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BitTorrent Gets $8.75M From Venture-Capital Firm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-distributed dept.

funny-jack writes "BitTorrent's drive to legitimize itself as a tool for distributing legal content appears to be gaining steam, as evidenced by the $8.75 million venture capital they recently secured. 'The piracy business is not something anyone can make money on,' says Ashwin Navin, who co-founded BitTorrent with Bram Cohen. 'We want to distribute paid and ad-supported content, using this technology.'"

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  1. Re:Help me out here... by Phil246 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bandwith costs money
    BT allows these movie studios to cut costs, and yet still host large files.
    Letting people just download directly from them, especially when large files are involved will cost them a packet.

  2. corporate... by torrents · · Score: 2, Informative

    i wouldn't worry about potential ads, drm, etc... there are other, more innovative clients out there...

    --
    Get your torrents...
  3. Re:World of Warcraft's Bitttorrent updater by theGreater · · Score: 4, Informative

    Did you forward all three sets, or just a single port? I know a lot people have made the mistake of allowing 6881 and 6999 only, 6112 only, 3724 only, or some combination thereof. I have had nothing but good speeds when updating -- obviously YM(H)V'ed. It's 3724, 6112, and 6881 THROUGH 6999. And yes, I think that's a ridiculous number of ports to have to leave open.

    -theGreater.

  4. Re:Help me out here... by Skye16 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not so. If you take the bandwidth you would have wasted on iMovie (or whatever) and set up a server to act as a seed (with all that bandwidth associated to it), you would be able to minimize the total used bandwidth (compared to that of your iMovie solution).

    Let's say I have a server with 6TB of transfer to blow on releasing a movie. If people directly download from me, without BT, they'll use all of that 6TB up in no time. But if people use Bit Torrent, and the server is acting as the seed, that 6TB will still be there to be used, but with all the users seeding as they download (and after they're complete), that 6TB would last much longer.

    Therefor, the user experience, if anything, is better. All you have to do is ensure that you have your own servers seeding the file regardless of whether other users are or not.

  5. The protocol is open by grahamsz · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just keep using whatever version of Azerus you have right now.

  6. Re:speaking of torrents by shudde · · Score: 5, Informative

    you guys check out http://www.litebay.org/ yet? pretty good selection, and all are super fast, i got batman begins in 2 hours. -acidjazz

    --from litebay.org forum: acidjazz Administrator Registered: 2005-08-22 Posts: 3

    Idiot.