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...available through Morpheus 4.5, NEOnet—created by Gitika Srivastava ’01, Ben B. Wilken ’01 and Francis H.R. Crick ’03—speeds up download time by drastically cutting back the number of computers an individual must search across to locate a particular file...
...full-fledged Netflix-TiVo deal in the immediate future.) The delay in incorporating file sharing has a lot to do with the slow speed of most Americans' Internet access. Even with cable and DSL connections that average 2 megabits per second, it can take 16 hours to download a movie with just a third of the quality of a DVD. Not to mention that most of us prefer watching a movie on our TV to watching it on a computer screen. "This isn't going to be a tidal wave of change," says Hastings. "More like global warming...
...Download speed is just one reason file sharing may not be as immediate a threat to the movie business as it may seem. "There were very beautiful copies of Shrek 2 available on the Internet when it was released," says Ted Sarandos, chief content officer for Netflix. "That didn't seem to hurt [Shrek's] ticket sales any." When DVDs are packed with special features and available to rent for $2 or to buy for $15, who wants to waste a day downloading a movie? "I've frequently suggested they give up on all this copy protection because it doesn...
Millions of people have figured out how to download movies, using file-sharing services that traffic in other people's pirated copies. But acquiring movies this way is problematic, not to mention illegal: sometimes it works, sometimes you accidentally get porn. And sometimes the studios catch you. Here's how you can do it legally...
...SOFTWARE You'll need either RealPlayer or Windows Media Player installed on your machine. (They provide the viewing window as well as the pause and other controls.) When you click to subscribe for the first time, the service will prompt you to download the appropriate program (or to update your current version), which can take several minutes. Then you'll have to download another piece of software (needed to manage your access to the restricted files), which takes another minute or so. If you have a firewall in place, a message window will pop up, asking if you want...