p2pnet - rss feed: Warner Bros p2p ‘file sharing’
p2p news / p2pnet: Warner Bros is expected to announce today that it’ll try to sell movies and TV shows online in Germany using “peer-to-peer technology,” says the Wall Street Journal.
Working with Bertelsmann AG, the BMG half of DRM firm Sony BMG, and its subsidiary Arvato, Warner Bros will be pushing In2Movies, slated for March.
Arvato dreamed up GNAB, a pp2p (pseudo p2p) application which comes complete with DRM (digital restrictions management).
To, “share in the power and convenience of GNAB’s P2P network, one has to become an authorized part of that network through registration,” it says
“Unfortunately, this centralized registration that enables DRM requires a big sacrifice. One must give up what is perhaps P2P’s most popular feature - file sharing.”
The new Warner ’service’ will feature movies dubbed into German, “for a fee that Warner says will be similar to the cost of a DVD,” says the WSJ. “It will also offer television shows like ‘The O.C.’ and locally made programs and movies.
“Users, who will have to register for the service, will be able to keep the movie indefinitely. But instead of getting a movie from a central server, pieces of it could come from other people on the network who also bought that movie.”
BitTorrent, anyone?
Meanwhile, MSN Groups is touting In2Entertainment which, it says, includes In2TV and In2Movies.
“Click Here to enter In2Movies,” it says and when you do, “Hmmm, We Can’t Find that Page…”
Also See:
Wall Street Journal - Warner Bros. to Try File Sharing, January 30, 2006
pseudo p2p - New (and phony) BMG p2p app, June 2, 2005
January 30th, 2006 at 4:59 pm
What the hell is pseudo p2p?
January 30th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
It’s digital rights management, by the way.
I wonder how long this will last.
January 30th, 2006 at 6:41 pm
You share your $$$ with them and they share the movie???
Is this a good deal? I mean you can sell your old DVDs…some are even collectibles. Where is the $avings?
January 30th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
— It’s digital rights management, by the way —
To you, maybe : ) To me, it’s digital restrictions management.
Cheers!
January 30th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
The savings are in the fact that they don’t actually give you anything, so they make more money, and they can keep you from reselling (more sales for them in their imaginary world), and they can turn off your ability to watch the movie at anytime, then you’d have to buy a new copy…… oh, did you mean to the customer (opps, I mean consumer).
January 30th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
“To me, it’s digital restrictions management.”
Same here, and to a lot of other folks I would imagine. It’s certainly the better and more apt of the two possible acronyms. Want to use that video/audio file you downloaded on your home theater, take it with you to a friends/families house to watch together, put on a portible device, stream, etc, etc, etc. Sorry, you can’t, depsite having paid for it legally. That is not to say I would not pay for such files, as long as the quality was far above what you can download illegally for free, and for a reasonable price. Otherwise I’m not going to waste a single penny of my money on these kinds of services.
January 31st, 2006 at 11:53 am
So they want you to pay for the priviledge of providing your bandwidth at your own expense to everyone else on the network. Who wants to bet there won’t be any way for the “subscribers” (i’d call em victims) to limit how much of their total upload speed gets “borrowed” by this service? And i’m sure any attempt to throttle it’s speed using 3rd party apps would be a violation of the terms and conditions of the service and get your collection wiped.
The really sad part about this is that ppl will fall for it. Then spend days wondering why their browsing the net is so slow.
January 31st, 2006 at 4:01 pm
wonder if you need to leave it on all the time; to ensure they have the proper amount of people sharing the music…..
wonder how much spying it will do on the consumers and how many new restrictions it’ll impose on your computer….all legal because the consumer clicked on the I agree button