nsane.forums Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 The uTorrent company is experimenting new ways to monetize its P2P clients and the free availability of digital contents on the BitTorrent network. The first of these experiments pushes RealPlayer. BitTorrent Inc., the USA company founded by the original creators of the BitTorrent protocol, is testing new ways to monetize on the content freely available on the file sharing network. The company wants to “rewrite the Future of the Entertainment Industry”, a feat that begins with the bundling of a well-known relic of the multimedia technology past. BitTorrent’s official blog explains that the company has already had “a lot of success in the last few years putting great content in front of our audiences”, promoting “featured” contents to download on the BitTorrent network and generating real revenues for artists by spurring “record deals, sold-out movie theaters, world tours and all kinds of ancillary revenue”. But that’s not enough anymore, BitTorrent says, because the company wants to “make digital distribution even more viable for creators and fans” by experimenting with new ways to “drive profitability for creators and publishers”. Corporate words aside, BT Inc. wants to maximize monetization of both the spreading of its BitTorrent clients and the sharing of contents on the network. The beginning of this new monetization effort starts with a download featuring the work of “hip-hop legend” DJ Shadow, a bundle including audio tracks, archival footage, artist-curated photos and the “free, optional” RealPlayer multimedia software for PC. Every time a users chooses to download the bundle without opting-out – an option buried under a big orange “support” button as a grayed link (“Nope, just gimme the files”) – RealPlayer pays BitTorrent Inc. for the new customer and BitTorrent shares the sum with the featured artist. So the testament of BitTorrent Inc. to the “Future of Entertainment”, the simple idea that should have “huge” ramifications for consumers and creators starts with the bundling of a well-known piece of badware, an ancient multimedia software that lost most of its users to competing media suites (Windows Media Player, iTunes etc.) and when the “RealMedia” files (“.ra”, “.rm”, “.ram”) were ousted by Adobe Flash in on-line content streaming. “New business models built on top of the BitTorrent ecosystem are the future of content”, BitTorrent Inc. says, because “this is where fans are”. Even if the “new business models” comes bundled with a piece of software Internet users (and music fans) thought to be gone for good. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted July 25, 2012 Administrator Share Posted July 25, 2012 RealPlayer? Seriously?*Stays away from updating or using uTorrent* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtmulc Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 In other news, (a) Realplayer is still around and (B) somehow has more than $5.82 in the couch cushions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 realplayer was the german company that the EU under germany control was punishing microsoft for the free bundle wmp and web browser. it goes back to the idead that they thought rwmc and rp where going to be the webtv sites for content. then cam along netflexs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweety.Abd Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 uTorrent has gone mad ever since its take over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voodoohippie Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 I'll use FrostWire for my torrenting now. At least it has a nice search option and you don't have to Download the entire torrent. It also works well with BTGuard. I have a funny feeling that uTorrent is gonna somehow figure a way to spring a leak in the VPN's allowing the RIAA to find you.No thanks I'll stick to Froaswire or another client. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Real Player *Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majithia23 Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 it happens sometimes during the day , when you read something all by yourself and cant help but Laugh OUT Loud ! WTF ... i mean .... they cant be seriously serious ! for all the time i remember my PC usage , Real Player was the first software i ditched and pledged to never allow it to even wander for miles around my PC ! " the future of entertainment is RealPlayer "--- :lmao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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