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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?"
Dupe: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/27/183246
can we go for 3 dupes in a row?
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Slashdot Search: bittorrent yields this article, which claims a $8.75 million figure. Has the funding been cut by $50,000 or something?
So that's 17.4 millions now?
What happened to the other $50K that we just read about two days ago?
Wow, it doubles every day.
Editors, we going for a new record today?
Speaking of which, what is the record for dupes in a row? I would guess 3 - 4 (April fools doesn't count).
Come on guys, you can do it... almost there.
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#NB: For obvious reasons, the first option is ENABLED by default - remember to turn off if you are NOT responding to a dupe
[X] Another: [X] Dupe [ ] Slashvertisment [X] WTF [X] $editor is a dork
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[ ] I Haven't RTFA, but... $random_opinionated_comment
[ ] Slashdotted already!. I bet their server runs on $topic_item too
[ ] Soul_sucking registration required
[ ] Mod Parent [ ] up [ ] Down
[ ] Fsck: [ ] SCO [ ] Micro$oft [ ] DMCA [ ] DRM [ ] MPAA [ ] RIAA [ ] Google [ ] Bush [ ] You all
[ ] I for one welcome our new $topic_item overlords
[ ] Imagine a beowulf cluster of those
[ ] In Soviet Russia, $topic_item owns you!
[X] Meh!
[ ] Netcraft confirms $topic_item is: [ ] dead [ ] dying
[ ] But have the inventors thought of what will happen if $random_amateur_insight
[ ] Once again the USA is clamping down on my [ ] Amendment rights.
[ ] You insensitive clod
[ ] But people who download music from P2P networks are more likely to buy the album
[ ] Cue DVD Jon-type crack in 3..2..1
[ ] Torrent, anyone?
[ ] Here's a link to a patch: $random_linux_distro_url
[ ] Profit!!
[ ] Still no cure for cancer
AT&ROFLMAO
"Though the application has found legitimate uses, the company wants to distance itself from any association with piracy."
You mean they're not jumping up and down screaming "Hey publishers, we made it really easy for people to pirate your products!"
Napster tried to distance themselves too, but it didn't work out so well for them. At least these guys had the foresight (thanks to Napster's trailblazing) to have a decentralized architecture.
WHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE. (Would you like some cheese and crackers, dupewhiners?)
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
How much funding would Slashdot require to stop posting so many #$%$@^ dupes ??
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 :)
WHY bring the Viet Cong into this? WHAT GOOD WILL COME OF IT?! ...oh yeah...dupe...and yet...I don't mind...there's no news like good news...twice....
Before you mod me funny, think, perhaps I was insightfully funny?
How will filesharing *ever* have credibility now that the VietCong supports it?
Yeah, put them in their place, grammar nazi. I'd rather see dupe whiners than someone who only corrects people or posts many extremely in-depth comments. All in a 3 day period.
Which is worse? He that whines about dupes or he that whines about the whiners? Or perhaps I'm worse. At least I don't try correcting trolls, though.
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... oh wait.
I seriously thought for a second that I was having a browser caching problem when I saw 2 dupes in a row.
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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.
Given the precedent of liability for infringement through subconscious copying in the United States, those statements might unfortunately be accurate.
[insert random bitching about dupes here]
.. 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!
This is an exact copy of a post by 'popo' from the previous BitTorrent/venture capital thread.
"The advanced societies of the future will be driven by competing systems of psychopathology." -JG Ballard
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=163583&cid=136 60672/
Yeah, it's not like people pay for slashdot or anything...
You, sir/madam, are hysterically funny. Biggest laugh I've had all week. Thanks! :-)
-Stephen
But... if it weren't for those types of comments there wouldn't be any comments to read!
Sadly, it appears that it's just plagarism and karma whoring. It would be great social commentary if there were a least some form of attribution. I should be noted that he did the same thing in response to the last duped story.
Oh man, quality stuff there. I knew there was a reason I still read slashdot.
In that case, it seems to be social commentary anyway.
by switching to CSS which saved them as much as 15% on their HTML usage.
But they're still trying to save even more money by reusing articles which allows for higher compression rates.
Work Safe Porn
/fixed it for ya.
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Peer to Peer works when it is *SHARING*. Anything else and it is stealing. Cripes.
It is. Read his journal. He's doing this as an expose on the community and failures of moderation. Sadly, in some ways he's rather insightful.
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... day ...
... day ....
Now RIAA will have one more target for lawsuits.
It's called Dupeg (it's lossy duping format).
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?
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AT&ROFLMAO
Wasn't this said a message ago or on the post before?
News for merdes. Shit that matters.
Ask me about my sig.
You must not subscribe the the RSS feed! I don't know what they're doing, but I have like 3 copies of every single story.
Oh, and speaking of RSS, again I say that if the freakin editors would subscribe to the RSS feed and glance at it before posting they wouldn't post nearly as many dupes.
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I don't know if I necessarily agree with that. I've posted things on Slashdot which were contrarian in nature.
That said, I find your comment recycling quite amusing--nice job.
Wow, it's posts like that one that make dupes worthwhile. Thanks for the laugh.
how many of the people who whine actually PAY to support Slashdot...
This guy, Bram Cohen, followed his urge to hack. For a while now he's been living off donations for his work. And now this windfall.
This is inspiring!
Top four posts reporting a dupe:
5:14: 5, Insightful
5:15: 4, Insightful
5:15: 0
5:15: 0, Redundant
Come on, mods - play nice. That's only one minute's time; it's not like the parent posted "Dupe!" 15 minutes after the story was posted. They actually took the time to grab the link, at that.
So, apart from that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
WTH is this editor asleep at the wheel?
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From: (EmperorKagato)
To: 'daddypants@slashdot.org'
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/
Seems to be within the same subject as this article.
Should this be an update of the subject?(Google and NASA To Collaborate On Technology)
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"This may be a dupe, but I wonder... how many of the people who whine actually PAY to support Slashdot..."
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Let's see: so we'll be paying the content suppliers for the right to download content from our neighbours. This content will presumably be DRM'd, so we won't typically be able to do anything with it except play it a specified way on a specified platform.
The content providers will not be paying us for the bandwidth used in passing that content on to our neighbours, nor for the disk space used in storing it. How much does disk space cost these days?
Maybe they should pay us?
No, I didn't read the article...
Oh, wait, I'm reading /.
Never mind!
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
Nevermind the article, I've clicked "read more..." only for the bashing ;)
Does this mean I don't have to look at the photo of Bram and his baby anymore?
No it didn't.
Registering accounts later than some other chrisb since 1997
Will this new funding spur a third and perhaps even a fourth dupe of this story on Slashdot?
I don't have much of a problem downloading movies, but if there was a legitimate alternative, I'd take it. But having to compete with a free service should hopefully make them eventually provide an alterative that isn't too pricey or restrictive.
Netflix is such an alternative. They have many memberships from which to choose, as cheap as $10/month for "unlimited" DVD rentals. You don't even have to leave your house to fetch or return your DVDs. If you don't consider that to be a legitimate, price-competive alternative to downloading free movies, then what would be a fair alternative?
cpeterso
if you were skeptical, you could say bram cohen designed this for the RIAA to look at and say "Shit... we better do something, lets buy him out" - it would be a quick way to make some cash.
I dare say he might even be interesting and funny, too.
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Microsoft have done it again! It seem every 4 or so weeks i hear about another un-imaginative ripoff from microsoft making out that its all new and all theirs!! And recently they havn't even been re-hashing the names properly!!! i cite as my examples:
Macromedia Flash - Microsoft Sparkle
BitTorrent - Avalanche
Give it a few months we'll be seen Microsoft BackupExec...utive! Microsoft Delphoid! The mIcroPod Nanop!
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