Comments on: BitTorrent’s Aussie death knell

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:02:03 +0000

How could that B S service of paying 6 bucks and not being able to
keep the movie, be the death Knell of anything , let alone BitTorrent.
Gotta come up with something better than that lame attempt for sure.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 23:15:45 +0000

“…by the way would you like to buy a song while you are here for $1.89 Aus?”

Keep in mind, when you pay to download a song file you are not BUYING anything. You are purchasing a license to listen to the song. How you use this file is strictly controlled by the copyright “owner” via the DRM malware imbedded in the file.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:53:48 +0000

Don’t want your content to expire? (Or become ‘annulled’ in the vernacular of ZDNet’s description of the implementation of DRM as ‘CRAP’.)

Find and download one of the numerous ‘recorder’ programs available on-line that capture exactly what is coming out of your video card and sound card and duly records it. You probably need to have significant hard drive space available and do some post-processing, but you will have a very slightly degraded copy of what you viewed, plus no need to pay to download it ever again, no matter when it expires.

If you do this, you will have exploited the infamous ‘Analog Hole’ and will no doubt wind up on Big Content’s “A-Hole List.”

–TurboGeek

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:06:25 +0000

UPDATE: I remembered it was Nature’s Cure (not plugging, in fact I used the stuff, it don’t work) and the place is MoiveLink http://www.naturescure.com/movielink/ (still not plugging, I just wanted 2 let you know it’s been in the US and actually this one I think is a little better w/ the pricing and promotions)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:01:23 +0000

Actually, I went to a site about 2 months ago now I think that was in the US that allowed downloads of movies. I actually got the site from a coupon I saw in the store of a box of acne stuff, it gave 1 free movie download. I forget the place, but it was actually pretty resonably priced, and they even had 99cent downloads of the day and student discounts. And to those who are bitching that they’re paying and they can’t own the movie, it’s an online video store, not an online store, return your movies, or pay the price!!!!… oh yeah, be kind… rewind (remember that?… it was before dvds… those times sucked… in quality that is)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 07:26:31 +0000

Yep…. a pile of horse s*it if you ask me. There are some people on this earth with very little intelligence. Seems like those geniuses at BigBong think that the end user falls into this category…. (well, perhaps their thoughts about Mac users are justified, but I digress). I’d love to see the results of a survey which questions how many BigBong employees actually use this service themselves?

Oh yes… please rip me off time and time again… just love throwing money away.

And what about the download costs?… sure, they’re quick to “delete” the movie, but are they willing to reimburse the download costs? Sh*t no…. it all adds up!

BidBong should do the electronic world a favour and delete themselves….

That’s my $5.95…. this message will delete itself once it’s viewed.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:30:34 +0000

Not me, BT is *****g this new stoopid service up.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:45:59 +0000

MORE MONEY FOR THE CORPS… HAVENT THEY MADE ENOUGH ???

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:50:59 +0000

It’s in Aussie dollars and $1 Aus = about 75 US cents – still pretty expensive. I don’t think they really expect many people to use the service. Just another token nod to the digital revolution – of course we GET the internet … see look at this service, and by the way would you like to buy a song while you are here for $1.89 Aus?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:54:31 +0000

Question answered.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:27:09 +0000

Oz? Oz? Isnt that where Dorothy went? You probably mean Aus, for Australia. Yeah and Big Pond aren’t getting any of my money, I’ll be buying DVD’s and while we’re on the subject of P2P etc, there’s a story here at this aussie site http://www.gasbo.net/stargate/news.htm that may interest all

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:28:45 +0000

if that is almost 6$ USD that is friggin outrageous and they must be smoking something to think even the stupidest of people would stop using bittorrent for some crap like that.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:37:21 +0000

Seriously, who would pay good money to get repeatedly fucked over like that?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:15:53 +0000

“The movie expires after a finite amount of times. But the user is welcome to purchase the download again and again and again”

They try to make it sound like its a good thing.. ..
Stupid.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:04:02 +0000

No, this is for real.

BigPond Movies – Brought to you by the ISP that counts downloads AND uploads in your monthly allowance.

Yuck!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:36:35 +0000

IS this another spoof, or is it real news? If spoof, then [anything goes here]. If real, then what a load of crap; do content providers really think charging multiple times for the same thing is the way to go, that people won’t mind. Geeeeeeesh.