Comments on: YouTorrent On The Market, Switches To Legal Torrents

By: YouTorrent, solo torrents legales… « Cultura Informàtica

YouTorrent, solo torrents legales… « Cultura Informàtica — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:18:52 +0000

[...] El motor de búsqueda YouTorrent ahora solo ofrece a los usuarios resultados de Torrents legales… según TorrentFreak, desde que este servicio fue lanzado en el mes de enero, ya cuenta con cerca de 10 millones de visitas únicas por mes, un paso que parece lógico para de esta manera no entrar en las webs ilegales, pero hay que pensar que este servicio parece que tiene ingresos de $0, ya que en su web por el momento no hay ningún anuncio… ¿acaso quieren vender su web?. [...]

By: YouTorrent, Now Legal And Looking For A Buyer

YouTorrent, Now Legal And Looking For A Buyer — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:53:43 +0000

[...] Sources: [1] TorrentFreak: YouTorrent Goes Legal, and Up For Sale by Ernesto [2] TechCrunch: YouTorrent On The Market, Switches To Legal Torrents by Duncan Riley SPHERE IT! [...]

By: Zach Weisman

Zach Weisman — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:00:39 +0000

Why not sell the company and SUGGEST to the new owners that they COULD switch to legal only.

By: Joel Strellner

Joel Strellner — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:56:25 +0000

@heddy I was purposely stating the obvious. Maybe you didn’t get that?

Oh, and heddy this question was rhetorical; you don’t need to reply.

By: Stephen Paul Weber

Stephen Paul Weber — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:10:04 +0000

This may well kill the site, but I am a fan of the move. There is definitely a need for some good sites indexing all the high-quality *legal* content out there. The fact that most indexers only pay attention to illegal content just gives the protocol a bad name, and I am not a fan of that.

By: kit

kit — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:25:28 +0000

scrapetorrent is full of pop up ads and extremely slow. Here are two best ones: nowtorrents.com, and pizzatorrent of course.

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:42:58 +0000

scrapetorrent.com!!!

By: heddy

heddy — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:20:59 +0000

April 13th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

Maybe they got a C&D letter and decided to switch to legal stuff and ditch it before they lost everything over something they are not getting any money for?

Well, duh….

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:09:03 +0000

I’ve never used the site (try btjunkie.org) but a truly successful torrent indexing site that was popular and only indexed legal content might be worth much more than yet another site for finding copyrighted content.

By: ANON

ANON — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:33:03 +0000

One hell of a stunt you tube pulled on us. There business model pertaining to their sites users, as described on torrentfreak, “find’em, fuck’em & forget’em.”

I, like so many others, have removed them from my bookmarks and will never ever go back to their site again. And I, like so many others, hope they lose every penny they have invested!

Wankers!

By: A

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:04:28 +0000

Sean:

I hope you’re not serious. The site has NEVER RUN ADS…just place ads on it, and you’ll make money.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:41:34 +0000

Why would anyone pay money for a web site that makes zero money? You’d have to be a complete tool.

By: Akma Tanago

Akma Tanago — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:34:25 +0000

Yes I agree, this youtorrent is very useful.
I think the “you” in it’s name was very helpful to promote the site to youtube users.

By: Charliwag

Charliwag — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:12:25 +0000

Cool i can still get my linux distros and creative commons movies, educational films made by high school students in the 70s and old cartoons yay!
Least demonoid is around.

By: Fabian

Fabian — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:44:04 +0000

Well demonoid.com is back so who cares about youtorrent.com?

By: Frank Church

Frank Church — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:33:15 +0000

@ steve, I see you “get it” but your first paragraph acts like policing the theft of autos is economically equivalent to policing the theft of digital goods. It is not. Don’t concentrate on “what should be”, but “what is”.

By: Me

Me — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:27:28 +0000

So you would care if somebody offered techcrunch content freely
That’s basically what it sums up too.
You endorse pirating somebody else’s content so technically not allowing people to copy techcrunch content would be hypocrisy

By: Will

Will — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:18:40 +0000

Yea, it’s funny that Duncan would practically admit what we already know–that he and (probably Michael as well) downloaded copyrighted materials.

By: TC Audience

TC Audience — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:04:51 +0000

I’m just gonna come out and say what everyone is thinking.

- Sounds like Duncan Riley supports illegal downloading based on the end of the post.
- Fix your grammar, you motherfucking first grader.
- Duncan Riley is a hack.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:51:53 +0000

Don’t worry. Whoever buys them can switch the site back to illegal torrents.

By: Duh

Duh — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:38:54 +0000

#6 file sharing equals progress! Because of it we now have Hulu and Joost and more sites that allow free music streaming!

Everyone does it too - well not me anymore dont need to with the legal alternatives!

By: fLUx

fLUx — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:22:28 +0000

Well, anyone who used it was a bit of an newbie idiot. It indexed public sites, which suck.

Doing this will only kill the site, just checked it out, rubbish now….

By: YouTorrent: Ahora Dedicado A Torrents Legales.: Tecnologias-Creativas

YouTorrent: Ahora Dedicado A Torrents Legales.: Tecnologias-Creativas — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:17:36 +0000

[...] buscadores y mas de p2p, es encontrar aquel software que te gustaría probar por mas de 30 días, TechCrunch comenta que la alternativa rápida es [...]

By: CARversation.com

CARversation.com — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:04:17 +0000

Those idiots, this is gonna hurt them.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:52:03 +0000

mike: foo: why do the car companies so enthusiastically prevent us from having the autos we want, when we want it, and how we want it, while charging us a fair price? If Aston Martins were available were half off I would buy one, but alas, thay are not. So I use the black market instead, which is just as fast, and has as much (or more) selection. It would be stupid to -not- endorse it as the best and easiest way for people to access the stuff they are actively being denied access to.

Yes, I totally get that the labels are stupid a*holes, I understand the difference between copyright infringement and actual crimes, … however, I can’t deny the right of big labels to charge what they want and distribute how they want no matter how disasterous it may be for them in the long run. And, yes, YTorrent is toast.