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Torrent Giant, The Pirate Bay sold, will go legal
Carol Haynes:
Im trying to understand how they can go legal.. Like, yeah maybe 2$ (Idk the actual price, but I'm just guessing) for an album is fine. But if Adobe Photoshop (and other software) torrents exist, how can it be worth the companies time? Why would Adobe want the small small cut of what TPB gets preferred to the large cut (pure profit) they get from their sale?
-Loki15 (July 02, 2009, 02:16 PM)
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The other question to be answered is how are they going to vet all of the torrents (assuming they are going to keep it a torrent site)? Currently the website doesn't actually have any copies of the files available for download - are they really going to vet every single file that gets posted? If so are they going to be legally liable for any malware that is propogated via a commercial site - surely if they are a commercial entitiy they will have a duty of care to their customers?
Loki15:
The other question to be answered is how are they going to vet all of the torrents (assuming they are going to keep it a torrent site)? Currently the website doesn't actually have any copies of the files available for download - are they really going to vet every single file that gets posted? If so are they going to be legally liable for any malware that is propogated via a commercial site - surely if they are a commercial entitiy they will have a duty of care to their customers?
-Carol Haynes (July 02, 2009, 03:50 PM)
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Very very true. Since people will pay for the downloads, the company is held liable for them to be clean. I don't think the company who bought them out know what they are getting themselves into.
Carol Haynes:
I suspect all they really bought is the name. I can't see how they could begin to adapt TPB's business model into a legitimate commercial enterprise.
Loki15:
There's no way they will, with sites like Mininova, and Demonoid out there, it will be nearly impossible to charge for torrents. If a big company with high funding, and bought all the torrent sites, then I think they could. But no way, even with knocking the top of the pyramid off.
Dormouse:
Any Spotify users here who can vouch for how good or annoying it is?
-nosh (July 02, 2009, 02:27 AM)
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Pretty wonderful really. No noticeable lag, huge choice (though not complete by any means, and especially light on some types of music). Certainly made me wonder how much point there is in having hard drives devoted to storing music. You're not supposed to record it, but you can and programs like Replay Music will name most tracks accurately as they do it.
Not sure how well the business plan will work out in the end or where the income will come from (enough people paying, lots more ads, addon benefits?), but if there is enough music, and I can put it on my players when I want (ie recording allowed), and can use it on my phone etc, I'd be happy to pay a subscription. And I probably wouldn't keep huge amounts of music stored long-term (easier to get it again from Spotify) ... and I had thought I was a hard core supporter of actually owning CDs etc (never really saw the attraction of buying tracks from iTunes etc) :huh:
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