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Jan. 1st, 2005
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Jan. 1st, 2005 05:31 pmIn the year 2005 I resolve to: |
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the bittorrent effect
Jan. 1st, 2005 10:14 pman interesting article at wired.com discusses bittorrent and how it has essentially turned the internet into the world's tivo for free. the surface issues of piracy are of course addressed, but what's interesting about this article is that it also touches on the ramifications of bittorrent to television and film from a content provider standpoint. to wit:
that's what they should be worried about. just as blogs have broken MSM's stranglehold on news, so too will bittorrent, and its ancestors, break "hollywood's" stranglehold on film and television.
indy, they're digging in the wrong place.
One example of how the world has already changed: Gary Lerhaupt, a graduate student in computer science at Stanford, became fascinated with Outfoxed, the documentary critical of Fox News, and thought more people should see it. So he convinced the film's producer to let him put a chunk of it on his Web site for free, as a 500-Mbyte torrent. Within two months, nearly 1,500 people downloaded it. That's almost 750 gigs of traffic, a heck of a wallop. But to get the ball rolling, Lerhaupt's site needed to serve up only 5 gigs. After that, the peers took over and hosted it themselves. His bill for that bandwidth? $4. There are drinks at Starbucks that cost more. "It's amazing - I'm a movie distributor," he says. "If I had my own content, I'd be a TV station."
that's what they should be worried about. just as blogs have broken MSM's stranglehold on news, so too will bittorrent, and its ancestors, break "hollywood's" stranglehold on film and television.
indy, they're digging in the wrong place.
the bittorrent effect
Jan. 1st, 2005 10:14 pman interesting article at wired.com discusses bittorrent and how it has essentially turned the internet into the world's tivo for free. the surface issues of piracy are of course addressed, but what's interesting about this article is that it also touches on the ramifications of bittorrent to television and film from a content provider standpoint. to wit:
that's what they should be worried about. just as blogs have broken MSM's stranglehold on news, so too will bittorrent, and its ancestors, break "hollywood's" stranglehold on film and television.
indy, they're digging in the wrong place.
One example of how the world has already changed: Gary Lerhaupt, a graduate student in computer science at Stanford, became fascinated with Outfoxed, the documentary critical of Fox News, and thought more people should see it. So he convinced the film's producer to let him put a chunk of it on his Web site for free, as a 500-Mbyte torrent. Within two months, nearly 1,500 people downloaded it. That's almost 750 gigs of traffic, a heck of a wallop. But to get the ball rolling, Lerhaupt's site needed to serve up only 5 gigs. After that, the peers took over and hosted it themselves. His bill for that bandwidth? $4. There are drinks at Starbucks that cost more. "It's amazing - I'm a movie distributor," he says. "If I had my own content, I'd be a TV station."
that's what they should be worried about. just as blogs have broken MSM's stranglehold on news, so too will bittorrent, and its ancestors, break "hollywood's" stranglehold on film and television.
indy, they're digging in the wrong place.
and in related news
Jan. 1st, 2005 10:30 pm[these boys are slow.]
except for the part that now that we've all decided that your show doesn't suck, we're going to watch it on our 35" tv screens when it airs on Skiffy instead of on a 4x6" window on my laptop.
my time is precious. those ratbastards intentionally schedule genre shows against other genre shows, forcing the target audience to choose, instead of recognizing that the audience would quite likely watch them all. or they schedule on the crappiest nights on the planet and then a show that did really well in the UK gets cancelled after two or three eps in the US and i don't get to see the damned thing.
what they keep missing is the nature of what bittorrent popularity brings to a product, automatic street cred. instavetting. the wella balsam effect ad infinitum.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
boofadil tells us that her buddy uploaded Galactica and swears it don't suck. she takes the risk and downloads an ep. and guess what? it don't suck. she tells themonkeycabal, who tells me. she also tells trajictale and sorlklewis. guess what we all do? post it on our lj's. guess what are all connected by friending? our lj's. and our friends have friended friends who have friended other friends who have friended other friends, and so on and so on and so on.
hey ron? stop thinking without permission. it always ends badly.
"...we're flattered and happy that you're so excited to see the new season of Battlestar Galactica and appreciate the support. However, beyond the fact that getting episodes over the internet is illegal it's also potentially very damaging to the show itself.
except for the part that now that we've all decided that your show doesn't suck, we're going to watch it on our 35" tv screens when it airs on Skiffy instead of on a 4x6" window on my laptop.
my time is precious. those ratbastards intentionally schedule genre shows against other genre shows, forcing the target audience to choose, instead of recognizing that the audience would quite likely watch them all. or they schedule on the crappiest nights on the planet and then a show that did really well in the UK gets cancelled after two or three eps in the US and i don't get to see the damned thing.
what they keep missing is the nature of what bittorrent popularity brings to a product, automatic street cred. instavetting. the wella balsam effect ad infinitum.
boofadil tells us that her buddy uploaded Galactica and swears it don't suck. she takes the risk and downloads an ep. and guess what? it don't suck. she tells themonkeycabal, who tells me. she also tells trajictale and sorlklewis. guess what we all do? post it on our lj's. guess what are all connected by friending? our lj's. and our friends have friended friends who have friended other friends who have friended other friends, and so on and so on and so on. hey ron? stop thinking without permission. it always ends badly.
and in related news
Jan. 1st, 2005 10:30 pm[these boys are slow.]
except for the part that now that we've all decided that your show doesn't suck, we're going to watch it on our 35" tv screens when it airs on Skiffy instead of on a 4x6" window on my laptop.
my time is precious. those ratbastards intentionally schedule genre shows against other genre shows, forcing the target audience to choose, instead of recognizing that the audience would quite likely watch them all. or they schedule on the crappiest nights on the planet and then a show that did really well in the UK gets cancelled after two or three eps in the US and i don't get to see the damned thing.
what they keep missing is the nature of what bittorrent popularity brings to a product, automatic street cred. instavetting. the wella balsam effect ad infinitum.boofadil tells us that her buddy uploaded Galactica and swears it don't suck. she takes the risk and downloads an ep. and guess what? it don't suck. she tells themonkeycabal, who tells me. she also tells trajictale and sorlklewis. guess what we all do? post it on our lj's. guess what are all connected by friending? our lj's. and our friends have friended friends who have friended other friends who have friended other friends, and so on and so on and so on.
hey ron? stop thinking without permission. it always ends badly.
"...we're flattered and happy that you're so excited to see the new season of Battlestar Galactica and appreciate the support. However, beyond the fact that getting episodes over the internet is illegal it's also potentially very damaging to the show itself.
except for the part that now that we've all decided that your show doesn't suck, we're going to watch it on our 35" tv screens when it airs on Skiffy instead of on a 4x6" window on my laptop.
my time is precious. those ratbastards intentionally schedule genre shows against other genre shows, forcing the target audience to choose, instead of recognizing that the audience would quite likely watch them all. or they schedule on the crappiest nights on the planet and then a show that did really well in the UK gets cancelled after two or three eps in the US and i don't get to see the damned thing.
what they keep missing is the nature of what bittorrent popularity brings to a product, automatic street cred. instavetting. the wella balsam effect ad infinitum.
boofadil tells us that her buddy uploaded Galactica and swears it don't suck. she takes the risk and downloads an ep. and guess what? it don't suck. she tells themonkeycabal, who tells me. she also tells trajictale and sorlklewis. guess what we all do? post it on our lj's. guess what are all connected by friending? our lj's. and our friends have friended friends who have friended other friends who have friended other friends, and so on and so on and so on. hey ron? stop thinking without permission. it always ends badly.
and in more Galactica news
Jan. 1st, 2005 10:51 pmFrom Dark Horizons:
Sources for Galactica.TV and HNR indicate that the sets are still up and dressed for the recently finished shoot for the 13-episode first season of "Battlestar: Galactica". The reason? In case a second season will be given the green light.
The show, continuing the story from the high rating 2003 mini-series which lead to the first season, began airing the other month on UK's Sky One TV and has proven a big success. The show will not air on US cable television til January and its expected a decision will then be made by Sci-Fi after the first few episodes air as to whether or not to go ahead with a second series.
Should it happen, a February 18th production startup date is tipped to already be set. The production uses the Lions Gate Studios in North Vancouver to film the show.
hat tip: the great link
and they wonder why we download. oy.
emphasis mine
ot update:[and this?] is a groovy website.
and in more Galactica news
Jan. 1st, 2005 10:51 pmFrom Dark Horizons:
Sources for Galactica.TV and HNR indicate that the sets are still up and dressed for the recently finished shoot for the 13-episode first season of "Battlestar: Galactica". The reason? In case a second season will be given the green light.
The show, continuing the story from the high rating 2003 mini-series which lead to the first season, began airing the other month on UK's Sky One TV and has proven a big success. The show will not air on US cable television til January and its expected a decision will then be made by Sci-Fi after the first few episodes air as to whether or not to go ahead with a second series.
Should it happen, a February 18th production startup date is tipped to already be set. The production uses the Lions Gate Studios in North Vancouver to film the show.
hat tip: the great link
and they wonder why we download. oy.
emphasis mine
ot update:[and this?] is a groovy website.
mommy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jan. 1st, 2005 11:40 pmi gotta get me [one of these.] sorlklewis wants one too. i'm willing to share if someone wants to get us one for xmas?
sorlklewis wants one too. i'm willing to share if someone wants to get us one for xmas?mommy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jan. 1st, 2005 11:40 pmi gotta get me [one of these.] sorlklewis wants one too. i'm willing to share if someone wants to get us one for xmas?
sorlklewis wants one too. i'm willing to share if someone wants to get us one for xmas?