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Why The BitTorrent Store Will Fail
Cohen and company still haven't addressed throttling...
As mentioned over the weekend, the official BitTorrent video store has launched, and Om Malik offers up the five main reasons it will likely fail. While things like ease of use are likely fixed by a nice GUI, the major problem continues to be ISP throttling of BitTorrent and p2p traffic. As we've frequently noted, Cohen has been making the rounds the last year or so trying to sell ISPs on the idea of caching content to help manage the bandwidth load, something we've not seen ISPs tripping over themselves to embrace. This Slyck interview with Cohen is also worth reading.

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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA

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dadkins

MVM

DRM & Limitations...

... will be the downfall of these types of services.

People will lay blame on piracy... but it will really be crap content that is grossly over priced that will kill these services off.

Who really wants DRM laden, poor quality video?
Time limited files that will die?
At prices that rival actual DVD purchases?

Not here pal!

$5.99 per DVD here! Will likely play for years to come - on any damn player or laptop I choose.