BitTorrent, described as Hollywood's version of the Napster scourge that rocked the music industry several years ago, has become an increasingly popular way for Internet users to get movies, songs, and video games.
Is it just my imagination, or is that INCREDIBLY slanted and wrong?
I'd bet it's more likely Intel's new BTX Form Factor Good for both sides-- Intel gets a bunch of sales for special BTX motherboards, Microsoft gets tiny Thermally-OMG-Advantaged systems.
If I know anything about newbies to linux, practically still being one myself, people wonder where their programs are.
Here's an example of what search will do:
"Okay, so let's try making a document... it says to use oowriter.... Now where's that at? Bah, this file structure makes no sense!
Let's use search!"
*shows oowriter in/usr/bin*
"/usr/bin/? How am I supposed to remember that? I'm moving it./programs/oowriter/oowriter!"
It looks to me like this new client is adding alot of the features other clients added in themselves.
The main part being the configurations from a GUI.
Perhaps he's trying to get everyone using HIS client, so there's more control over the populus of BT users?
When you connect to a server of any kind, like the HTTP server on slashdot.org, you are connecting to that server on a specified port. You are connecting to THEM, so you don't need a port open and accepting connections locally.
This is the same with BitTorrent. You are connecting to peers, and peers are trying to connect to you on a certain port. So, Port Open clients can get connections from Firewalled clients. And Firewalled clients can connect to Port Open clients. But Firewalled clients cannot connect to Firewalled clients.
So, even if you are behind a firewall, YOU CAN USE BITTORRENT PLEASE mod this up, so I never have to see that naive argument again.
http://albinoblacksheep.com/flash/sellswindows.php
There's a flash version, which should work a bit better on linux than a WMV.
Besides, Ebaumsworld is terrible >.>
I'd like to remind everyone to RTFAQ: From the FAQ section at ExLite.net: 10. Can I use eXlite with linux?
Yes you can, but only when using wine, instructions here.
Isn't it possible that it's actually legal because they DID own a license for it?
That's one of the reasons BitTorrent and ROM sites aren't killed right away: The files are provided for those who have legal rights to the data, but they needed it in another form (i.e. on a computer) or in another location (for torrenting)
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I deal with a number of people in my position in other schools. Without fail, the computer "literacy" classes in those schools is training in Microsoft Office. They're just training kids to use a particular version of a particular product from ONE company. They're not teaching them the concepts behind a modern word processor, they're training them how to click buttons in Word.
I agree wholeheartedly! I am a sophomore in High School, and I constantly see examples of students being labelled "Computer Competent" when they can only work around in an MS Office environment.
Almost every GUI application, ESPECIALLY MS Office, is almost self explanatory if you take the time to look and think. Of course, the ability to teach yourself from information the GUI gives you develops over time, so teaching how to gather such information would be a MUCH better skill than "How to do stuff in Microsoft Programs"
I'm thinking of recommending this test to my school board, as it is a much better gauge of computer competency then their current Monopoly-worship teachings.
Azureus works great on many platforms, as it is written in Java.
However, some of the windows users I know have complained that they download slower on it, for some reason. I have no explanation for it, other than perhaps because it tries to use one port for incoming connections.
Anyway, another good client, which I recommended if you're not running multiple torrents, is Bit Tornado, which has alot of options and monitoring features, plus it is open source!
Why hasn't somebody created a service or open-source system to let artists sell their owns CDs via the web?
I imagine the system wouldn't be a terribly hard coding problem, there is already some online store software about. As for offering it as a service, it wouldn't be too hard to cover up for the bandwidth/hosting costs and still allow musical artists to keep much of the profit themselves. Kind of like how MovableType did things; made a blog application, gave it away for free, and offered to set it up/host it for you for a fee.
With new developments such as FLAC, it wouldn't be hard to distribute replicas of albums online, without the middle man.
It seems to me that this whole music piracy issue stems from the financial inconvenience of legally getting music, and the group attacking us because of it is the one responsible for the problem.
The comments on that page seem to be referring to the edited, soft-core only version of the movie. (The article mentions the DVD ships with two versions of the movie)
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BitTorrent, described as Hollywood's version of the Napster scourge that rocked the music industry several years ago, has become an increasingly popular way for Internet users to get movies, songs, and video games. Is it just my imagination, or is that INCREDIBLY slanted and wrong?
I'd bet it's more likely Intel's new BTX Form Factor
Good for both sides-- Intel gets a bunch of sales for special BTX motherboards, Microsoft gets tiny Thermally-OMG-Advantaged systems.
If I know anything about newbies to linux, practically still being one myself, people wonder where their programs are. Here's an example of what search will do: "Okay, so let's try making a document... it says to use oowriter.... Now where's that at? Bah, this file structure makes no sense! Let's use search!" *shows oowriter in /usr/bin*
"/usr/bin/? How am I supposed to remember that? I'm moving it. /programs/oowriter/oowriter!"
...Can you put linux on it?
It looks to me like this new client is adding alot of the features other clients added in themselves. The main part being the configurations from a GUI. Perhaps he's trying to get everyone using HIS client, so there's more control over the populus of BT users?
...What was the first site ever to be Slashdotted?
People need to understand how this works.
When you connect to a server of any kind, like the HTTP server on slashdot.org, you are connecting to that server on a specified port. You are connecting to THEM, so you don't need a port open and accepting connections locally.
This is the same with BitTorrent. You are connecting to peers, and peers are trying to connect to you on a certain port.
So, Port Open clients can get connections from Firewalled clients.
And Firewalled clients can connect to Port Open clients.
But Firewalled clients cannot connect to Firewalled clients.
So, even if you are behind a firewall, YOU CAN USE BITTORRENT
PLEASE mod this up, so I never have to see that naive argument again.
http://albinoblacksheep.com/flash/sellswindows.php
There's a flash version, which should work a bit better on linux than a WMV.
Besides, Ebaumsworld is terrible >.>
I'd like to remind everyone to RTFAQ:
From the FAQ section at ExLite.net:
10. Can I use eXlite with linux?
Yes you can, but only when using wine, instructions here.
In Soviet Russia, Internet Uses YOU!
Isn't it possible that it's actually legal because they DID own a license for it? That's one of the reasons BitTorrent and ROM sites aren't killed right away: The files are provided for those who have legal rights to the data, but they needed it in another form (i.e. on a computer) or in another location (for torrenting)
They already have that, it's called NyQuil :P
I deal with a number of people in my position in other schools. Without fail, the computer "literacy" classes in those schools is training in Microsoft Office. They're just training kids to use a particular version of a particular product from ONE company. They're not teaching them the concepts behind a modern word processor, they're training them how to click buttons in Word.
I agree wholeheartedly! I am a sophomore in High School, and I constantly see examples of students being labelled "Computer Competent" when they can only work around in an MS Office environment.
Almost every GUI application, ESPECIALLY MS Office, is almost self explanatory if you take the time to look and think. Of course, the ability to teach yourself from information the GUI gives you develops over time, so teaching how to gather such information would be a MUCH better skill than "How to do stuff in Microsoft Programs"
I'm thinking of recommending this test to my school board, as it is a much better gauge of computer competency then their current Monopoly-worship teachings.
Azureus works great on many platforms, as it is written in Java. However, some of the windows users I know have complained that they download slower on it, for some reason. I have no explanation for it, other than perhaps because it tries to use one port for incoming connections. Anyway, another good client, which I recommended if you're not running multiple torrents, is Bit Tornado, which has alot of options and monitoring features, plus it is open source!
Thanks for writing that article!
Now we all have to find another way to P2P!
Why hasn't somebody created a service or open-source system to let artists sell their owns CDs via the web?
I imagine the system wouldn't be a terribly hard coding problem, there is already some online store software about. As for offering it as a service, it wouldn't be too hard to cover up for the bandwidth/hosting costs and still allow musical artists to keep much of the profit themselves.
Kind of like how MovableType did things; made a blog application, gave it away for free, and offered to set it up/host it for you for a fee.
With new developments such as FLAC, it wouldn't be hard to distribute replicas of albums online, without the middle man.
It seems to me that this whole music piracy issue stems from the financial inconvenience of legally getting music, and the group attacking us because of it is the one responsible for the problem.
Let's cut him out.
The comments on that page seem to be referring to the edited, soft-core only version of the movie. (The article mentions the DVD ships with two versions of the movie)
Perhaps the unedited version is what is new?