Torrenting , it ’s the shaft of thieves and pirates , correct ? The evil protocol no honest somebody should ever dare tactile sensation ? Not quite , but it ’s got that reputation with some , and it ’s trying hard to shake it . According to BitTorrent ’s executive film director of marketing Matt Mason , they plan totake it all the way in the other direction and really get in abstruse with legal distribution next year .
Now before anyone gets upturned , it ’s deserving take down BitTorrent is already in the byplay of effectual depicted object distribution . It dabbled in operate a storefront back in 2008 and it ’s always been a large way to download huge pieces of clear source software . This programme proceed a bit far than that though . As Mason told the New York Times , “ We ’ve been attempt to dress the entertainment industry to think about BitTorrent as a partner . ”
And it makes sense , BitTorrent has a mammoth user - base , more than Hulu , Netflix , and Spotify combined , time two . And it ’s an efficient path to download magnanimous files , much better than pulling them from a unmarried source . But are all those users there because BitTorrent is great , or because detached ( pirated ) content abounds ? BitTorrent is betting on the former .
According to Mason , these plan do n’t involve setting up any kind of store or anything . Instead , BitTorrent simply want to reach out to rightsholders to offer itself up as a deliverance mechanism , whether that will intend Torrentable downloads of additional goodies that hail with a traditional leverage , or set top box that use the protocol to download and stream . BitTorrent ’s certainly take a bad rap considering its method acting is so efficient and its name is something of a dirty Bible . Whether this push can do anything to change that continue to be seen . Hopefully it can . [ The New York Times ]
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