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personally, the use for bittorrent is long tail, niche software that has become obsolete and is no longer viable commercially and therefore not available. the
by throwawayaway 12y ago
personally, the use for bittorrent is long tail, niche software that has become obsolete and is no longer viable commercially and therefore not available.
the idea of the few people that have it being able to share it with the many that may eventually need or want it, is something that the centralised "cloud" based services cannot compete with.
so you may think there's no virtue, but there is in spades. you are blinded by your own piracy.
- tormeh 12y agoThat's the theory. Turns out, though, that anything that's not really popular is hard to get hold of on TPB. It's usually easier to get hold of obscure content commercially.
- throwawayaway 12y agoit's a fact not a theory in my experience. your experience differs. big deal, fact is - it works for me - it has virtue, the fact that it didn't work for you does nothing to change that. also i infer from the immediacy with which you changed from niche obsolete software, to "obscure content" leads me to conclude you are talking about ripping off producers of low volume content who are still in business - again - blinded by your own piracy.
- tormeh 12y agoYeah, that's fair. I guess it's different for software.
- maccard 12y ago> It's usually easier to get hold of obscure content commercially. Unfortunately, your definition of osbscure depends on where in the world you're located. iTunes don't provide the same catalogue in the US and the UK or Ireland, Netflix don't provide the same catalogue. BBC documentaries are freely available in the UK online, but extremely difficult to get in Ireland without buying a physical copy, and up until last year, I didn't have a DVD or Blu ray player in my apartment