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Foxtel's (Australian Pay TV) online streaming services have crashed on the same day the seventh season of Game of Thrones was released on the platform. Foxtel confirmed its services — including Foxtel Now, Play and the Foxtel App — were down.
Some users said they were frustrated they had "tried to do the right thing" by paying for the streaming service, rather than downloading pirated versions. "At this point it's just easier to torrent Game of Thrones than do the right thing and get Foxtel to work ... just a joke," Luke Johnson posted on Twitter.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @01:56AM (2 children)
Fuck your noise! I stream what I want.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:00AM (1 child)
Your ugly and drunk and your mother smells of elderberries
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:36AM
My mom is too tired to shower after she fucked your dad.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @02:58AM
A red feast would make sense, can we have arya poison turnbull the bull fucker?
It's a long walk to the gallows and a dream of liberty... then they'll tell you don't try this at home..
Thanks bbc
(Score: 1) by darkpixel on Tuesday July 18 2017, @02:59AM (9 children)
Could a streaming media service adopt distributing their show via BitTorrent (say...Netflix) while still being able to maintain control over the video to prevent unauthorized users from accessing it? BitTorrent seems like the perfect distribution mechanism, but no distribution service would use it if it couldn't be 'secured'.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:06AM (1 child)
What do you think uPnP [dlna.org] is for?
It allows DRM'ed services to leach off of your Internet connection without your consent.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:18AM
uPNP is a service to open and forward ports from a router to the internal network irrelevant of your decision to run DRM'd services or not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:08AM (3 children)
No, because media companies have spent a long time making sure that torrent is pretty much synonymous with piracy. Adopting torrents for distribution would mean admitting that they have legal uses, which conflicts with "OMFG piraty torrentz are killing our profits" rhetoric. They could also no longer pressure ISPs to block all torrent traffic to "stop pirates".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:30AM (2 children)
Those were quick search result for Peer to Peer downloading.
Not making the list was Star Wars: the old republic [swtor.com]. They have a peer to peer downloader that does not actually work. After letting my sister borrow out 60Mbps down, 6Mbps up connection for a day: I disabled peer-to-peer patching (requires re-downloading everything). She now mysteriously patches faster on a laptop behind a 6Mbps connection: than my brother with his desktop.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @06:33AM
Blizzard uses torrent:
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/about/legal-faq.html [blizzard.com]
https://torrentfreak.com/starcraft-2-and-blizzards-bittorrent-paradox-100809/ [torrentfreak.com]
Of course there are clueless ISPs:
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/9661806427 [battle.net]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @01:59PM
Media (as in, movie/music) companies are not software companies. Legacy media companies have been pushing for internet filtering and torrent blocking since they first heard of them.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:31AM
Many hundreds of thousands of people have adopted BitTorrent to distribute Game of Thrones. Lol.
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(Score: 2) by chromas on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:41AM
A few years ago, I ran into a bittorrent-like media streaming service but it was for sports, and being pushed by some big companies. Can't remember the name of it though, and I haven't heard anything about it since that one time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @04:56AM
I don't remember what it was called. Radio paradise used it, but then bandwidth got cheaper
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:07AM (2 children)
things that they claim to be AI* will communicate with yo7ur toster and tell them thing mme to me to me to me to me to meto totttoo
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:10AM (1 child)
How do you feel about communicate with yo7ur toster do youyou do you do you do you do you do you do? do you feel?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:12AM
18* me me me to me mmeto mmmmeeeee
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:14AM (1 child)
FoxNews, Foxtel, same shit all over: pretend to give them what they pay the most... but don't try too hard, we own them anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:20AM
Thanks Mr slippery Dick Cheney
(Score: 3, Informative) by hemocyanin on Tuesday July 18 2017, @04:58AM (1 child)
I became progressively more dissatisfied with GOT. It had an great start but by book 5, what a total slog. I'll wait until the whole thing is finished and read the wikipedia summary, or laugh like at all the suckers when Martin kicks the bucket without finishing the book but after introducing additional pointless story lines designed to sell future volumes that won't ever be completed, because his heart got sick of pumping blood through all that lard. Talk about milking something for all it's worth and ruining what could have been a good tale -- Martin is a real mother fucker. And if I ever watch it, ethically I could only do it via piracy (something I've not done since the very early 2000s).
(Score: 4, Informative) by Webweasel on Tuesday July 18 2017, @08:56AM
I gave up half way through the 5th book too. Martin seems to get bored with his characters, so either kills them off or forgets about them. You get little interesting bits (Like the Stark mum coming back to life) that are never followed up on, just a few pages then forgotten. In the 5th book he really got bored of all the characters, jumped to another Kingdom and I was several chapters in wondering who these people were, as I had no investment in the characters and the characters I wanted to know about he had just stopped writing about.
However the TV show is different. Season 3 seems to be a mix of the books from 3-5 all jumped around a bit and from then on the TV show is no longer following the books, so give it a watch. I guess the producers got tired of his shit too, so they start making their own story and ignore most of the later books. AFAICT anyway.
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