Note: I would have posted his over at the NV board, but they seem like "ban happy despots" at the moment.
I was reading through the messages boards over at the New Voyages site, looking for further reactions from people who had managed to see World Enough and Time. I happened upon a locked and pinned thread titled "Bit Torrents and Shares for WEat" by one of the board moderators, GE1947. I don't know what the etiquette is for copying and posting a post from a different board, but suffice to say the NV folks are very displeased that viewers resorted to copying files off of the viewing site and posed them as torrents. So displeased that they are releasing "crawl bots" to look for unauthorized servers and will ban any members that "stole" the episode.
I'm a bit stunned by this position. Do these people not realize how the internet works? They admit that the site they used had insufficient security, so they yell at purported burglars instead of the folks who couldn't accomplish their job? And, in all honesty, what theft occured? They put their product on a website for all to see. Of course people are going to copy it to their personal computer, that's net culture.
For them to attack their own audience like this is troublesome. It screams of extreme hubris, for one thing. Basically, the NV team failed to accomplish their goal. How is that the fault of the audience? If obtaining an accurate count of downloads was this important, they should have contacted someone like Apple and offered it through itunes as a free download.
It just sucks to see this reaction after having really enjoyed viewing the episode. And yes, I had to resort to a torrent to see it a second time because the primary streaming site kept crashing. I've since seen the official torrent site for NV list WEAT. I downloaded it again so NV would get to count me as an audience member.
I was reading through the messages boards over at the New Voyages site, looking for further reactions from people who had managed to see World Enough and Time. I happened upon a locked and pinned thread titled "Bit Torrents and Shares for WEat" by one of the board moderators, GE1947. I don't know what the etiquette is for copying and posting a post from a different board, but suffice to say the NV folks are very displeased that viewers resorted to copying files off of the viewing site and posed them as torrents. So displeased that they are releasing "crawl bots" to look for unauthorized servers and will ban any members that "stole" the episode.
I'm a bit stunned by this position. Do these people not realize how the internet works? They admit that the site they used had insufficient security, so they yell at purported burglars instead of the folks who couldn't accomplish their job? And, in all honesty, what theft occured? They put their product on a website for all to see. Of course people are going to copy it to their personal computer, that's net culture.
For them to attack their own audience like this is troublesome. It screams of extreme hubris, for one thing. Basically, the NV team failed to accomplish their goal. How is that the fault of the audience? If obtaining an accurate count of downloads was this important, they should have contacted someone like Apple and offered it through itunes as a free download.
It just sucks to see this reaction after having really enjoyed viewing the episode. And yes, I had to resort to a torrent to see it a second time because the primary streaming site kept crashing. I've since seen the official torrent site for NV list WEAT. I downloaded it again so NV would get to count me as an audience member.
by providing accurate numbers on the download counts but the combination of the site going down and torrents going up may have screwed things up for them.
