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LimeWire media deal: It’s no joke

Started by mathewi · 8 months ago

According to a report in Fortune, the file-sharing network LimeWire has signed a deal with Comedy Central that will make it easy for users of the peer-to-peer application to find and buy legal versions of comedy videos from Lewis Black, Mitch Hedberg (who appears in the video embedded here, ... Continue reading »

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  • Eric Berlin

    8 months ago

    I don't know anyone who still uses LimeWire. Maybe they went underground, and certainly people are hitting up the torrent sites, but my sense is that many are kind of "done" with illegal downloads and P2P in general. Totally anecdotal evidence to be sure, and perhaps the wacky in the US could have effect on buying versus taking the additional effort to get free stuff via other means.
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  • mathewi

    8 months ago

    I know what you mean, Eric -- that certainly goes for me and many of my friends. At the same time, however, my teenaged daughters still use LimeWire a lot.
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  • jonyymathew

    8 months ago

    The major labels are constantly trying to increase the price paid for each song download and if we take a look at the data mentioned above, this is not a good idea. Also, another report pointed out the fact that Bit Torrent is the leading P2P protocol when talking about nighttime P2P traffic. This can either mean that this client is more popular or that it is used to download more and/or larger sized files. The truth of the mater is that media price is still too high for the regular user and the capacity of storage we see in media players is continuously rising.
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