Everywhere I hear people complaining about piracy of this and copyright protection that. I am all for patents and copyrights, but if some 15yr old kid in his living room can figure out how to watch a movie for free instead of forking over $10 to see it theaters, all the power to him. For example, I freggin love the network. And because it is readily available to me and the kids that run it outsmarted everyone trying to stop them, I figure I should use their service. Well, all that I am really trying to say is that the big music / video / tv companies should stop bitching and figure out how to beat these 15yr old kids. Bittorent may have just stumbled upon the answer.

Bittorent will launch a ad-based tv download service. "Instead of paying for a download, BitTorrent’s customers now see ads before and after watching an episode." The reason most of us watch tv shows and movies of the network is the immediacy, I can watch it whenever I want without a tv. BitTorrent seems to be wising up this fact and simply putting ads on the downloaded shows. This is a great idea, yet very simple. Basically, just download the shows with commercials attached and disable the fastfoward feature of the player. I am sure someone could crack it, but those would only be the hardcore video watchers. Normal people, like myself, would simply just sit through the commercials like a normal tv show. Problem solved, huge ad revenue for the tv shows, improved immediacy for the viewers.

P.S. - I called myself normal :)

P.P.S. - "Happy April Fools everybody! Everything is back, I'm not getting sued, and I just ordered a new 500GB hard drive for more piracy to come." --gimli