2007 9
Jaman or what you cannot find on the Pirate Bay
Published by MartinVarsavsky.net in Found on the net with No Comments
I recently learned about Jaman and I liked what I saw. While most people think that piracy is about saving money I think that that is only part of the story. The other part is that content is easy to find, without commercials, in the language of your choice and unrestricted. But the problem with piracy is that the principle of torrenting is crowds, now what happens when there´s very few people on the net interested in watching a certain movie? That´s when Jaman kicks in, it´s about long tail movie content of the kind that I frequently love and can rarely find. Surprisingly the sustainability of Jaman may actually derive from the fact that most of its content does not have enough collective bandwidth to make it worthwhile to copy.
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Miguel on May 10, 2007 ·
Thank you very much for the link, the site is great!
And I agree with you, completely, it’s an easy way to find movies that -for some reason- are difficult to get in some countries (e.g.: Films of directors like Marcos Carnevale, Jess Franco or Bong Joon-ho in USA).
Roel on May 10, 2007 ·
I discovered Jaman a couple of weeks ago, and thought it was a fantastic idea! But unfortunately, there is no Linux version of the Jaman player available. So Ubuntu users like me are out of luck.
It looks like the demand for a Linux player isn’t very high yet, so if you want to use Jaman on your Ubuntu desktop, I suggest you add your voice to this forum thread:
http://www.jaman.com/a/forum/1/discussion/03bzJKs2QMOw/
euronerd on May 10, 2007 ·
Jaman uses it’s “own” DRM.
Are you in favor of DRM, and if so, what do you think of proprietary DRM?
In my opinion DRM is extremely consumer unfriendly. The industry should acknowledge that and consequently start thinking about better ways to earn money.
DRM is only the next step in protectionism, that will have a short-time validity but in the meantime consumers will suffer from the related incompatibilities and price effects.
Martin Varsavsky on May 10, 2007 ·
Roel,
This is weird, cause I think i saw the movie with my ubuntu laptop.
Martin Varsavsky on May 10, 2007 ·
Jos,
I am in favor of people protecting their movies and then learning that protection may not work.
Roel on May 10, 2007 ·
Martin,
I just tried it again (installing the Windows Jaman player inside Wine) and it definitely doesn’t work. That’s what you get when you are using a minority desktop OS.
But I’m hopeful it may work in a next version of Wine, because I get an error message just like described in this recently fixed Wine bug:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5330
Euronerd on May 11, 2007 ·
#6, Martin,
And that learning proces seems to be rather difficult. And expensive.
Antoin O Lachtnain on May 13, 2007 ·
What way do you think the record companies and movie companies should distribute their movies to maximize their revenues? I have a blog post about this here.
http://www.eire.com/2007/05/10/how-can-the-music-industry-do-itself-a-favour/
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Gaurav on May 10, 2007 ·
thanks for the kind words about jaman, we’re constantly adding stuff to love, yet hard to find.