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BitTorrent Gets $8.7 Million in VC Funding
Brandon writes "BitTorrent just got a massive infusion of cash from venture capital firm DCM Doll. It looks like BitTorrent is hoping to cozy up with the content creators. From the article, 'Neither BitTorrent nor DCM have publicly stated
how a legitimate service would work, but industry insiders have been busy speculating on how the distributed peer-to-peer service could help movie studios and filmmakers make
for-pay content available.' Will this awaken Microsoft's Avalanche?"
Its not even funny. Its like Slashdot bombing or something. We should keep a list of the number of dupes each 'editor' posts. It should be for their karma!
This sort of thing legitimizes p2p networks.
:)
I have a 4-month old daughter at home, so my wife and I don't really get to go out to the movies any more - so I download new releases and we watch them at home, and we can still keep up with our childless friends who go to the movies
I do this without any guilt, because if the MPAA etc would get off their arses and build a decent delivery system where I could pay (a reasonable fee - not the full cost of a cinema ticket!!) to download the latest movies then I would.
So, the great downloads of the software demos, the linux distros and so on haven't been legitimate?
Again, I'm left feeling rather let down by statements that seem to indicate that unless somethings signed off and tide up by the content cartels, it's somehow illegitimate.
And if you can please add it to the subculture wikipedia item. Thank you :)
... oh wait.
I seriously thought for a second that I was having a browser caching problem when I saw 2 dupes in a row.
Hagrin.com
.. that I read Slashdot more than the ops do? Just a thought.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Slashdot: Dupes for dopes, stuff that matters so much we gotta tell you again!
Eh I'm pretty sure bandwidth==money for OSDN, with the Ad's and all.
I started up my laptop, and thought for sure that I had forgotten to refresh all the tabs on my browser. Sure enough, I had. I should have known better!
Slashdot needs a "last refreshed" time on the page, so that you'll know if you've left your browser open, or if you're seeing a dupe.
Judging from the editor's comment at the end of the previous dupe acknowledging its dupeness, these dupes are in fact deliberate. But maybe not for the reason stated.
Think about the slashdot effect for a moment. You've seen what happens when a site that can't handle traffic gets slashdotted. Now think what happens on a site which has ad-supported stories that can handle the traffic. Especially if it is a deep-pocketed advertiser.
Then consider how a site that didn't get the slashdot-effect ad impressions for a particular story because slashdot linked to another else first. Give them a dupe and maybe a commitment for a few more linked stories to make them happy and keep the kickbacks coming.
Makes you want to run your own news aggregating site, huh?
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Will this new funding spur a third and perhaps even a fourth dupe of this story on Slashdot?