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And the winner for the next gen format war is... BitTorrent!
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by nk | August 23, 2007 at 12:01 pm
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You thought the war is between HD DVD and BluRay. Let's see some recent news.
SuprNova: The Legend Returns Today
The legendary BitTorrent site “SuprNova” will return today, courtesy of The Pirate Bay. Not surprisingly, the new and improved SuprNova has a special message to the copyright police: “You are the past and the forgotten, we are the Internet and the future”.
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SuprNova crawls more than 25.000 trackers and has a huge database of
more than 1.000.000 torrents with nearly 25.000.000 peers. This means
that SuprNova will start where it left of, as one of the biggest
BitTorrent indexing sites.
Verizon's FiOS TV Approved by Garden City, N.Y.
Residents of this Long Island community are a major step closer to having a real choice for their cable television services, thanks to a newly approved agreement authorizing Verizon to offer its FiOS TV service, delivered over the most advanced fiber-optic network straight to customers' homes.
Same in Framingham, MA, Norwood, MA, Wilsonville, OR and so on. FiOS means "Fiber Optic Service", in layman terms you get very fast Internet, big selection of TV programmes in better quality (and of course phone if you still need a landline).
Two Studios to Support HD DVD Over Rival
Paramount and DreamWorks Animation together will receive about $150 million in financial incentives for their commitment to HD DVD, according to two Viacom executives with knowledge of the deal but who asked not to be identified.
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The two studios may have left themselves wiggle room, however.
Paramount’s agreement to use only HD DVD is limited to only 18 months.
And Paramount noted that no films directed by Steven Spielberg were included in the deal
Let me decode the latter: the folks behind HD DVD paid a huge amount of money to keep the bloat floating but even Paramount knows that it's bad to ignore a significant amount of customer and no money on Earth would stop them to sell Spielberg to Blu Ray owners.
What comes out of this? I think customers will eventually get fed up of this haggling and just turn to BitTorrent. DRM and format wars will just make people stay away in droves. The rate of changing computers have slowed down significantly in the recent years -- and while a lot of older computers can easily play downloaded HD films nothing short of a HDCP equipped shiny new computer running Vista will play the disks.
And the FiOS news above mean it'll take no time for them to download the movies. Is it illegal? Who cares, really?
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at 12:44 on August 23rd, 2007
nk, this is good stuff.
I completely agree. In a search for perfect protection they are making it hard to use and expensive.