Comments on: Mininova Closes Distribution Deal for TV-Show

By: comedy film

comedy film — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:15:19 +0000

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By: Canzoni32

Canzoni32 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:01:30 +0000

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By: Leading BitTorrent Admins Discuss The Future of BitTorrent | TorrentFreak

Leading BitTorrent Admins Discuss The Future of BitTorrent | TorrentFreak — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:18:00 +0000

[...] content producers recognize more and more the advantages of P2P distribution models (see e.g. the Pariah Island case). We all know that DRM is close-to-death, and major studios are now rethinking their business [...]

By: horowitcz

horowitcz — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:31:36 +0000

[quote comment="201000"]What a fucking bunch of sellouts. Fuck Mininova.[/quote]

lol! well put. /nod

By: Cheydal

Cheydal — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:56:59 +0000

[quote comment="204342"]It must be you, the show concept is funny and dark. This is just the masterminds idea of looking way into the future. Don’t knock it. I have seen “behind the scenes” besides who would have thought to put a child at the head of it all, just to freak out the adults playing the “game”
[quote comment="200777"][quote]Is it just me, or does that show look terrible? No one else would distribute it so I think they had to rely on some random internet site. I’m sure the fans of ‘epic movie’ and what not will disagree with me.[/quote]

It could either be good or bad (or people’s opinions could vary extremely). It’s best not to judge a show before watching it.

Who would have thought a misanthropic doctor named House played by George from Blackadder would make a good show, until watching it? :P[/quote]
[quote comment="200551"]Will be interesting to see how this turns out, if people will seed it enough to be useful.

Another good tracker to find legal shows on is http://www.LegitTorrents.info/quote/quote

By: Cheydal

Cheydal — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:45:35 +0000

It must be you, the show concept is funny and dark. This is just the masterminds idea of looking way into the future. Don’t knock it. I have seen “behind the scenes” besides who would have thought to put a child at the head of it all, just to freak out the adults playing the “game”
[quote comment="200777"][quote]Is it just me, or does that show look terrible? No one else would distribute it so I think they had to rely on some random internet site. I’m sure the fans of ‘epic movie’ and what not will disagree with me.[/quote]

It could either be good or bad (or people’s opinions could vary extremely). It’s best not to judge a show before watching it.

Another good tracker to find legal shows on is http://www.LegitTorrents.info/quote

By: Honeynova » Blog Archive » Mininova Closes Distribution Deal for TV-Show

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:55:11 +0000

[...] Mininova announce the first official deal to distribute a TV-show on the popular BitTorrent site.read more | digg story Posted by admin Filed in [...]

By: Joey

Joey — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:23:57 +0000

nice,I enjoyed pirate master myself
looking forward to this show as a exisiting user of mininova already
good job mininova

By: Reid

Reid — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:48:38 +0000

I usually avoid reality shows like the plague, but will check this one out because it’s supporting BitTorrent.

By: name

name — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:11:49 +0000

as mininova has no trackers is it still going to go on thepiratebay’s trackers and just be “advertised” on mininova?

By: Miguel

Miguel — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:48:11 +0000

Another production company (from Argentina no less) already did this … back in 2005.
Rather than lob their videos onto someone else’s torrent aggregator, they actually set up their own torrent tracker.
And their show, which is actually really hot, is in full 1080p HDTV!
Enjoy it:
http://www.mariposaHD.tv

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:18:53 +0000

And next time I have to get my spelling right …. hehe

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:17:15 +0000

I think the mother of all filesharing shows is Southpark. They owe so much of they’re popularity to the internet and the sharing of their show. (First in tiny realmedia files.) And as far as I know they’ve always recognized this and encouraged the sharing of their stuff. They already sold lots of SP merchandise when the show wasn’t even aired here!

By: limmey

limmey — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:22:07 +0000

Hey why not….peeps will grab it it for sure….

http://galacticcentral.org/

By: P2P Blog: Mininova clocks three billionth torrent download

P2P Blog: Mininova clocks three billionth torrent download — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:16:42 +0000

P2P Blog: Mininova clocks three billionth torrent download…

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By: SantaBJ

SantaBJ — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:48:46 +0000

So…how much do you want to bet that Pariah Island becomes a hit, even if it’s awful? :)

Great stuff. One step closer to Entertainment Business v2

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:39:06 +0000

@Anonymous

“What a fucking bunch of sellouts. Fuck Mininova.”

You sir, are a moron

By: apekillape

apekillape — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:17:36 +0000

It seems kind of silly to use a torrent site to “release” or whatever when the medium itself has nothing to do with where you download it from. Wouldn’t they be better off just seeding it themselves and putting out a promotional site?

Totally a marketing ploy to make their crappy show seem “cool”.

I call shenanigans!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:01:30 +0000

What a fucking bunch of sellouts. Fuck Mininova.

By: #

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:15:43 +0000

[quote comment="200833"]will at least be worth a look, i got sick of all these stupid reality tv shows a long time ago[/quote]

The Joe Schmo show parodied existing reality tv shows, but did not really come off any better than them.

By: Free Pirate Alliance

Free Pirate Alliance — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:16:59 +0000

will at least be worth a look, i got sick of all these stupid reality tv shows a long time ago

By: %

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:00:37 +0000

[quote]Is it just me, or does that show look terrible? No one else would distribute it so I think they had to rely on some random internet site. I’m sure the fans of ‘epic movie’ and what not will disagree with me.[/quote]

It could either be good or bad (or people’s opinions could vary extremely). It’s best not to judge a show before watching it.

Who would have thought a misanthropic doctor named House played by George from Blackadder would make a good show, until watching it? :P

By: Roflcer of the Lawl

Roflcer of the Lawl — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:55:01 +0000

It’s about time some producers started pulling their heads out their asses and embrace the future.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:40:32 +0000

I’ll be sure to check it out. They’re at least trying what we’ve wanted, that’s worth at least an episode.

By: system

system — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:44:35 +0000

We have a site that merely hosts torrent files that run through other peoples trackers, and suddenly it’s a “distribution platform”?

Mininova are not content distributors, and actually have as little to do with bittorrent as a free web or image host.
Some web hosts will only allow html pages, image hosts only allow images, mininova is nothing more than the torrent file equivalent.

Anyone can host those files and throw together a quick scrape script, it doesn’t make them a “distribution platform”.

This piece seems like nothing more than a copy/paste job straight from the corporate propoganda.
It helps to totally confuse the masses, the result of which is all the rubbish spouted about oink recently.

Original system, not that asshat imposter (witness the use of more than one word) :P

By: MPAA CEO

MPAA CEO — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:25:20 +0000

We shall sue them for distributing legal content on a pirate site.

By: pumpkin

pumpkin — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:15:50 +0000

Is it just me, or does that show look terrible? No one else would distribute it so I think they had to rely on some random internet site. I’m sure the fans of ‘epic movie’ and what not will disagree with me.

By: OOOOIIOOOO

OOOOIIOOOO — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:58:45 +0000

Is anyone else having problems with what.cd right now? I think its down.

By: ipredict

ipredict — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:29:45 +0000

this show will suck just because it’s legal.

By: UncertainGod

UncertainGod — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:11:08 +0000

I’ll download this show just to support the concept.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:08:53 +0000

[quote comment="200621"]

well… actually, I think, WE the users are the distributors. Mininova merely facilitates OUR distribution of content. This is a peoples’ revolution… people.

Or am I splitting hairs here? Sound like maybe a decent show. Here’s to hoping it is :)[/quote]

You’re not splitting hairs at all. It sounds as though Mininova is crossing over into dangerous legal territory if they want to start taking credit for THEIR content distribution. Looks like they want to have their cake and eat it too.

By now, this is hardly surprising. Just look at the ongoing monetization of YouTube and Facebook –where we are the content yet, at the end of the day, somebody else is lining their pockers.

By: @

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:05:55 +0000

[quote]So which is it, do you feel guilty or not? Figure it out before your next shady download.[/quote]

He doesn’t feel guilty about downloading TV, but he feels good about downloading this.

By: lowdirt

lowdirt — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:58:00 +0000

“We at Red Band recognize that downloading sites such as Mininova are a distribution medium, one which can be partnered with in a true participatory arrangement,”

well… actually, I think, WE the users are the distributors. Mininova merely facilitates OUR distribution of content. This is a peoples’ revolution… people.

Or am I splitting hairs here? Sound like maybe a decent show. Here’s to hoping it is :)

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:39:39 +0000

@ Nick: “I don’t feel guilty for downloading shows, but at least I can feel *less* guilty.”

So which is it, do you feel guilty or not? Figure it out before your next shady download.

By: Im0Patience

Im0Patience — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:35:21 +0000

Heh, and here I were. Thinking they (tv, movie and music industry) were all idiots who didn’t know that BitTorrent could potentially be used to gain incredible advantages.

Someone figured it out! Someone is less stupid it seems.

By: santa

santa — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:21:11 +0000

wow, finally an institution thats not completely ignorant towards bittorrent

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:01:48 +0000

I don’t feel guilty for downloading shows, but at least I can feel *less* guilty.

Its a great sign to see that they realise that it will get released on BT anyway, so why not embrace it?

Nick

By: RandomGuy

RandomGuy — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:22:07 +0000

Sounds good, will download when possible.

By: en3r0

en3r0 — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:17:44 +0000

Will be interesting to see how this turns out, if people will seed it enough to be useful.

Another good tracker to find legal shows on is http://www.LegitTorrents.info

By: Final

Final — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:57:45 +0000

Actually sounds kinda cool, I’ll check it out.

By: @

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:44:09 +0000

Looks interesting, I’ll have to download the show whenever possible.