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.
(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.