Bittorrent goes unstealth
Tom's Hardware Guide: Tom's Hard News. The conventional wisdom in Hollywood is that music is lost, but DVDs and movies aren't because they are so big.
For the last year, Ludwig has been saying it just ain't so. If you go to most college campuses, folks watch all their TV series via Bittorrent downloads. I've tried it and it is amazing. A 1GB MPEG4 file of the latest Alias is available that night and you can download it over broadband in about 1 hour. The quality is HD level.
Well, someone in Hollywood is finally noticing. Apparently 1/3 of the bandwidth on the Internet is now Bit Torrent feeds.
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I think that the movie distributors are catching on to what's happening, judging by the squeals, though I'd have though that Bittorrent is not so big outside academia. P2P apps such as Ares and Warez are very big (and contain no spyware, unlike some others).
Based in the UK, which gets Hollywood releases long after US audiences, my family now watches movies as they are first released States-side :-)
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November 6, 2004 4:02 AM