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May 22, 2004

Shrek

waxy.org points to the incredibly fast online availability of Shrek2. Perhaps this'll be a watershed of some sort.

It would take a while to download. But I've moved bigger files across a home Internet connection before (eg. VMware machines), and honestly, it's no big deal. Overnight.

I personally felt the MP3 watershed happened when it became easy to download music faster than you could listen to it (ie. with something bigger than a 64kbit line). Movies aren't background media, so I don't want to directly apply this to video, but we're definitely near a tipping point. Track the "TV shows" torrent category listings for a few days. Something like "networked tivo" is already here.