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Filesharing: It Just Works. Someday, the content providers will understand this and focus on providing a better, cheaper service to their customers.
by michaelty 16y ago
Filesharing: It Just Works.
Someday, the content providers will understand this and focus on providing a better, cheaper service to their customers.
- lenley 16y agoHuh? I'm not sure how you can beat _free_ file sharing services.
- hasenj 16y agoYou can, if you make it easy and cheap. Most people don't know what bittorrent is, and even if they know, they wouldn't know how to use it. And even if they knew that, they couldn't tell legit content from viruses.
- steveklabnik 16y agoHere's the key: you stop selling content, and you start selling something else. It sounds very zen, but it's Steve Jobs' opinion: > "We're going to fight illegal downloading by competing with it," said Jobs. "We're not going to sue it. We're not going to ignore it. We're going to compete with it."
- chc 16y agoBut Apple does sell (and rent) content. I'm confused. Jobs' quote even seems to say that — they plan to sell content and sell it well.
- steveklabnik 16y agoNope, they sell convenience.
- IChrisI 16y agoI buy games on Steam because downloading and installing is a double-click. There are a lot of (admittedly easy) steps when you pirate things, like mounting the ISO and browsing to the crack folder, and re-mounting every time you want to play.
- antareus 16y agoWhat specifically can Hulu do better? The only thing I can think of is dropping ads for paid users.
- dagw 16y agoOne specific thing off the top of my head is I can't copy videos from Hulu to my mp3 player to watch offline at a later date.
- Incubus 16y agoBe available outside the US.
- dlsspy 16y agoIt could work with my boxee setup. It could work on my iPad while I'm on the way to, or in the mountains. It could work when my connectivity sucks / is saturated. It could have the things I want when I'm ready for them.