3 ms·

I just bought both. You'll get 4 downloads for each show and can download MP3 and/or FLAC. Quality seems pretty good to me, but I'm not an audiophile.

by middus 14y ago

fromhet 14y ago
"You get 4 downloads" Why limit it? It seems totally against the point. Why not even let people download a torrent and they can get the video on as many devices as they please and it wont even stress his servers.
- Pkeod 14y ago
  Distributing by torrent is different from providing a quality download service with purchase. If someone really wants to download by torrent and wait then what's stopping them from paying and then doing that. Limiting number of downloads protects their bandwidth from would be jerks. Protecting their service is important for their customers to have a quality experience. It's fair, and most people will only ever download once. If they for some reason use up all 4 downloads and want more they should e-mail them. Why wouldn't give more if some had a genuinely good reason for using up their downloads?
  - Anirak 14y ago
    I could see myself using that up legitimately over the course of my life. Now, of course, you could argue that the servers aren't expected to be up that long, but even over the next 5 years I could see myself doing that: I have a work computer and a home computer. I download them on both. My home computer fucks up and I have to reformat, so I re-download it (I forgot to back up this particular performance). I'm at a friend's house and I want to play a sample for him (which he later buys). Now I'm up to my four, and they were all legitimate uses. They should pad it enough that someone who paid for it could download it liberally (~20) but mass distribution of the link (100+) would fail quickly. And hell, he could even send an email to the owner if the link started receiving a ton of traffic.
  - theon144 14y ago
    Torrent != copyright infringing downloading. What the commenter you're replying to meant was something like what Humble Indie Bundle did - after you buy the bundle, you can also officially and legally download it using bittorrent (as opposed to HTTP), not hitting their servers but rather volunteers.

I just bought both. You'll get 4 downloads for each show and can download MP3 and/or FLAC. Quality seems pretty good to me, but I'm not an audiophile.

by middus 14y ago

I just bought both. You'll get 4 downloads for each show and can download MP3 and/or FLAC. Quality seems pretty good to me, but I'm not an audiophile.

fromhet 14y ago

"You get 4 downloads" Why limit it? It seems totally against the point. Why not even let people download a torrent and they can get the video on as many devices as they please and it wont even stress his servers.

Pkeod 14y ago
Distributing by torrent is different from providing a quality download service with purchase. If someone really wants to download by torrent and wait then what's stopping them from paying and then doing that. Limiting number of downloads protects their bandwidth from would be jerks. Protecting their service is important for their customers to have a quality experience. It's fair, and most people will only ever download once. If they for some reason use up all 4 downloads and want more they should e-mail them. Why wouldn't give more if some had a genuinely good reason for using up their downloads?
- Anirak 14y ago
  I could see myself using that up legitimately over the course of my life. Now, of course, you could argue that the servers aren't expected to be up that long, but even over the next 5 years I could see myself doing that: I have a work computer and a home computer. I download them on both. My home computer fucks up and I have to reformat, so I re-download it (I forgot to back up this particular performance). I'm at a friend's house and I want to play a sample for him (which he later buys). Now I'm up to my four, and they were all legitimate uses. They should pad it enough that someone who paid for it could download it liberally (~20) but mass distribution of the link (100+) would fail quickly. And hell, he could even send an email to the owner if the link started receiving a ton of traffic.
- theon144 14y ago
  Torrent != copyright infringing downloading. What the commenter you're replying to meant was something like what Humble Indie Bundle did - after you buy the bundle, you can also officially and legally download it using bittorrent (as opposed to HTTP), not hitting their servers but rather volunteers.