Hmmm. I wonder if the industry's sudden interest in BitTorrent has anything to do with Matrix Reloaded not making as much as the studios hoped.
Not to be overly cynical or anything, but I imagine that some of the studio flacks who promised their bosses that this was the next Spider Man are sweating through their Hugo Boss. But luckily, they've got a perfect way to deflect criticism; blame the Internet bogeyman that's destroying copyrights! Yeah, we didn't overhype this movie to the world (and, more importantly, our investors)! It was, uh, (checks list of P2P networks) BitTorrent!
C|Net ran a little blurb about this the other day. (Scroll down). Interestingly, the site's founder used to work for VersionTracker itself. It must be nice to spit out a little bile after having to be objective about some of the crap that gets posted up there.
Oh, and they are open to expanding onto other platforms:
"I'm not much of a Windows guy," he said. "It's certainly possible if we got some contributors that were interested in highlighting the worst of Windows or Linux we might go there."
According to very reliably anonymous coward post-bots, *BSD is dead. So obviously this request came from an undead BSD. Would you want a bunch of zombies and vampires mucking around in your code?
Yes. That must be it. That whole legal wrangle about ownership and the tortured path to the screen (http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Studio/7206/sp ider.html") was just a front. Marvel wanted to screw Lee, so they waited. And waited. And waited. And went through a bankruptcy that may have been averted if they'd had, say, a blockbuster movie starring one of their characters. Then, instead of waiting a few more years, they said "the hell with it, he'll die before it gets to court" and made it. It's just SOP in Hollywood.
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That particular site is down, but the main BitTorrent site is alive and kicking. Install links are there.
Hmmm. I wonder if the industry's sudden interest in BitTorrent has anything to do with Matrix Reloaded not making as much as the studios hoped.
Not to be overly cynical or anything, but I imagine that some of the studio flacks who promised their bosses that this was the next Spider Man are sweating through their Hugo Boss. But luckily, they've got a perfect way to deflect criticism; blame the Internet bogeyman that's destroying copyrights! Yeah, we didn't overhype this movie to the world (and, more importantly, our investors)! It was, uh, (checks list of P2P networks) BitTorrent!
C|Net ran a little blurb about this the other day. (Scroll down). Interestingly, the site's founder used to work for VersionTracker itself. It must be nice to spit out a little bile after having to be objective about some of the crap that gets posted up there.
Oh, and they are open to expanding onto other platforms: "I'm not much of a Windows guy," he said. "It's certainly possible if we got some contributors that were interested in highlighting the worst of Windows or Linux we might go there."
According to very reliably anonymous coward post-bots, *BSD is dead. So obviously this request came from an undead BSD. Would you want a bunch of zombies and vampires mucking around in your code?
Yes. That must be it. That whole legal wrangle about ownership and the tortured path to the screen (http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Studio/7206/sp ider.html") was just a front. Marvel wanted to screw Lee, so they waited. And waited. And waited. And went through a bankruptcy that may have been averted if they'd had, say, a blockbuster movie starring one of their characters. Then, instead of waiting a few more years, they said "the hell with it, he'll die before it gets to court" and made it. It's just SOP in Hollywood.