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Spain bans P2P file sharing

AMCRambler

AMCRambler

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I hope this isn't a sign of things to come! It kind of makes me laugh though, because Spain just shot themselves in the foot. The internet is becoming the new medium for distribution of movies, music, all things digital. By banning P2P this new emerging area of e-commerce has been destroyed in their country.
I don't know about everybody else, but as soon as internet connections become fast enough, I see movie rental stores becoming obsolete. You'll just sign on line, rent your movie, when the due date is up, it's no longer playable. Simple as that. The same will go for purchasing movies. Who will go to Best Buy or Circuit City to buy a movie when they can purchase it online for cheaper and have it downloaded in 15 minutes? I predict this long being repealed wicked fast over there.
 
They also recently passed a "copyright tax" on blank media, including cdr, dvdr and flash drives.

And I thought it was getting bad in the US.
 
Originally posted by: AMCRambler
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I hope this isn't a sign of things to come! It kind of makes me laugh though, because Spain just shot themselves in the foot. The internet is becoming the new medium for distribution of movies, music, all things digital. By banning P2P this new emerging area of e-commerce has been destroyed in their country.
I don't know about everybody else, but as soon as internet connections become fast enough, I see movie rental stores becoming obsolete. You'll just sign on line, rent your movie, when the due date is up, it's no longer playable. Simple as that. The same will go for purchasing movies. Who will go to Best Buy or Circuit City to buy a movie when they can purchase it online for cheaper and have it downloaded in 15 minutes? I predict this long being repealed wicked fast over there.
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people who want a hard copy of the movie?
 
Originally posted by: AMCRambler
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I hope this isn't a sign of things to come! It kind of makes me laugh though, because Spain just shot themselves in the foot. The internet is becoming the new medium for distribution of movies, music, all things digital. By banning P2P this new emerging area of e-commerce has been destroyed in their country.
I don't know about everybody else, but as soon as internet connections become fast enough, I see movie rental stores becoming obsolete. You'll just sign on line, rent your movie, when the due date is up, it's no longer playable. Simple as that. The same will go for purchasing movies. Who will go to Best Buy or Circuit City to buy a movie when they can purchase it online for cheaper and have it downloaded in 15 minutes? I predict this long being repealed wicked fast over there.
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The local cable company already has "on demand" movies for people with digital cable. You pick a movie you want to watch, and you start it when you want to. You can pause it, rewind it, etc as many times as you want for a given period of time.
 
Originally posted by: MelikK
just for argument sake, would you pay double just to get a hard copy?
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how much is the download price?

personally, as long as i can burn it to my own dvd, i don't care. but i know there are people out there who like to have the original hard copy.
 
didn't Warner Bros. recently announced they would use bittorrent to distribute their movies (protected by DRM)? which IMO was a great move. they saw the success music had with itunes, and is embracing the new technology instead of banning it
 
there are still people who are on dial-up... and broadband has been around for how many years now ?
 
i doubt it is very long before itunes uses a torrent-like setup to distribute HD tv shows.

MS considered using it to distribute the vista beta, but their programmers aren't as smart as the blizzard guys, so MS couldn't guarantee that it was the right product end users were getting. (WoW uses torrent-like sharing to distribute patches through an integrated client, last i checked)
 
btw, how are they banning P2P? are they just saying you aren't allowed to use this or that program or is there something their ISPs are doing to block that type of traffic or what?

even if they do ban general P2P, the companies that make money will be an exception and ahve their own p2p program or something like that
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
i doubt it is very long before itunes uses a torrent-like setup to distribute HD tv shows.

MS considered using it to distribute the vista beta, but their programmers aren't as smart as the blizzard guys, so MS couldn't guarantee that it was the right product end users were getting. (WoW uses torrent-like sharing to distribute patches through an integrated client, last i checked)
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uh, smart as the blizzard guys? When I played WoW, 99% of the time the p2p didn't work.
 
Way to not read the article at all.

A Spanish intellectual property law has finally banned unauthorized peer-to-peer file-sharing in Spain, making it a civil offense even to download content for personal use.
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I think a legitimate service would thus be allowed to exist and be used....
I think it's been banned in much the same way that most P2P things are illegal (downloading pirated material) - it's not legal, but it's still doable, you just face consequences if caught.
 
Originally posted by: AMCRambler
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Who will go to Best Buy or Circuit City to buy a movie when they can purchase it online for cheaper and have it downloaded in 15 minutes?
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I don't like watching movies on my computer. Of course, I don't buy DVDs anyway. I'm content to rent almost everything.
 
Originally posted by: Lonyo
Way to not read the article at all.

A Spanish intellectual property law has finally banned unauthorized peer-to-peer file-sharing in Spain, making it a civil offense even to download content for personal use.
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I think a legitimate service would thus be allowed to exist and be used....
I think it's been banned in much the same way that most P2P things are illegal (downloading pirated material) - it's not legal, but it's still doable, you just face consequences if caught.
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:thumbsup:
 
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