Obama’s Victory Speech Does Well on BitTorrent
Written by Ernesto on November 06, 2008Within 24 hours of president-elect Barack Obama delivering his victory speech to the hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Chicago, another hundred thousand gathered in a BitTorrent swarm, to download a copy of the historic event.
The 2008 presidential campaign in the United States has been without doubt one of the most memorable in history. Already, Obama’s victory speech has become a collectors item. A day after he was elected president, his acceptance speech has been downloaded well over 100,000 times from various BitTorrent sites.
The most popular copy of the speech comes from the leading TV-torrent distribution group , EZTV. Novaking, one of the admins at EZTV told TorrentFreak that they simply couldn’t ignore this historic presidential election. “It would have been idiotic for us not to supply it,” he said. EZTV had also distributed copies of the debates, but the demand for these didn’t come close to that of Obama’s final speech.
Interest in the speech was not simply limited to the United States. A more detailed look at the geographical location of the people who downloaded the file via BitTorrent, shows that more than half of them come from outside the United States. However, the remaining 46.2% is a significantly greater share for US downloaders than for the average TV-show release.
Although the number of downloads for Obama’s speech were way above that of an average TV-show, it didn’t come close to the numbers of the Olympic opening ceremonies earlier this year. Despite the massive file size of 5GB, the opening ceremonies were downloaded over a million times, mostly by Chinese. The IOC, who owns the right to the broadcast wasn’t too happy about this, and went as far as contacting the Swedish Minister of Justice, to try and get the .torrent file off The Pirate Bay.
Unlike with the Olympics, we haven’t heard about any takedown requests for Obama’s presidential acceptance speech. In fact, if we could ask Obama if we can download a copy for personal use, he will more than likely answer with popular campaign slogan, “Yes we can.”
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Glad to see that people care. :)
that’s true – it was a great memorable event. And thanks to torrents the word spreaded
I am glad that Obama understand more with technology than McCain,
But Obama is not my President
Tyler-MN USA
whomever bitches about distributing a presidential speech for is automatically not an American citizen.
period.
if this country wasnt ran by idiots, there would be a real law stating that.
but no. America is the place where you can challenge anything.. including when you eat mcdonalds every single day or spill hot coffee on yourself and sue the business because of the repercussions of such stupidity.
its all one in the same, idiots being idiots, and people entertaining them.. when they should be punching them square in the face and tell them what kind of 2 bit loser they are.
now i can give my hard earned money to peices of shit that dont do anything all day..
im so happy.
here here…. it was fairly compelling stuff, not quite JFK, but good stuff none the less.
You can view it here from a range of sources if your lazy like me.
http://www.fetchmp3.com/search.php?Term=obama+speech&searchbutton.x=0&searchbutton.y=0&Module=YouTube
hope that helps someone.
J.
Although he has a slightly more sensible idea on BitTorrents, there can be no faith put in him, because he is the president of the United States, to answer to the cluelessness of the American people, who are seeped in the propaganda of the RIAA/MPAA &c.
Roze
http://www.10ch.org/
a little voice inside me says “but Obama is President everything is going to change”
btw DEMONOID INVITES ARE OPEN TODAY!
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People are morons if they think much is going to change at all in US domestic policy. Including copyright related laws. According to the little Obama has outlined anyhow. More will change in the foreign relations arena.
All the morons whinging about their hard earned money being given away to lazy people are suffering gross delusion: all that will happen is taxes on individuals earning high incomes will return to somewhere around the pre-Bush 2 levels. No big deal IMO.
while I appreciate comments on copyright reform, and this is clearly the place for it, Obama has bigger fish to fry for the time being than copyright related matters. Matters of the economy and our standing in the global community is going to be dealt with first and foremost.
J.
Obama seems to understand the internet more then anyone in high power has done.
Not only because he used it in his campaign, but also from the youtube comments and “blogs” he has made about net neutrality and other issues.
Very personal and very well understood comments about how important it is to have a neutral and open internet.
Copyright and “Intellectual Property” needs change to not be a stick in the wheel in the internet and software development of the future.
Ill admit i have drunk the obama Kool aid.
Of course the sheep follow the puppet. All the lemmings buying into this BS are as dumb as the people who voted for Bush. A president is nothing more then a damn puppet, he isn’t the Messiah people.
To those who think Osama is going to be lenient on pirates and IP laws LMAO you are a complete and total clueless POS. His pockets are lined like all politicians in the US.
It would be better if a white man won the election.
Why should a n3gr0 run the richest country in the world?
I h8 black people!
“In fact, if we could ask Obama if we can download a copy for personal use, he will more than likely answer with popular campaign slogan, “Yes we can.””
And the networks will say “No you can’t”.
It is the same story as Michael Moore working with people who let him have rights to his films only in US and Canada. Why he does not get worldwide rights via his contracts – I don’t know.
@ post 14. Its people like you who ruin it for everyone. This man is most likely smarter than you and with more education that you have but you try to bring him down because of the color of his skin. I hate idiots!
Greedy corporate snobs use profits to give out ridiculous bonuses instead of putting it back into their company just in case of an emergency. Then they go bankrupt and leave everyone else in the hole because of their bad choices. Of course Obama got elected because change is welcome when things go bad.
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Obama
DO NOT WANT
Yarr! Seed it well
Ron Paul.
I really, really hate stupid people. And I love America, for all its flaws.
It was an election. It happened. It’s over, now. Sorry if your guy didn’t win.
14 is just a troll.
Obama will save us!
I think he is incarnation of Vishnu.
I am his white brother.
I myself downloaded it, and why shouldn’t I? It’s a memorial occasion, why wait for it to be seen on TV or read about it in the news?
L O L
@17 said: “Greedy corporate snobs use profits to give out ridiculous bonuses instead of putting it back into their company just in case of an emergency. Then they go bankrupt and leave everyone else in the hole because of their bad choices.”
You do realise that the current economic crisis was precipitated by the US government legislating that Freddie MAc and Fannie May *had* to give out credit to low income people through sub-prime mortgages that were extremely risky as these poor people simply copuldn’t afford to pay back their mortgages – through their own fault or not.
It was government legislation to “help the poor” that started it.
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How stupid americans are… They choose democracy – welcome in hell morons. We are having it in Europe, and one is sure. Europe is dying day after day… Everyday scandals, everyday cross words, everyday higher taxes. We have (in Poland) the highest price of oil in Europe… You idiots were burried USA.
btw. we were praying of Ron Paul for USA in Europe… Americans – less Tv , more brain please.
“The IOC, who owns the right to the broadcast wasn’t too happy about this, and went as far as contacting the Swedish Minister of Justice, to try and get the .torrent file off The Pirate Bay.”
There’s a number of things wrong with this. First off, Swedish ministers aren’t allowed to micromanage individual cases or how the laws are applied like they are in the USA. The ministers simply can’t tell the police what to do or not to do. If they did, they’d break the law.
Secondly, hosting, indexing, and tracking torrent files isn’t illegal (yet). Even though individual TPB users break the law, TPB itself doesn’t. You could argue that TBP assist copyright infringement, but, well, you could sue Google for that, too. Or a printing press manufacturer.
Thirdly, even if it WAS illegal, and the ministers had the authority to do something about it, there’s nothing they could do. You can’t take down TPB’s servers, because they have them scattered across several countries, and no-one, not even TPB crew, knows where all of them are. They’ve said they wouldn’t tell, either, even if they were sent to prison. And domain/IP blocking can easily be circumvented.
Fourth, even if you somehow manage to get rid of TPB and outlaw file sharing, you’re just digging yourself a deeper hole. Because then the demand for anonymous, encrypted, p2p, file sharing software would skyrocket. There already are quite a few darknets like that, they just aren’t very popular yet. But once they get mainstream, you’ll have no way what-so-ever to catch pirates, or anyone else sharing information you don’t want them to. And if you still try to stop it by putting cameras and microphones everywhere, to catch people in the act, well, it’s bound to get rather pitchforky then.
“In fact, if we could ask Obama if we can download a copy for personal use, he will more than likely answer with popular campaign slogan, “Yes we can.””
And the networks will say “No you can’t”.
And then all the filesharers say “LOL GTFO”.
Meh, it’s the same sh*t, just with different flies.
All the networks just had Obama on with his first post-election news conference. It was real fun listening to him stutter and stammer his way through it. Like any politician he wound up saying nothing. Without the teleprompter he really sucks.
No doubt about it, it was quite a moving speech, I am not surprised.
Jess
http://www.anolite.echoz.com
@14 get a life
I hate rednecks
Well Obama won is a good thing by the way the as it quite due in Capitalist and Racist US of A but media is almost projecting as God himself who will overcome all the problems that America is going through right now well what can i say American ppl r stupid there is no doubt it.And all this mess which is going on in US of A they are themselves to blame what the hell!!.They destroyed many countries in their race for superiority over the world and now its their time to get destroyed. i can say only one thing
“GANGSTA IN WHITEHOUSE”
@5
You mean Wall street bankers and corporate lawyers ? Oh I’m sorry, you were allready doing that !
It doesn’t surprise me as it was a very moving and powerful speech. Check out this blog for everything Obama.
http://www.ObamaEqualsChange.com
Democracy only helps the rich. The poor just get poorer
msg 14 – have got very short hair, but not a muppet like you, somthing to consider – your ancestors were black men, when they moved north, they lost their colour :)
Obama can’t do much worse than bush and his wars for oil ?
He’s not the messiah,nothings gonna change.
He’s not the messiah,nothings gonna change.
“now i can give my hard earned money to pieces of shit that don’t do anything all day..”
when you come out of that little box your living in let us know…
there are starving children right here in the US that some of “OUR”
hard earned money will help.
the disabled – who cant work not that they don’t want to.the unfortunate that cant walk talk or hear and be able to respond to the ignorance i see in this forum.
the unemployed people “who want to work” that cant find a job .
i could go on and on about what “OUR” money will be used for but why.
a famous line from a aerosmith song
Mr if you can judge a man by the color of his skin…
then your a backwoods fuck who hasnt seen the world outside your fuckn Tree stand.
Well, the age of great depression is comming (
I’ve never seen a torrent with over 5000 seeds before. That should say something.
Well said Skinhead, I hope you have time to watch the swearing in, and after that you may ask your cute sister or mother to blow me, maybe we might be lucky with the next elections.
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