seattlepi.nwsource.com — Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday launched a paid service that lets people download certain TV shows. This seems to be a large boost for Portable Media Centers, which otherwise lacked much legal content.
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techgurl19Apr 1, 2005
Wonder if the price will stay 19.95 a year
raj3Apr 1, 2005
"Television addicts rejoice: Now you can take more shows on the road." - and they have been for a while now already, for free and with more programs than this garbage, and unlike microsoft's service these are shows that _dont_ suck: btefnet.net - msnvideo is not worth it at all, even if microsoft's was free and you had to pay for tvtorrents/btefnet the latter would still be better.
rebradApr 1, 2005
The difference between the Microsoft service and tvtorrents is that Microsoft is legal, the other questionable.
raj3Apr 2, 2005
yes i realized that but in this case i didnt think it would be helpful to add a point concerning that because i didnt think most of the goody goodies that like handing over money to the executives instead of getting stuff for free would care in this case. because tvtorrents and etc. have nearly the same function as tivo or a vcr. i really dont understand why people care about whether this kind of thing is legal or not, as far as being a p2p consumer goes there are few downsides, chances of an average consumer (not distributer) getting caught are quite slim.