TorrentFreak reported that Flixtor and Torrentlookup was shutdown by the developers voluntarily due to pressure from MPAA. They were looking down the barrel of a huge lawsuit and were not capable to defend themselves in courts.
I haven't seen nor used Flixtor, but from the screencap and description i gather it was quite a bit of innovation - a competing product for Netflix but using torrents as the distribution mechanism and apparently free for users.
Now this is the kind of innovation we need, but is being stiffled by MPAA, RIAA and the likes. Just imagine,easy to use app for the newest movies and a huge selection, powered by bittorrent on the backend hence costing 0 for the developers to handle the distribution of data, and free for users.
Why, couldn't they just work with them? Make some kind of deal to keep this innovation moving. The irony is that this is the kind of innovation which actually is in the best interest of copyright holders, really the only question should be how do we monetize this platform where our releases freshly available and has a huge market, and has zero distribution costs, worldwide access. Even if the copyright holders would receive just few cents per viewing of a movie, they would stand to make a killing when something like this becomes popular enough.
Since distribution is powered by Bittorrent, it's accessible from China, India etc. at the same flat rate, and those are some huge markets out there.
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