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LOS ANGELES (AP) - BitTorrent Inc., developer of a popular online file-sharing tool, said Tuesday it has reached licensing deals that will boost the number of movies and TV shows it can offer as part of a video download service launching next year.
The company has yet to disclose a pricing scheme but has said individual TV shows could be priced as low as US$1, and movies will be sold for about the price of a DVD.
TV shows and most films can be purchased and burned on a backup DVD, although the copy will only play on the computer used to buy the original and not on standard DVD players.
Some films will only be available for viewing a limited number of times.
Ummm... ok. I can download a movie and pay full price for it , after waiting 2 hours for it to download, burn it to a cd , and it will play only on one device in my house. Six months later, when that device breaks and I have to replace it, ALL the movies I bought from the download service, I have to throw out because I will never be able to view them again anywhere on any device ever.
So.. we have user piracy , and now we have an example of company piracy.
Pardon me , but if it's gonna cost as much as a DVD , maybe I'll just by a DVD , that will last for many years, and play on every device in the world , and not bother with the whole download experiance thingy ?
You wanna run a download service ? here's what you do. YOu load special s/w on the users computer that downloads a movie and writes it to a cd or writable dvd. You give them a discount on the price because they used their own equipment to make the copy thus saving you money, and maybe you mark the cd somehow so that it cannot itself be copied.
do that , and it becomes a discount cd / dvd store. Anything short of that, any weird copy schemes play only 3 times , copy twice and then you're toast etc schemes ... better off hitting the store and buying a copy there than fiddling with the online stuff.
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