So people can easily choose and will download this because of it’s VERY FAST release and SUPERBLY GREAT quality, or just because they can’t wait for DVDRIP or Bluray release.

In the end of the day it is a win-win solution, people will have more choice! More choice is good!
so bring it on!

But I am a patient man, I usually just wait until the best version is available to download.

Since this is a VMWare product, logic will also tell you that it can technically run on Linux and MAC, since VMWare is also supported on these platforms.
Sure there is the issue of having to load VMWare on those OS’es, but then again, I’d dare say that most people have it running anyway since statistically, most apps available today are Windows apps.

Also, a thing about trust.
Your whole life is based on trust. You trust everything and everyone you ultimately connect with or communicate with. Life simply cannot operate or evolve without trusting someone or something.

I trust Mininova, have so for years. And will coninue to do so simply because they’ve earned it. I know I can trust their technical expertise, and I am sure they will find the right balance for them, the download community (existing downloaders and the new breed of downloaders coming) and the content publishers.

Keep up the innovation Mininova, your onto something good here.

http://www.djod.co.uk

I gave up watching most tv shows here [uk] ages ago as they either have adverts every 4 – 6 minutes or get pre-empted at every turn with virgin media advertising etc…

LOL.

Yeah, and every time some guest at a party eats a chip, that’s one less sale for Frito Lay.

Putting a bowl of chips out for your party guests = lost revenue to the snackfood industry.

Won’t somebody pleeaaase think of the snackfood industry!?

One download does = lost revenue to the movie industry.

As you said, “1/10 of the downloads you wouldn’t by” (It’s spelt buy by the way, and now that we’ve removed the fact you can’t spell we’ve removed any credibility you have towards this blog) then why download and watch it in the first place.

If you really want to watch a movie then you either pay for it (It does cost for them to produce the movie) by going to the movies or wait (For your cost sake) for it to come out on DVD and watch it with your family.

Along with that, I’ll assume (Because I haven’t downloaded this yet) that it’s going to be far greater quality than your normal CAM video that you would download when the movie comes out.

Then you have the option of a movie with far greater quality with adds.

You get your quality movie for free, you gain adds.

Or, you download a crap quality movie with a head bopping up and down every few minutes with no adds which I’m sure you wouldn’t share with your family (If you had one) then you’d be portrayed as a cheap skape that can’t afford to take his family out to the movies.

To get a decent quality movie from downloads you have to wait for DVDRIP and that takes weeks/months. And with XVID or CAM sometimes the lighting is off, hard to watch, the aspect ratio, the voice sync is off etc.

The same rule applies here for downloadable movies:

A good movie like “The Dark Knight” you’ll watch at the movies, I know I did.

Other movies you don’t really like or unsure off you’ll download it with crap quality.

Now there is an alternative, you can watch your crap/dislike movie with adds and better quality or you still got the option of going to the movies and pay to watch it, which also by the way you still have adds in the begining even tho you are paying for the movie?

Also, what about Paid TV, you get adds, you pay for that content, why is there adds?

My 2 cents.

the facts still remain that the revenues for the industry is still going up regardless of our pirating.

Thats because one download does NOT = lost sale. I wouldnt by 1/10 of the crap i download, and I DO purchase things I like. Most shit I download i do just because I can.. waste time.. check out new things.. but given the choice i would go outside and see if the sun still works.

AND i guess it’s okay for you to be blissfully unaware of how many starving ethiopians could be fed with the money you spend on an internet connection every month…

Bzzt.

Wrong.

Setting aside for a minute the fact that the media industry’s revenue keeps growing year over year over year, not shrinking, the only reason they suffer any “losses”(well, besides the miserable abortions greenlit by oh-so-competent studio execs. Like, Adam Sandler’s trapped on this island, and he falls in love with a coconut, or something…) is because thanks to the Internet, word of mouth spreads like wildfire these days. Which makes it a little tougher for the media industry to make a fortune by foisting shit upon the buying public.

Socky: “If this system can help give a few dollars back from each viewer ….”

…Then maybe we can help Tom Cruise afford his NINTH solid gold Ferrari! Whereas if we don’t give Hyper MP a chance, he’ll have to settle for eight :(.

Look I have been an avid downloader for 7 years now and I can understand why someone would come up with this idea…….the media industry is hurting, have a look at some stats and you’ll see that they’re losing a hell a of a lot of money because of torrent networks. To date we can all be thankful that we still have the ability to view content without paying for it, although we really ultimately do by paying for our bandwidth anyway, but the studios aren’t seeing a cent back from us at all. We are lucky that they are still putting out decent quality content, If this system can help give a few dollars back from each viewer and we still can view this content for free I see it as we are still being satisfied and we are also helping the studios put out more fine content for us to consume…..The studios are a business after all and they put out the best content on the planet……….PEACE….KEEP THE CONTENT ROLLING IN AND AROUND THE INTERENT!!!!!…with our help

How much did they bribe you to write this happy-clappy bullshit, Ernesto?

As you may have noticed from polling the above comments, 99.5% of your readers are not stupid/money-grubbing as yourself, and rather enjoy flaying with a cat-o-nine-tails upon your exposed ass.

“Splassh … Sploosh” – that’s the sound of life-boats dropping in the water. But you tied yourself to the mast with anchor-chain. Farewell and have fun as the bad ship Mininova goes down …

Meanwhile, TPB proudly flies the Jolly Rodger, swigging on bootleg rum and laughing HO-HO-HO at the futile threats of flailing industry dinosaurs.

Avast there, afore a broadside cannoncade will shiver your mouldy timbers to Davey Jones’ Locker!

“If Ernesto is captured, can we make him walk the gangplank, Capt’n?”

“We’ll keep that scurvey land-lubber in the brig til we get to Shark Straits, then, yarr-harr-harr!”

And why in God’s name should I download a half-decent quality video with an obnoxious watermark in the corner trying to sell me something I neither want nor need, when instead I could download a high quality video that’s completely ad-free?

Engage your brain, please, Mr. Dipshit McClueless. If given the choice between a worse option and a better option, only a masochist would choose the former.

Andy: “We have been enjoying ripped content for far too many years and forgot about the serious money goes into the production”

In that case, isn’t it lucky that filesharing doesn’t take serious money away from anything?

So it’s okay for us to be blissfully unaware of how many third world countries could be fed using the production budget for, oh I don’t know, Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

Andy: “About time someone thought of something and started to payback the lost revenue in the industry”

Well, I would start paying back the lost revenue that the industry has suffered due to filesharing, but I’m just not sure how to repay something that’s 9/10ths imaginary.

1. “Monetizing” p2p content is, quite simply, exactly the wrong approach in itself. P2p in general (and bittorent in particular) has just about zero “cost” in terms of bandwidth, and allows potentially global reach really easily.

Most of the reasoning for having advertising in TV broadcasting is so that broadcasters can recoup their operating costs. The whole genius of p2p technologies is that the “operating costs” are spread across huge crowds of people, thus effectively nullifying them.

If you want to use p2p technology (with it’s low/nonexistent “barriers to entry” and potential for global reach), then you take the “flipside” too — the vast majority of your potential audience isn’t going to “buy” your stuff, because they know full well that it effectively cost you NOTHING to distribute.

How about this for an idea? the FSF (Free Software Foundation) has been advocating “blanket licensing” agreements between content-providers and p2p networks for years. The “power users” could sign up through TPB or Mininova or some such thing, and — for a monthy/yearly fee, be assured of guaranteed access to “premium” trackers with really great seeding and quality-control over the content.

Torrentfreedom is already selling something vaguely similar to this for 15 bucks a month (I think it’s access to their VPN or something, dunno exactly.)

Copyright-holders (corporate megaliths, mainly) already get paid every time somebody buys blank media. Hell, European countries have a “telly tax” which offsets the cost of broadcasting so that they don’t get a measly 40 minutes out of every “1 hour” program. What is it for “1/2 Hour” programs stateside here? Twelve minutes?

Commercials make some sense on streaming video sites, but absolutely none on p2p, and nobody in their right mind is going to download a closed-source, proprietary player.

About time someone thought of something and started to payback the lost revenue in the industry. Maybe we might start to see some better content on it’s way to the torrents and in better time.

Mininova wouldn’t be so stupid to post malicious content up on their featured torrents. And if we run a executable from another source and something bad happens then I suppose it’s own fault for being part of the pirated cause.

Mininova is basically useless, honestly, try something else like THE PIRATE BAY.

Totally BS. Big mistake Mininova. Enjoy your dwindling number of users thanks to this.

If so, it’s the beginning of the end for Mininova.

It’s one thing to put ads into a video as part of the video stream, but to make it an executable file with a proprietary media player makes it resemble trojans like Zlob too much.