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Torrentspy and ISOhunt to start filtering
So what do people think about the news that Torrentspy and ISOhunt are going to filter out copyrighted material using hash values?
Here are my thoughts:
1) Hash values are easily manipulated, so we'll see how effective this is.
2) It's a giant game of whack-a-mole. For every site that goes down, another will pop up.
3) When are the studios going to get it? I have no problem paying for content.... as long as it's at a reasonable price! As a matter of fact, I'd love to do everything through one source such as ITunes. However... for the 4 or so TV shows I watch regularly, it would be $8 per week do buy those shows on ITunes. That's nearly as expensive as basic cable TV, for just four shows! Don't they see that they are WAAAAAY overcharging? I'd love to ditch my cable TV, but not at those prices!
4) Right now the only things I download are not copyrighted, so I doubt this will affect me that much. Between Netflix and my DVR, I've got copyrighted material covered without having to use bittorrent.
5) If anything, bittorrent shows us that people want to download content. Come up with a price point that makes the hassle of going through bittorrent not worth it. I don't even care if you include ads. The money is there for the taking - but why do the studios insist on using a 1985 business model?
Here are my thoughts:
1) Hash values are easily manipulated, so we'll see how effective this is.
2) It's a giant game of whack-a-mole. For every site that goes down, another will pop up.
3) When are the studios going to get it? I have no problem paying for content.... as long as it's at a reasonable price! As a matter of fact, I'd love to do everything through one source such as ITunes. However... for the 4 or so TV shows I watch regularly, it would be $8 per week do buy those shows on ITunes. That's nearly as expensive as basic cable TV, for just four shows! Don't they see that they are WAAAAAY overcharging? I'd love to ditch my cable TV, but not at those prices!
4) Right now the only things I download are not copyrighted, so I doubt this will affect me that much. Between Netflix and my DVR, I've got copyrighted material covered without having to use bittorrent.
5) If anything, bittorrent shows us that people want to download content. Come up with a price point that makes the hassle of going through bittorrent not worth it. I don't even care if you include ads. The money is there for the taking - but why do the studios insist on using a 1985 business model?
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However, in all seriousness, I really do hope your predictions stand true there Kilarney, because if prices were reasonable on media, if there wasn't this stigma of all DVDs must be twenty dollars, then I would totally splurge and buy everything. Actually, to correct myself, single movies are twenty dollars, if season box sets of television shows were fifteen or twenty dollars, then I would certainly buy a collection of all my favorites.
I think what has happened here is that the industry of movies, television, and music for that, really embraces this idea that they're still exclusive, i.e. you cannot get our stuff anywhere else. That may have worked in the mid-twentieth century, but today data can be copied effortlessly. The unfortunate thing is, the market really on a whole hasn't really cared too much, as many people I know still own hundreds of DVDs. Its probably going to take a little more than a percentage of society that the RIAA labels as anarchists to demand a paradigm shift of these archaic business models. However, things like TiVo, and certainly Netflix are a start.
It's like the difference between someone asking you to help them buy fertilizer and someone asking you to help them buy fertilizer and gasoline. Sure, they MIGHT be a farmer needing gas for their tractor...but wouldn't that guy probably already know where to get his stuff and have the means to do so? I'd bet most people using legal torrents aren't using the search engines to find the torrents; they get links from the websites of the content producers or from forums attached to those websites.