http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/11/23/bittorrent-creator-to-help-stop-downloads-of-movies/ Geek News Central is the technical site for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a Family of Tech Shows and Content. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/11/23/bittorrent-creator-to-help-stop-downloads-of-movies/comment-page-1/#comment-2459 scstraus Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:32:10 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/11/23/bittorrent-creator-to-help-stop-downloads-of-movies/#comment-2459 Halleluliagh (sp?)!! Finally someone writing an article thinking about us poor expats!! No one else does, that's for sure. I'm an american expat living in Prague, and to get english language satellite I had to buy a black market card and box for Sky UK at approximately 20x the cost to someone living in the UK, and I have to pay a $100 a year "service charge" to someone in the UK just for his UK address and for billing to my credit card. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> For the 5 years before I was willing to pay so extravagantly for satellite, I had only things like bittorrent and podcasts to keep me company in the long winter nights. Let me tell you, it's can be a huge boost to have even the most difficult of access to a little bit of your culture. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> But unfortunately the entertainment industry is still banging flint on stones to try to make fire, I'm so sick of them not giving us an alternative to their ancient ways of doing business. Seeing as they give me no choice, I believe it to be my right to download their show. People pay $60 for access to thousands of shows, why can't they download them for 50 cents? (Yes I think $2 for a TV show is rediculous as well). <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> Anyhow I think bittorrent keeps the networks honest, and I think that's very important. They need the competition so they're not so lame. (Although I could hardly imagine them being lamer) <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> But if bittorrent stops doing it..... Someone else surely will... Probably without missing a beat. Halleluliagh (sp?)!! Finally someone writing an article thinking about us poor expats!! No one else does, that’s for sure. I’m an american expat living in Prague, and to get english language satellite I had to buy a black market card and box for Sky UK at approximately 20x the cost to someone living in the UK, and I have to pay a $100 a year “service charge” to someone in the UK just for his UK address and for billing to my credit card.

For the 5 years before I was willing to pay so extravagantly for satellite, I had only things like bittorrent and podcasts to keep me company in the long winter nights. Let me tell you, it’s can be a huge boost to have even the most difficult of access to a little bit of your culture.

But unfortunately the entertainment industry is still banging flint on stones to try to make fire, I’m so sick of them not giving us an alternative to their ancient ways of doing business. Seeing as they give me no choice, I believe it to be my right to download their show. People pay $60 for access to thousands of shows, why can’t they download them for 50 cents? (Yes I think $2 for a TV show is rediculous as well).

Anyhow I think bittorrent keeps the networks honest, and I think that’s very important. They need the competition so they’re not so lame. (Although I could hardly imagine them being lamer)

But if bittorrent stops doing it….. Someone else surely will… Probably without missing a beat.

]]> http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/11/23/bittorrent-creator-to-help-stop-downloads-of-movies/comment-page-1/#comment-2458 Erwin Blonk Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:33:22 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2005/11/23/bittorrent-creator-to-help-stop-downloads-of-movies/#comment-2458 I had some sort of an issue with this. I am an NFL-fan and you're lucky to see the superbowl over here and maybe a game a week if you have a digital TV subscription with a German commercial station (imagine hearing the comment 'ja, das ist eine grossartige touchdown der weltmeisterklasse' - luckily I understand German pretty well :D ). Yahoo at one point had a service that let you watch football through a paid service, Platinum it was called if I remember correctly. I got out my creditcard, typed the number and...... was refused for not being in the US or Canada. This is licensing gone to far. Here I was, ready, willing and able to pay $120 a year and they didn't want it because of some territorial licensing nonsense. I had some sort of an issue with this. I am an NFL-fan and you’re lucky to see the superbowl over here and maybe a game a week if you have a digital TV subscription with a German commercial station (imagine hearing the comment ‘ja, das ist eine grossartige touchdown der weltmeisterklasse’ – luckily I understand German pretty well ).
Yahoo at one point had a service that let you watch football through a paid service, Platinum it was called if I remember correctly. I got out my creditcard, typed the number and…… was refused for not being in the US or Canada. This is licensing gone to far. Here I was, ready, willing and able to pay $120 a year and they didn’t want it because of some territorial licensing nonsense.

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