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Hollywood Looks to BitTorrent for Distribution
daria42 writes "Vinton Cerf, who wrote the original TCP/IP protocol and is currently chairman of ICANN, said this week he had recently discussed BitTorrent with at least two interested movie producers. 'I know personally for a fact that various members of the movie industry are really getting interested in how to use the Internet--even BitTorrent--as a distributed method for distributing content,' Cerf said. 'I've spoken with several movie producers in the last month.'"
Ironic, how the industry turns to one of the tools their were claiming ruins it.
It's a smart move by the movie business, they are expanding into the online market, better late than never. They just need a way to make sure to stop piracy, as shown with the iTunes mp3 encoding.
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Just stop suing the sites and bam, they will distribute it for you! It's amazing.
Not to mention standing in line with a bunch of hot teeners remembering when you could get girls like that with your fat g/f at your side ... >sigh(laugh, its a joke)
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'I know personally for a fact that various members of the movie industry are really getting interested in how to use the Internet--even BitTorrent--as a distributed method for distributing content,' Cerf said.
I think he mis-heard those movie producers. What they said was that BitTorrent is a "disturbing method for distributing content."
I thought it was for the pictures?
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As inevitable as IP-based film distribution is, Vint Cerf talking with TWO movie producers isn't news and doesn't herald the dawn of a new age.
If Slashdot worked like Fark, we'd file this under... OBVIOUS.
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