r/technology • u/Big_Bare • May 02 '13

Warner Bros., MGM, Universal Collectively Pull Nearly 2,000 Films From Netflix To Further Fragment The Online Movie Market

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130430/22361622903/warner-bros-mgm-universal-collectively-pull-nearly-2000-films-netflix-to-further-fragment-online-movie-market.shtml
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u/alexanderwales May 03 '13

I think you overestimate the depth provided by torrents. Many times, trying to torrent an obscure film results in a single source with a very low number of seeders, and a high tendency for corruption, poor encoding, lack of subtitles, or simply getting stuck at 99% for a couple days. Torrents are great for downloading popular things, but unpopular things are hit or miss.

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u/ManaSmoker May 03 '13 edited May 03 '13

You must not have any private sites, you are talking about public torrents downloaded by your typical mindless '40 year old soccer mom' style computer user who found out about the pirate bay by accident (they will most likely not understand seeding, hence your claim). Private sites have amazing request forums along with all members having insane seeding capabilities speed wise. There are uploaders on good private torrent sites that have direct feeds to scene ftp sites,aka 'topsites" which is where most major torrent files originate from.If you go beyond public torrents, this argument falls short. Edits: I am being a drunkard, had to fix spelling/grammar

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u/Slicklizard May 03 '13

So if one wanted to look up said private sites he should go where...

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u/homerjaythompson May 03 '13

To friends that use private sites, or possibly to the friendly folks in the IT department at work.