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Piracy. The killer app for high-speed internet is torrenting and piracy. Ok, and Steam. Maybe really long movies on youtube, though I wouldn't watch an actual m
by anon4 12y ago
Piracy. The killer app for high-speed internet is torrenting and piracy. Ok, and Steam. Maybe really long movies on youtube, though I wouldn't watch an actual movie on youtube - they don't pay as much attention to good compression as movie pirates.
The only thing I've downloaded legit over bittorrent is linux distros.
Yes, you could stream from your home, or host 32-person fps servers, or whatever. But in the end it comes down to being able to grab a 30G encode of a movie from a blu-ray source in a few minutes.
And if hollywood ever offered it, I'd pay them for it.
- sosuke 12y agoI don't have a full gigabit connection yet, 700 megabits down and up right now, but piracy was easy on a normal broadband connection. The killer app I want from my connection is no buffering on YouTube, Netflix, and other streaming services. There is no excuse why my connection isn't good enough for these services, yet I still get and hear complaints in my household about the internet being slow or unresponsive. I do a speedtest from said device at that time, a mobile phone, 150 up and down. So is isn't me anymore, it is them.
- sounds 12y agoBluntly: hollywood saw piracy only as something to be killed. Now, too late, they're trying to emulate what has been in the works for 15 years. Right now, Comcast sees Netflix as something to be killed. It may be true now; it will certainly be in the future that Comcast will try to kill competing fiber build-outs. It'll be a close race, but I'm not betting on Comcast or Hollywood.