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'Firefly,' 'Buffy,' and More Now on Legal Bittorrent
- By Melissa Wilson
- Published 02/26/2007
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In a surpising move, FOX has partnered with Bittorrent to bring episodes of genre favorites such as 'Buffy: The Vampire Slayer,' and 'Firefly' to computer screens everywhere. On the official BitTorrent site, FOX TV Classics have become available for download at the same $1.99 per episode price as competitor Apple's iTunes Store. For sale are episodes of Buffy, Firefly, and
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BitTorrent is the hottest downloading program out there right now. Unlike older downloading mechanisms like Kazaa or Napster, BitTorrent enables the download of different parts of a file at a time by various users, who then download from each other at the same time. The technology has been used to facilitate illegal downloads of music, movies and television for a few years. With the official BT site partnering with giants like FOX and Warner Bros., the road that was paved with illegal files is now open for legal sharing of all types.
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Comment #1 (Posted by LMouse)
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Just some thoughts ...
I'm still waiting for someone to do advertising-supported downloads. While I'm not sure that they would earn $1.99 per episode with ad revenue, I suspect the net profit would be greater because of massively increased traffic. People would LOVE free eps, ads or not. (After all, we tolerate ads on TV, right?)
$1.99 doesn't seem like much until you factor in a typical 26 episode season costs $52 when downloaded versus around $20-30 from Amazon if you buy the DVDs. And the DVDs are a heck of a lot more versatile; I can play a DVD on my computer if I want, but it's a lot more awkward to play a downloaded episode on my TV ... can be done, but it's not convenient or easy.
Anyway ... :-)