1 edit | What? I thought maybe... just maybe... the PB owners might get what they were paid for... but I guess not.
I thought that they would keep the whole BitTorrent / Free Content type of site going and add in and push for legit content. No, first off they want to make it a content publishing network where users who can pay for and have access to large swaths of drive space and bandwidth can use the network free provided the network can upload anything it wanted onto you harddrive and use it for others to download from. I was really confused by this because:
A. Needs completely new software (even if it's based off the current torrent-tracker setup). I highly doubt open-sources would even touch this idea.
B. How does a site which was supposed to stay relatively the same turn into what ammounts to a CDN???
Then this juicy bit comes out late:
Rosso hopes to capitalize on the site's large fan base, telling CNET he wants to "harness all that computing power and sell it, becoming a competitor of Akamai." That suddenly explained their plans: They want to compete with the largest content deliver networks in the world... but they don't actually want to build a content delivery network (eg. using their own equipment).
This whole idea will surely fail as a tracker solution. This whole idea will surely fail as an ad-hoc "for-pay" CDN. This whole idea will fail. Period.
Gotta hand it to them, this will be one of the dumbest wastes of money I have ever heard of and they won't even be spending near as much as actual CDNs have.
I gotta say it: Your FAIL boat has arrived. Actually, it sunk before it even got to port.
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- "Techie" Jim |
