Comments on: Google shuts down pay-per-download movie site

By: hemilore

hemilore — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:47:37 +0000

tv-links has been shut down,and the owner was arrested. Which totally sucks, because it was a great site! Here is a link to a news story about it. http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11521.cfm

By: test5477

test5477 — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:13:14 +0000

google’s site was a flop, easy as that.

as for apple and google,sometimes partnerships can work they are not always to hurt the consumer. Sometimes they are needed to compete against a larger corp. -MS

By: Aaron J. Walker

Aaron J. Walker — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:07:43 +0000

mikeyp, I’m just saying these two corporations have gotten very chummy lately. Maybe it didn’t have anything to do with their relationship with Apple, but my jury is still out on this one.

Label me all you want, but I’m immediately suspicious of “strategic alliances” like Apple and Google or anybody and anybody else since those type of deals rarely work out well for the consumer.

Anytime two big companies start working so closely together, it should make every consumer start to wonder what’s happening behind closed doors.

By: mikeyp

mikeyp — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:31:27 +0000

aaron your worse than gal with the conspiracy theory. google has very few failures but this would be one, they did this before the you tube purchase thats the reasons not apple.

By: Aaron J. Walker

Aaron J. Walker — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:54:46 +0000

You guys are missing it.

So nobody has noticed how “chummy” these two major corporations have gotten? They each sit on each other’s boards for crying out loud! It’s a wonder the DOJ isn’t snooping around yet.

Steve Jobs called the Google guys and said “Since we are completely in bed with each other on the downlow, why don’t you turn that off now.” And Google said, “Yes, master. Anything for you Steve.”

By: LoganT

LoganT — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:16:41 +0000

“gal, i really think [hypocrite]your an idiot, no one gives your posts and credence as you cannot even spell.[/hypocrite]“

By: mikeyp

mikeyp — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:21:20 +0000

theft is theft, i agree DRM is not the way to combat it but i’m never going to suggest that people can steal music or movies and its ok.

i’m all for phasing out drm for something better.
if you think its about paying over and over then your not as tech savy as you might think. i’m not a fan of riaa/mpaa tactics but they do have a role to fill, people steal things all the time from p2p and its no different that going into a music store and walking out with tons of cds, no difference.

gal, i really think your an idiot, no one gives your posts and credence as you cannot even spell.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:15:29 +0000

exacly ifa anything the recorcing indusry are the real theifs

if you ver seen the beakdown of a cd albums pricetag only 14% coes the the artist

5-6% goes to replicatore the rest goes to the record or film label. heck itunes is even worse for the artist. one guy i met is ina aband touring aplle scews em over they have pretty much resorting to selling media off their website.

By: gquaglia

gquaglia — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:27:47 +0000

Also DRM isn’t about theft or piracy, its about making people pay and pay over and over again for the right to use media. Theft was nothing more then a smoke screen.

By: gquaglia

gquaglia — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:26:17 +0000

@MikeyP
Well as a matter of fact DRM is on the decline. Just a few days ago, Universal announced that it will be testing DRM free music. The writing is on the wall, DRM is a failed experiment and only the blind will continue to support it to their demise, I’m afraid.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:12:03 +0000

you tell me your willing to tell me your willing to pay $15-20 for somthing tha costs less than a buck to make?

By: mikeyp

mikeyp — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:16:21 +0000

who’s gouging for songs? or mivies for that matter? they cant stop piracy but pirates cant stop organizations protecting intellectual property. drm will not go away but it does need to change.

By: galvatron

galvatron — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:13:04 +0000

boo hoo. this only futher proves tn the motion picture an recording industries need to change the business model an stop gauge with un justifiable prices ultimatly you can’t stop piracy as long as your gauging for a song
theres this thing called price erosion deal with it

By: mikeyp

mikeyp — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:50:39 +0000

Way to oversimplify the drm and media delivery problem. No one has any good solutions and I for one think that more ways of delivery are needed. more ways the better, but i dont think drm will simply go away. theft is still theft.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:34:37 +0000

Google is taking over the world.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:35:12 +0000

Agreed frm sux period

By: argonnj

argonnj — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:02:01 +0000

Just another reason why DRM media is a dead end idea. Who would want to pay for content that evaporates if the provider folds. The more consumers learn the folly of this, the quicker DRM can buried as one of the worst ideas in recent history.

By: Jeff B.

Jeff B. — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:05:54 +0000

Hey if you want free, yes the good type of free, videos go here http://www.tv-links.co.uk. It has some of the best tv shows, movies, cartoons, etc. etc. from the U.S. and A, to the U. and the K., to lots of other places in between.

By: Jeff B.

Jeff B. — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:02:38 +0000

Well that’s a dumb thing to do I mean if they refunded $2.00 per video downloaded then it wouldn’t be so bad but that’s just bullshit. Sorry Google but consumers come before your jets.

By: victor

victor — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:00:36 +0000

Even if they didn’t own “gVideo”, there are too many sites that offer content as well as the major studios are now delivering content in all different ways.

By: Admiral

Admiral — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:23:38 +0000

Google really needed something better to compete with apple.
I really hope that some sort of lawsuit comes out of this, not for the sake of damages, but for future consumer protection. I dont buy DRM’d music or videos from Apple (or anyone else for that matter), but what’s to say that if some other service bites the dust, you won’t be left with a dud?

By: marvONE

marvONE — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:50:55 +0000

Who didn’t see this coming, and they own one of the biggest free video clips sites on the net. Why pay for it on gVideo when the “sister site” had it for free they should have shut this down earlier.