BitTorrent out of the underground

It is finished. The company, which has made a name for itself on the development of the largest network today, Peer-To-Peer, has finally achieved what, according to the assurances of its leadership, has been striving so much all this time.

BitTorrent has rapidly lost its reputation as a patron and breeding ground for piracy. Major investments and contracts with media giants have done their job. On Monday, a showcase of a legal store selling films, games, music, and recordings of popular TV shows appeared on the BitTorrent.com main page.

The advantages of the P2P principle are used in the new store to its fullest. Despite the fact that virtually every file sold is protected by Microsoft's DRM system, it can be downloaded just like any other torrent on the network: in parts from different computers. However, the acquired file will be able to listen / view only on two computers and two players.
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Pricing for content in general is the same as in other stores: a TV program will cost the buyer $ 1.99, and a concert or movie recording costs $ 3 or $ 4. This relatively low price is due to the fact that films are only rented for a day or a month, after which they will no longer be able to watch them. Games and audio recordings are usually free.

BitTorrent founding father Bram Cohen (Bram Cohen) in an interview with the New York Times complained that content publishers had driven them into a tough content protection framework, while the company itself would be happy to give up DRM altogether.

An important detail: the store accepts orders only from users from the USA. Residents of other countries can continue to use the BitTorrent protocol to download anything for free, pretending that nothing happened.