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They'd never do that

Many problems:

1) Can't rotate commercials on the fly: Company pays for a 1-week ad: What happens after that? The distributed copies are still running the old ad. You said "Downloading Episode X of a show might have a comercials for on company and tomorow if someone downloaded it could be for another company" -- but that isn't how bittorrent works.

2) Can't do any network promos: "New Apprentice Tuesday at 8pm!" would seem silly if the episode containing it was downloaded months later

3) People would just skip 'em (duh). Unless they required a special player.

4) Bandwidth costs. Most BT trackers boot users with low ratios -- that would be too much overhead for a movie studio, so they'll have to bear the brunt of the traffic. No online ad is worth the cost of transferring huge files.

Posted by: voice_of_all_reason   Posted on: 10/31/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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