Yeah, because Easynews and the hundreds of companies like them were shut down so fast for the exact same thing.
The difference here is GUBA is shouting from the rooftops that they're hosting copyrighted files. Easynews, Giganews, etc., all kept it relatively obscure, just saying "we index all of Usenet" which was understood by smart users and generally ignored by everyone else. Now all of the basic users who are just now figuring out how Bitorrent works are going to say, "Wha? I can get music and movies on Usenet?" and, frankly, where the basic users go, so goes the RIAA.
I have a better idea. Instead of encrypting their DVDs, just mail them out along with a little note saying that the last guy to be caught pirating screeners died in police custody. I think pirates will get the hint.
You know where wikis fail? Cross-referencing. On TVTome, if I wanted to know what television shows X has written, I could click on his name and they'd be listed. Any one of thousands of writers had their own page with their credits on it, generated automatically based on the info provided for individual television episodes. Now while TVIV seems like a good resource for information about specific shows, it's simply an impossible task to have a purely human edited database succeed at something that requires such a vast amount of cross-referencing as this would.
It's one thing that only 116 shows are listed, but consider the fact that Aaron Sorkin, Joss Whedon, J.J Abrams and any number of other television big shots have no pages whatsoever. Individual credits are just as important to a television database as episode listings, airdates, summaries, etc., and if those guys don't even have pages of their own yet, I don't like the odds of smaller tv writers who only have one or two episodes to their credit ever being included. And unfortunately that's a necessity for a database like this, and also unlikely ever to be included in a pure wiki.
I think the days of vast quality improvement with each version of Divx are over. Maybe it's because the MPEG-4 standard is necessarily restrictive, but Divx hasn't made any significant quality advances since version 5 (and between 5 and 6 managed to take a couple of steps backwards before moving forwards again). At this point it's more about optimizations and marketable features, which is why the "menus" and the Divx Player are getting so much attention. The codec itself is, and has been, pretty static and will be for well into the future as long as it stays MPEG-4 compliant.
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Yeah, because Easynews and the hundreds of companies like them were shut down so fast for the exact same thing.
The difference here is GUBA is shouting from the rooftops that they're hosting copyrighted files. Easynews, Giganews, etc., all kept it relatively obscure, just saying "we index all of Usenet" which was understood by smart users and generally ignored by everyone else. Now all of the basic users who are just now figuring out how Bitorrent works are going to say, "Wha? I can get music and movies on Usenet?" and, frankly, where the basic users go, so goes the RIAA.
I have a better idea. Instead of encrypting their DVDs, just mail them out along with a little note saying that the last guy to be caught pirating screeners died in police custody. I think pirates will get the hint.
You know where wikis fail? Cross-referencing. On TVTome, if I wanted to know what television shows X has written, I could click on his name and they'd be listed. Any one of thousands of writers had their own page with their credits on it, generated automatically based on the info provided for individual television episodes. Now while TVIV seems like a good resource for information about specific shows, it's simply an impossible task to have a purely human edited database succeed at something that requires such a vast amount of cross-referencing as this would.
It's one thing that only 116 shows are listed, but consider the fact that Aaron Sorkin, Joss Whedon, J.J Abrams and any number of other television big shots have no pages whatsoever. Individual credits are just as important to a television database as episode listings, airdates, summaries, etc., and if those guys don't even have pages of their own yet, I don't like the odds of smaller tv writers who only have one or two episodes to their credit ever being included. And unfortunately that's a necessity for a database like this, and also unlikely ever to be included in a pure wiki.
I think the days of vast quality improvement with each version of Divx are over. Maybe it's because the MPEG-4 standard is necessarily restrictive, but Divx hasn't made any significant quality advances since version 5 (and between 5 and 6 managed to take a couple of steps backwards before moving forwards again). At this point it's more about optimizations and marketable features, which is why the "menus" and the Divx Player are getting so much attention. The codec itself is, and has been, pretty static and will be for well into the future as long as it stays MPEG-4 compliant.
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