BitTorrent Director hates DRM, but creates legal service
One of the most popular peer-to-peer networks on the Internet is now on its way to its new legal status. Co-founder and director of the company (COO) Ashwin Navin (Ashwin Navin) leads this process with his partner Bram Cohen, about which we have already spoken . Their task is non-trivial.
In an interview with the publication PaidContent, Ashwin Naveen talks about the audience of services built on the BitTorrent protocol. As you know, this protocol was created by partner Nawin, programming genius Bram Cohen.
An audience study showed that every third BitTorrent user is willing to pay for access to legal content. Ashwin Naveen says that even if their number were less than 10%, this would not be an obstacle to the transformation of the network into a legal service. The remaining 67% do not wish to pay. They would rather see ads, but keep the content in BitTorrent free.
Guide BitTorrent is currently consulting with major film studios and media corporations to resolve legal issues. Given this, the position of Naveen, who openly expresses his dislike for DRM, seems very unusual. He says that this digital content protection technology is “bad for performers and bad for users.” It is good only for large companies like Apple or Microsoft, who want to lock users in their own platform.
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BitTorrent has already signed an agreement to distribute legal content with Warner Brothers studio for $ 9 million. At the same time, negotiations are underway with other large corporations.
Launch of legal service in the United States will be held at the end of this year. Next year, the new BitTorrent will start work in the UK, China and Japan.
Currently, about 90% of the content on the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network is pirated, so it will be interesting to see how pirated content will coexist in parallel with the legal paid service. Generally, it is very surprising how BitTorrent managers managed to avoid prosecution by MPAA and RIAA, while continuing to distribute pirated content, and even receive funding in the amount of $ 9 million. This is probably due to the uniqueness of the BitTorrent protocol and completely decentralized services based on it. In fact, they can not be controlled, and certainly the company of the same name is not capable of doing so.
What would be a legal service? It will probably be just a special version of the client software. The number of pirated movies and music on the Internet is unlikely to decrease.
In an interview with the publication PaidContent, Ashwin Naveen talks about the audience of services built on the BitTorrent protocol. As you know, this protocol was created by partner Nawin, programming genius Bram Cohen.
An audience study showed that every third BitTorrent user is willing to pay for access to legal content. Ashwin Naveen says that even if their number were less than 10%, this would not be an obstacle to the transformation of the network into a legal service. The remaining 67% do not wish to pay. They would rather see ads, but keep the content in BitTorrent free.
Guide BitTorrent is currently consulting with major film studios and media corporations to resolve legal issues. Given this, the position of Naveen, who openly expresses his dislike for DRM, seems very unusual. He says that this digital content protection technology is “bad for performers and bad for users.” It is good only for large companies like Apple or Microsoft, who want to lock users in their own platform.
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BitTorrent has already signed an agreement to distribute legal content with Warner Brothers studio for $ 9 million. At the same time, negotiations are underway with other large corporations.
Launch of legal service in the United States will be held at the end of this year. Next year, the new BitTorrent will start work in the UK, China and Japan.
Currently, about 90% of the content on the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network is pirated, so it will be interesting to see how pirated content will coexist in parallel with the legal paid service. Generally, it is very surprising how BitTorrent managers managed to avoid prosecution by MPAA and RIAA, while continuing to distribute pirated content, and even receive funding in the amount of $ 9 million. This is probably due to the uniqueness of the BitTorrent protocol and completely decentralized services based on it. In fact, they can not be controlled, and certainly the company of the same name is not capable of doing so.
What would be a legal service? It will probably be just a special version of the client software. The number of pirated movies and music on the Internet is unlikely to decrease.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4523/
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