I can't see this being successful...you will be able to get the same stuff faster than using BitTorrent probably, so i don't see why people would choose this over other services. Plus if they know how to use torrents then why would they be willing to pay for it all of a sudden when they could just as easily download it for free?

I believe that a lot of people WOULD be willing to pay a FAIR price for a product based upon the RESTRICTIONS placed upon their use of the product that they have paid for.

What is the fair price to place upon a digital COPY of a work with less resolution than the original, less functionability than the original, less freedom to use as the original, none of the packaging/artwork/even physical media of the original etc etc?

So far the media companies have felt that the price whould be about the same as the DVD and CD. We all know a download of a complete CD of music costs $10. At $1.99 and episode a season of TV costs about the same as the season on DVD.

OBVIOSLY until a fair price IS reached there will people who either opt for illegal downloading or who stick with the traditional media that retains full functionality.

btw... a FAIR MARKET price could be deemed as the price at which MOST illegal downloads are converted to legal purchases. If we really worked under a free market society the prices of downloads would continue to drop so as to 'compete' with these downloads. I bet when you end up with a high quality, DRM free download of say (10 cents for a song like at AllofMP3.com) and maybe 99 cents for a high quality download of a movie that illegal downloading all but dries up!

i would stop downloading tv shows if they were offered for $1 an episode.

The companies must ask themselves...would they rather $1 or $0
The choice is theirs.

DRM kills sales. Remove it and they will make millions.

So long as the quality is good and the price fair and reasonable people will support this.

There'll always be (and always has been) some sort of 'pirating', get over it.

But most people when offered an excellent quality product at a fair and reasonable price will be happy with that.

I checked it out it isnt that bad really. I mean theres some stuff I personally would change, but this is a step in the right direction. And they offer some stuff for free, like I just got a iPod ready Night of the Living Dead by George (?) Romero for free in like 15 min. and I didn't have to bother searching all over the net. I'll be interested to see how the store turns out.

**UPDATE** I downloaded the torrent and started it in uTorrent, but it refused to let me download it. Whether this a restriction being used by the BitTorrent site or not is unknown to me, but its a bad sign.

Originally posted by PeaInAPod:

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I checked it out it isnt that bad really. I mean theres some stuff I personally would change, but this is a step in the right direction. And they offer some stuff for free, like I just got a iPod ready Night of the Living Dead by George (?) Romero for free in like 15 min. and I didn't have to bother searching all over the net. I'll be interested to see how the store turns out.

**UPDATE** I downloaded the torrent and started it in uTorrent, but it refused to let me download it. Whether this a restriction being used by the BitTorrent site or not is unknown to me, but its a bad sign.

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thier going to have some problems to hash out I guess,anyone know what kind of password setup they are using,because one could buy some torrents then release that info to the net.
even if its 2 or 3 people downloading it,this dose not make allot of sense to me...

are they going to call the Bittorrent Entertainment Network "BET" for short?

well good, if there are more "legitimate" uses for bittorrent, then isp's won't be able to claim that they are allowed to throttle speeds to users who are using bittorrent.