Tag: bittorrent

Mad Men Crashes To Low TV Figures – Does It Matter With Bittorrent Out There?

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Mad Men has returned to UK screens, with a heavily trailed start to Season Two on BBC4. And the results were 240,000 (ish) viewers. That holds up pretty well to the Season One premiere that caught 270,000, A drop of 9% year on year is pretty respectable. Whether the number of viewers is worth what the BBC paid for, I don’t know. But what I would love to know is how many people in the UK have caught Mad Men via ‘the dark corners of the internet.’ That’s a hard number to calculate (if only the TV industry had a

Battlestar Galactica, Internet Fans, and why Video Piracy is Naturally Rife

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(This is a spoiler free post) Yesterday was a big day for fans of Battlestar Galactica, as the last batch of ten episodes started to air. That meant that today was a big day for “the dark corners of the internet” to make sure that people would be able to catch the episode as soon as possible after airing in the USA. This was thought to be more vital than normal, as an important plot point would be revealed (which it was) and it was likely to be discussed over the internet at length (which appears to be happening). So

Choosing The Right Tools For The Job

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It should be a sensible decision, choosing the right tool for the job. But sometimes choosing that right tool is something that breaks an unwritten rule or a promise a person has made to themselves or a company has in their corporate handbook. So let’s look first of all at the big corporate snafu over the last few days. Microsoft releasing a public beta of Windows 7. That’s actually a good thing, but how they did it was a mistake. A big massive file, that everyone wanted? It’s a perfect use case of BitTorrent. Except, for reasons to be discussed,