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I still think traditional TV is capitalizing on the lack of good (or overabudance of bad) recommendation engines online. Social recommendations are blurry, pop

I still think traditional TV is capitalizing on the lack of good (or overabudance of bad) recommendation engines online. Social recommendations are blurry, popularity is, well, a popularity contest and movie reviews are so subjective. Even with well-intented efforts like boxee you have (a) an anavoidable pile of juvenile nonsense and (b) too many options (and that's a problem). TV offers a simple, dumb stream of mediocre-but-curated programming. Maybe we should have that for online video too. (btw that illegal torrent u suggest is still going to take hours to download)

w1ntermute 15y ago
> (btw that illegal torrent u suggest is still going to take hours to download) I think you need to double-check your math. I just found a Bluray rip of the Hurt Locker on a torrent site that is 3.78 GB. Using my 24 Mbps fiber connection ($55/month, in America), it would take: 3.78 GB * (1024 MB/GB) * (8 MB/Mb) * (1 s/24 Mb) * (1 min/60 s) = 21.5 mins Hardly the "hours" that you suggested. And considering that the ads for a typical movie will run for much longer than 21.5 mins, I'd say it's not that long at all.
- zerostar07 15y ago
  out of curiosity are you getting the full 24Mbps when downloading torrents? Also, what about the illegal factor?
  - seanp2k2 15y ago
    Torrents are typically the fastest things on the web because you're pulling from so many sources; in effect, a peer to peer CDN cluster :) Also, there are plenty of fly-by-night sites that have full episodes of most shows that people care about. I won't link to any here, but just Google "watch full episode" and you'll see what I mean. >"Also, what about the illegal factor?" As long as gullible sheep continue to finance shows by paying to watch ads on cable, I'll continue to not waste my life watching ads or waiting for them to play what I want to watch. To hell with imaginary property.
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    - zerostar07 15y ago
      To hell with imaginary property. Then i suppose you also give your work away and your house doesnt have windows or doors, and your life is not really yours alone (all property is imaginary, it's just a convention).
      - evincarofautumn 15y ago
        What else would ownership be but a convention? We’re just monkeys in shoes. Our arbitrary territorial and food rituals are certainly complex, but that makes them no less arbitrary. And a lock, as they say, only stops an honest man—one who plays by convention.
  - w1ntermute 15y ago
    > out of curiosity are you getting the full 24Mbps when downloading torrents? Yes, I use a private torrent site that I've been a member of for more than 5 years. Speed is never an issue. > Also, what about the illegal factor? As I said, I use a private torrent site. The risk is minimal when most anti-piracy organizations will be focusing on low-hanging fruit like public torrents and file hosting services (such as Rapidshare and the now-defunct Megaupload).

w1ntermute 15y ago

> (btw that illegal torrent u suggest is still going to take hours to download) I think you need to double-check your math. I just found a Bluray rip of the Hurt Locker on a torrent site that is 3.78 GB. Using my 24 Mbps fiber connection ($55/month, in America), it would take: 3.78 GB * (1024 MB/GB) * (8 MB/Mb) * (1 s/24 Mb) * (1 min/60 s) = 21.5 mins Hardly the "hours" that you suggested. And considering that the ads for a typical movie will run for much longer than 21.5 mins, I'd say it's not that long at all.

zerostar07 15y ago
out of curiosity are you getting the full 24Mbps when downloading torrents? Also, what about the illegal factor?
- seanp2k2 15y ago
  Torrents are typically the fastest things on the web because you're pulling from so many sources; in effect, a peer to peer CDN cluster :) Also, there are plenty of fly-by-night sites that have full episodes of most shows that people care about. I won't link to any here, but just Google "watch full episode" and you'll see what I mean. >"Also, what about the illegal factor?" As long as gullible sheep continue to finance shows by paying to watch ads on cable, I'll continue to not waste my life watching ads or waiting for them to play what I want to watch. To hell with imaginary property.
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  - zerostar07 15y ago
    To hell with imaginary property. Then i suppose you also give your work away and your house doesnt have windows or doors, and your life is not really yours alone (all property is imaginary, it's just a convention).
    - evincarofautumn 15y ago
      What else would ownership be but a convention? We’re just monkeys in shoes. Our arbitrary territorial and food rituals are certainly complex, but that makes them no less arbitrary. And a lock, as they say, only stops an honest man—one who plays by convention.
- w1ntermute 15y ago
  > out of curiosity are you getting the full 24Mbps when downloading torrents? Yes, I use a private torrent site that I've been a member of for more than 5 years. Speed is never an issue. > Also, what about the illegal factor? As I said, I use a private torrent site. The risk is minimal when most anti-piracy organizations will be focusing on low-hanging fruit like public torrents and file hosting services (such as Rapidshare and the now-defunct Megaupload).