doesn’t work with this system.[/quote]

The watermark is added by the Headweb Download Manager. The files doesn’t receive their watermark until they are completely downloaded. The part of the file that is seeded between Headweb-users doesn’t include the watermarking.

If you for an example make a legal copy of a movie from Headweb, and send it to a friend over MSN(that’s legal fair use in Sweden, and many other countries), and that copy later find it’s way out onto the filesharing networks, the original buyer could be sued for millions in civil court, where demands for evidence are smaller then in criminal court, and the defendant with the most money and experienced usually wins.[/quote]

Trust who you give it to, then.

And if you’re seeding this ‘watermarked’ copy, then it can’t be watermarked as the watermark can’t carry onto the next person, since you’d be getting the person’s info with it who seeded it to you.

Simply, your logic doesn’t work with this system.

I, for one, think this is progress. The industry is realizing that it needs to move forward and by doing this, it’s a step in the right direction.

It takes many steps to walk a mile and even a foot of progress is better than turning around.

Also – fix the ‘posting too fast’ system to read ‘your comment is too long’.

If you for an example make a legal copy of a movie from Headweb, and send it to a friend over MSN(that’s legal fair use in Sweden, and many other countries), and that copy later find it’s way out onto the filesharing networks, the original buyer could be sued for millions in civil court, where demands for evidence are smaller then in criminal court, and the defendant with the most money and experienced usually wins.

Personally i would never purchase anything watermarked.

My CD’s aren’t watermarked, my DVD’s aren’t watermarked, and when i buy files over Internet, there is no reason why my personal information should be watermarked into the files.

The concept of watermarking files in this manor is intimidation, to scare buyers from making legal copies, and using their legal fair use rights.

The worst thing that could happen if you buy a DRM-infected file, is that it does’nt work. 1 dollar lost.

What’s the worst thing that could happen if you buy a watermarked file, it turnes up on the filesharing networks, and the MAFIAA-organisations can connect a persons identity to a file, has already been proved by the RIAA over and over again..

I don’t trust the entertainment industry enough to let my personal information be watermarked into files, do you?

If the entertainment industry trust’s you, why do they watermark the products you buy from them in the first place?

having to use proprietary download manager isnt “drm free” per se…..

u lying sweedish weasels ;

btw,is the download manager an open source ??

plus its available just a bit faster :P

Besides, the movie studios aren’t so fucking retarted as the music companies.

@ 18 I agree, but from the companies point of view – suppy & demand

It would be nice if this thing could be done at the right price world world. Its a genuine alternative.

If you want to buy a movie, dont use this service until they reduce the price by 70-80%…. its a rippoff tbh >.<

But you can’t seed those DVDs and then get more DVDs for free. That’s what these guys let you do.

You can check them out here:
http://www.ameibo.com/

Another bonus is, shipping of tShirts from the pirate bay is cheaper :p

http://www.ezee.se/
(.se = Swedish domain)

Is it just me or does noone see the huge cash cow sitting in front of the entire industry.. why is this so hard.