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I wonder how people would react if one of the big boys would just put up a torrent tracker with TV shows, with commercials. On one hand, commercials would be s
by radu_floricica 18y ago
I wonder how people would react if one of the big boys would just put up a torrent tracker with TV shows, with commercials.
On one hand, commercials would be skippable. But then, increasingly, so are on TV. Would commercial-free torrents appear on pirate bay? I doubt it, no real incentive. Would people really skip them consistently? Some yes, some wouldn't. If the commercial is short and reasonably interesting, why bother to fast forward every time?
- trezor 18y agoHere's my guess: Just like people make custom, amateur soft-subs these days for both pirate and legit DVDs, a file-format for reprogrammable program time-lines would be invented pretty quickly basically editing out the ads runtime. I'm not going to say I could make it in five minutes, but it should be pretty trivial to implement a plugin for this kind of thing. Heck, base it on Avisynth and on the Win32-platform you already have 99% of the groundwork done for you. These custom time-lines would probably be indexed, by show, season and episode, with direct links to the legal torrent all at one place. And I doubt anyone would be able to argue that files denoting time-lines could in any way be illegal.
- samlittlewood 18y agoeg: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html