Comments on: File sharers: winning the war http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6868 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:59:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6868/comment-page-1#comment-23505 Reader's Write Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:54:43 +0000 #comment-23505 "you could have stripped the region coding from the Jane Fonda DVD and burnt it to a new disc, that way you could keep subs and extra stuff. Don't download crappy divx. Don't download crappy divx." I agree completely. Download XviD! It's a legal codec that's free. Remember that nearly all DivX files found online are copies of movies or TV shows and DivX is supposed to be a commercial product. When you play a copied movie with DivX codec you are violating 2 copyrights, since 99.9% of the time the movie was encoded with an illegal copy. Meanwhile, XviD is free, although you can't avoid violation #1. But who cares right? “you could have stripped the region coding from the Jane Fonda DVD and burnt it to a new disc, that way you could keep subs and extra stuff. Don’t download crappy divx. Don’t download crappy divx.”

I agree completely. Download XviD! It’s a legal codec that’s free. Remember that nearly all DivX files found online are copies of movies or TV shows and DivX is supposed to be a commercial product. When you play a copied movie with DivX codec you are violating 2 copyrights, since 99.9% of the time the movie was encoded with an illegal copy. Meanwhile, XviD is free, although you can’t avoid violation #1. But who cares right?

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6868/comment-page-1#comment-23499 Reader's Write Sun, 06 Nov 2005 07:09:00 +0000 #comment-23499 The article never states that the downloaded video files are better, only that there's no problems with region-encoding. Besides, it might not be "better", but if you manage to download the DVD iso or a high quality 1.4GB divx version, it's pretty much the same. I don't have 5.1 sound, so that part doesn't really affect me at all. Oh, how many times have I rented a movie only to find the dvd all scratched and sometimes not play at all! How many times did I download a cool movie only to find cleverly disguised porn! The article never states that the downloaded video files are better, only that there’s no problems with region-encoding. Besides, it might not be “better”, but if you manage to download the DVD iso or a high quality 1.4GB divx version, it’s pretty much the same.

I don’t have 5.1 sound, so that part doesn’t really affect me at all.

Oh, how many times have I rented a movie only to find the dvd all scratched and sometimes not play at all!

How many times did I download a cool movie only to find cleverly disguised porn!

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6868/comment-page-1#comment-23498 Reader's Write Sun, 06 Nov 2005 06:45:01 +0000 #comment-23498 DSP effects!?! Blah! Blah I say! Talk about utter garbage. Now, in the case of MP3 files, which are quite lossy, I may agree that DSP effects are needed, but this is precicely because the format is lossy. Your using effects to try to fill in some of what was lost in the encoding process. I suppose in the case of a improperly mastered CD this MAY also apply, and there is no shortage of those these days. In that case however, it's mostly overdriven stuff to the point of clipping, and no DSP effect will help that. But I would not think of applying DSP effects to a properly mastered CD, especially a remastered one. I prefer to listen to the material to way it was meant to be heard by the original artist if at all possible. Going to a live performance will always be the best method of achieving that goal, but that's clearly impractical, so a properly matered CD is the next best thing. In my opinion, DSP effects clearly ruin the ambiance of such albums. Then again, I'm not cheap and have a half way decent system that I'm happy with. You don't need to spend a lot to get decent sound, honestly. Not using lossy formats goes a long way as well. Regarding movies, I've never downloaded a show or movie that was clearly better than a store bought DVD, ever. Close on rare occasions with HDTV television shows, but never superior. You also lose the 5.1 audio most of the time too. I call bull shit on this article. That of course doesn't mean I don't use P2P to download shows and the occasional movie, which I do. It's a great way to get a heads up on shows before they play locally for example, or to get something you missed because they changed the time on you and your VCR/PVR didn't record it. With movies I prefer to rent them. Blockbuster often gives free rentals if cetain movies arent in, which most of the time their not ever since introducing their no late fees plan lol. DSP effects!?! Blah! Blah I say! Talk about utter garbage. Now, in the case of MP3 files, which are quite lossy, I may agree that DSP effects are needed, but this is precicely because the format is lossy. Your using effects to try to fill in some of what was lost in the encoding process. I suppose in the case of a improperly mastered CD this MAY also apply, and there is no shortage of those these days. In that case however, it’s mostly overdriven stuff to the point of clipping, and no DSP effect will help that. But I would not think of applying DSP effects to a properly mastered CD, especially a remastered one. I prefer to listen to the material to way it was meant to be heard by the original artist if at all possible. Going to a live performance will always be the best method of achieving that goal, but that’s clearly impractical, so a properly matered CD is the next best thing. In my opinion, DSP effects clearly ruin the ambiance of such albums. Then again, I’m not cheap and have a half way decent system that I’m happy with. You don’t need to spend a lot to get decent sound, honestly. Not using lossy formats goes a long way as well.

Regarding movies, I’ve never downloaded a show or movie that was clearly better than a store bought DVD, ever. Close on rare occasions with HDTV television shows, but never superior. You also lose the 5.1 audio most of the time too. I call bull shit on this article. That of course doesn’t mean I don’t use P2P to download shows and the occasional movie, which I do. It’s a great way to get a heads up on shows before they play locally for example, or to get something you missed because they changed the time on you and your VCR/PVR didn’t record it. With movies I prefer to rent them. Blockbuster often gives free rentals if cetain movies arent in, which most of the time their not ever since introducing their no late fees plan lol.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6868/comment-page-1#comment-23484 Reader's Write Sun, 06 Nov 2005 00:20:00 +0000 #comment-23484 With good dsp effects, like those provided by Winamp + DFX, mp3's can sound 100 times better than an original cd. Often cd's sound flat, liveless, unless of course you want to buy the most expensive sound system available. While with dsp effects, mp3's can sound great even on very modest systems. With good dsp effects, like those provided by Winamp + DFX, mp3’s can sound 100 times better than an original cd.

Often cd’s sound flat, liveless, unless of course you want to buy the most expensive sound system available. While with dsp effects, mp3’s can sound great even on very modest systems.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6868/comment-page-1#comment-23480 Reader's Write Sat, 05 Nov 2005 22:35:27 +0000 #comment-23480 A thought occurred to me. We download MP3 files, not because we get the same sound quality, but because the files are compressed and take up less space. Meaning we could store more songs on a smaller hard drive. What seems odd is that the record companies are rushing to provide low bitrate, DRM'ed music while at the same time, disc storage is getting larger and cheaper. Pretty soon it will reach the point where actual CD quality WAV files will be desired over compressed MP3 files. Even now, with 300GB hard drives, you can store well over 300 complete uncompressed CD's, and that includes all of the crappy songs. When this becomes the choice format, what do you think will happen to all these compressed music download sites ? A thought occurred to me. We download MP3 files, not because we get the same sound quality, but because the files are compressed and take up less space. Meaning we could store more songs on a smaller hard drive. What seems odd is that the record companies are rushing to provide low bitrate, DRM’ed music while at the same time, disc storage is getting larger and cheaper. Pretty soon it will reach the point where actual CD quality WAV files will be desired over compressed MP3 files. Even now, with 300GB hard drives, you can store well over 300 complete uncompressed CD’s, and that includes all of the crappy songs. When this becomes the choice format, what do you think will happen to all these compressed music download sites ?

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6868/comment-page-1#comment-23479 Reader's Write Sat, 05 Nov 2005 22:22:35 +0000 #comment-23479 hey you could have stripped the region coding from the Jane Fonda DVD and burnt it to a new disc, that way you could keep subs and extra stuff. Don't download crappy divx. hey

you could have stripped the region coding from the Jane Fonda DVD and burnt it to a new disc, that way you could keep subs and extra stuff. Don’t download crappy divx.

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