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BITTORRENT GOING LEGIT Monday, February 26 2007 BitTorrent, a name that has become anathema to the major movie studios, which have accused it of facilitating Internet piracy, plans to launch the BitTorrent Entertainment Network that will sell legal downloads of films and TV shows from Warner Bros., Paramount, 20th Century Fox, MGM, and Lionsgate, the Associated Press reported today (Monday). Users will be able to rent new movies for $3.99, older ones for $2.99, and TV shows for $1.99. They can be (more) FIRST PIRATED HIGH-DEF MOVIE HITS THE WEB Wednesday, January 17 2007 The first pirated version of an HD DVD movie has made its appearance on the Internet. As first reported by the website Ars Technica, the sci-fi movie Serenity, encoded in MPEG-4 VC-1, takes up 19.6 GB on a hard drive. (It would take about a day to download over a typical broadband connection.) The appearance of Serenity on BitTorrent comes less than a month after a programmer calling himself Muslix64 said that he had been (more) |
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BitTorrent, the controversial video distribution company that has often been linked to Internet piracy, plans to inroduce a new service next month that will allow consumers to watch movies and TV shows legally as streaming videos -- but they'll have to watch commercials first. The San Jose Mercury News noted that the service could "point to a potential revolution in how consumers access television and movies." Unlike other movie-download services, the BitTorrent service will not require consumers to wait hours for movies to be downloaded. They'll be able to watch them much like the way they watch movies on TV -- and without paying for them. Moreover, the Mercury News suggested, such services could eventually replace traditional television.
