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BitTorrent Gets $8.75M From Venture-Capital Firm
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.'"
It's bad enough we had to worry about "poisoned" torrents.... Now we've got advertising to deal with as well.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Gotta type faster next time, second-poster :-)
a christian would have got first post you insensitive clod!
Bandwidth costs? Everyone knows movie studios are sticking it to teh man at every opportunity. Why let those suckers^Hcustomers provide bandwidth for popular content? IN fact what else does bit torrent offer except bandwidth relief from a central server?
As for adding advertising, geez - how much longer must we put up with this useless intrusive medium? I buy products either locally (cheap delivery and sufficient for my needs) or online after good trusted consumer reviews. All these companies with huge marketting funds - MS especially, 100 million to sell a new revision of their OS - can the product not stand up on its own merits? Especially considering the entrenched masses?
What is it with marketting. Its like some sort of artificial magic tonic that dreaming idiots promise will make or break a product. Its almost as maddening as movie trailers showing ALL of the good bits, rather than just teasers of what is to come. Repeat customers do not come from marketting lies - IMO they come from either one of two things: desperation- eg. MS Office customers who can no longer read the document someone just sent to them; and happy customers who feel they got good value for money in a working product.
Most advertising these days is lying to their prospective consumers.
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I'm sorry, but BitTorrent sucks. If they take it and commercialize it until no one wants it anymore, fantastic. It works, but it's in no way well designed. Maybe someone else will come along and make something better, firewall friendly, something that's actually peer-to-peer...
If you disagree and think it is well designed, fine. Keep using it, by all means. So do I. But if you don't think there's a whole lot of room for improvement, you're not very imaginitive.
Random and weird software I've written.
Riiiight, because nobody who has $500 to spend on a 60 GB hard drive can afford to buy music, and none of them use it for anything but music. Puff puff pass, man.
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