Legitimate BitTorrent gets torrents of abuse

P2P OUTFIT BitTorrent's attempt to produce a legitimate service is floundering because of technical bugs.

According to ArsTechica, although using the service to find movies is a doddle, it does have some problems.

Firstly the movies are DRMed so that they can only play on Windows. The files require Windows Media Player 10 and when they were played in WMP11 the reviewer got a vague error message.

BitTorrent also had a few problems identifying where the buyer comes from. Apparently the reviewers PC was convinced he was not in America until he changed his computer to a Mac.

Although the files could not be played on a Mac, BitTorrent cheerfully took his cash anyway.

Seed numbers were low. In fact there were never more than two people seeding at any one time. However the speed was pretty good although on a par with other paid services.

With all the DRM restrictions, it the reviewer had a devil of a job actually watching a movie which, we believe was the aim of the exercise.