mikeindustries.com — So when you’re in the middle of a season of 24 and you miss an episode because your cable box was too busy, ummmmm, displaying the time, what do you do? What CAN you do? There are no repeats. There are no free downloads for cable subscribers. The only thing you can do is hop on Azureus and BitTorrent yourself the episode you missed.
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digithedApr 12, 2006
This is only possible because the BBC is funded by the license fee and owns or negotiates the copyright to everything it shows. A commercial channel would never offer this kind of service. The BBC is doing this to try and justify the license fee in a modern age where viewers have a lot of other alternatives and I, for one, think it's excellent. Although I cannot in fact benefit from this as I am an expat living in Sweden. However, given the chance, I would be happy to pay the license fee to access BBC programs online (high speed broadband is common and cheap here in Sweden) but it doesn't look like this will be possible anytime soon so I will continue using bittorrent in the meantime.
jayfApr 12, 2006
And "Hal Burton" the vice prez.What was the name of the company Dick Cheney worked for?
fellApr 13, 2006
Experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman reveal that when a person watches television, brain activity switches from the left to the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the seat of logical thought. Here, information is broken down into its component parts and critically analyzed. The right brain, however, treats incoming data uncritically, processing information in wholes, leading to emotional, rather than logical responses. The shift from left to right brain activity also causes the release of endorphins, the body’s own natural opiates–thus, it is possible to become physically addicted to watching television, a hypothesis borne out by numerous studies which have shown that very few people are able to kick the television habit. It’s no longer an overstatement to note that the youth today that are raised and taught through network television are intellectually dead by their early teens.
conto1987Apr 13, 2006
You dont really HAVE To do anything
osjprApr 13, 2006
"It won't last forever...." Recording and copying stuff has been happening for decades. Nothing has ever broke and never will, hence, "RIAA crying wolf all the way to the bank"
bluemechApr 13, 2006
You can live without the shows, you do not HAVE to watch them. If you can't get the because of [x] circumsatnce, too bad. You will live without it, or you will pirate it. It's your call, quit trying to justify it. Some people download movies, shows, music, and games because they don't want to pay for them. Simple as that, no need to justify it. They don't say, well I would buy it, but uhhh... I can't... you know...
samkApr 13, 2006
David Pogue just wrote a story exactly like this one in his weekly email column for the NY Times.
sc00terApr 18, 2006
Sorry, it's long...I don't look at it as a way for me to steal. I think that it is a means of cheap distrubution that should be taken advantage of, and is not. Think if there was NBC, and NBC online (and not gay apple store $18.00 per episode). I like the iTunes music store, but I will not pay for free TV. I think that NBC online could market to people as well as advertisers. Think about the possibilities of being able to click an ad, and view the website from the advertiser. Distrubution is cheaper than anything, and it is reaching a very large audience. But think if it wasn't NBC online. Let's say Company X starts an online tv station (completely possible, seeing as there isn't any startup cost) and tells the producers of a show that they will host their torrent files and keep a seed open and online for bitTorrent in exchange for 1, 30sec spot during a show. The company produces the show for $100,000 an episode. Normally NBC would pay them $300,000 for an episode, then sell $5mil in advertising. This gives the big dog NBC the rights to choose the timeslot and advertising for the show, leaving the producers (the guys with talent) with their head tucked between their legs. So instead the producers sell direct to the advertisers, for 1/4 the price, bringing in $1million straight to the cast of the show. Content is distributed legally on bitTorrent, and websites. Pirates and legal junkies are all happy.