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- ScytheNoire, on 10/10/2007, -1/+103read the story before commenting please.
- Kasot, on 10/10/2007, -5/+93This is gonna scare the crap out of some people :)
- jc1985, on 10/10/2007, -1/+64Wasn't Miivi.org registered by The Pirate Bay as another middle-finger gesture to MediaDefender?
- AndrewMeyer, on 10/10/2007, -4/+62DON'T TRACK ME BRO... DON'T TRACK ME!
- lendrick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+57For those who don't RTFA, *this* particular miivi.org is actually run by The Pirate Bay.
- surilamin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+51Sensationalist headline. Read the damn article before commenting.
- LilJimmyNordin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+46Admiral Ackbar was right. About EVERYTHING.
- Kasot, on 10/10/2007, -7/+44In the rest of the WHOLE ***** WORLD, Heroes doesnt air for a couple of months yet.
My point is: There is a world outside America. - rabidmonkey1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+35Yaarrr, on the high seas, ye better know the mark of a true pirate!
Arr....and your title is a bit sensational/misleading... - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+38How ironic...going to prison for stealing a show about breaking out of prison.
- h4rdcor3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22Lots of reasons:
1. I am not able to watch it live
2. HD
3. people out side of the US
4.Make it a heroes party
5.Rewatch it for little things i missed the first time - NeoCortex, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23Wait, if I'm willing to pay for rapidshare, why would I be relying on torrents in the first place.
- Senn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21They managed to fool the INQUIRER with this anyway, and presumably plenty of others. Some people are seeing 'miivi' and are thinking OH NOES TRAP, makes me chuckle. :)
- wastern, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20While this title doesn't represent the article at all.....I had no choice but to download it this week (Heroes that is)
I work when its on
I just got a new DVR and the channels hadn't loaded yet so I couldn't set it
NBC.com was broken so I couldn't watch it there
NBC pulled all their shows from iTunes so I couldn't pay them for it even if I wanted
I have a Mac so I can't use the Amazon service where nbc moved there crap to (way to move to a Windows only platform NBC....the world isn't a 1-OS place)
torrent was the only way for me to watch this episode. And if I missed this one I wouldn't watch the rest of the season...which is now setup to record on the DVR. I really don't see how using a DVR or Media Center PC is any different the downloading a torrent. You get to watch it when you want, however many time you want and nbc doesn't see any more money. Just like using a VCR. I honestly don't know what the big deal is. I already pay for cable - sgoogle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18Yep, says so in the article
- carpespasm, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18thanks for the warning, i'd almost forgotten to download the latest heroes episode.
- Scynet, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17Hrrrmh, old, complicated network for news and discussions. Nothing to see here, move along...
- Murdats, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17dugg down for saying dugg down, it was cute at first, but no longer.
- samdu, on 10/28/2007, -0/+14And the suits tried to kill the VCR for exactly those reasons. Still, though, either it should be legal or not. The distribution method shouldn't factor into it at all.
- monospaced, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17I don't know what the big deal is, really. These shows air for free. We can record them and watch them later without commercials, and twenty years ago we all recorded shows on VHS and shared them. This isn't new, and the advertisers still get paid. I doubt you could get busted for downloading some already free television shows. *****, don't they want people enjoying their shows regardless of how they acquire them?
- jared9985, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13I see what you did there.
- DarkHornet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10At least if that were true, then people would already know how to break out (and get caught, then break out again, then get caught, then break out...)
- JesusDeluxe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10yep its for advertisements. sponsors want to pull the plug if no one is watching the ads so networks are responding by selling the shows via itunes or whatnot or streaming the content with ads. torrents bypass all of this.
I was even more confused when i got a warning letter for downloading sopranos even though i was paying for it during a period the cable company gave me a screwed up box that didnt work. Turns out the problem in my case was my torrents were also uploading to people who weren't paying for HBO like I was. - manageMyRights, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11WTF are you talking about. You can still put up rabbit ears and get FREE TV over the air. That's about as free as something can be. Sorry. And time-shifting TV is legal. Thats been decided in court.
Anything I get over the air I can record and watch at a later time. Most VCRs will even edit out commercials just like mythTV and similar PVR software programs will. Thats all 100% legal. Trying to claim that downloading the torrent is different is crazy. - jnadke, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12Dugg down because the author is retarded and should be banned from digg for sensationalist untrue headlines.
This is miivi.ORG, NOT miivi.COM.
The difference is the .ORG one is run by the Pirate Bay guys. The .COM one is run by the Media Defender guys. - 3210, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9It's nice to see that MD got screwed over in their attempt to create a honeypot, and instead they helped, in a way, to found a legitimate torrent website. They must be kicking themselves for this one.
- AndrewWiggin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Stupid thing is though, that you can only do that in America. I live in Canada and I can't go to that URL and watch it online. I have no idea why they made it this way because it just means I am going to torrent it instead.
- CyberSteve, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I'd guess that people downloading a commercial-free version does not make the networks very happy
- sodoh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Which would be great if the new shows were commercial free. Heroes while interesting has horrible product placement throughout every episode. For example Nissan cars are often written into scenes to the point where it is an obvious.
Or another one was one of the super people had super hearing. So sensitive she could hear heart beats from distance. Yet when she is killed she was wearing an ipod. They zoom slowly into the Ipod playing music sitting in a pool of blood yet not a drop of blood on it. They have it on screen for the length of an average advert. - tepidpond, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I'd digg you up a thousand times, if I could.
- itjamesd, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8dude i have no idea what you are on about. Kazzaa ftw.
- butiamjessica, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I think people do need to read miivi.org before commenting.
- sethisastud, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7How is that a spoiler? That happened like halfway through the first season.
- monospaced, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8I don't pay for cable, and I watch televisions shows on NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX because they are transmitted FREE, over the air.
Tivo doesn't interrupt your televisions shows with advertisments.
Downloading free shows shouldn't be illegal, since they're free. You can watch them free online from the broadcaster's websites also.
I did not just crawl out of a rock and decide to make a comment on illegal file sharing you *****' troll. If you didn't notice, I'm on the same page as you when it comes to supporting people watching anything they want regardless of how they acquire it. - Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Well, *all* miivi.org domains are run by various P2P people.
- MaXsteri, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Or, I don't know, maybe there are people that live outside the US! and/or use Firefox/Linux
"We're Sorry the requested download is unavailable. Downloads are only available to users located in the United States that have a Microsoft operating system and Internet Explorer web browser." - tepidpond, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Yess....that is exactly what Usenet is. Nothing more, never anything more. Listen to Skynet, it knows what's good for you.
- DivisibleByZero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I think they're pissed about DVRs too, which is why Grey's Anatomy ran 5 minutes late this week so I missed the end. Bastards.
Given that the commercials are outright removed from the torrents, I'd say they're more of a competitor for the DVD market than the broadcast episodes though. Even when your DVR makes you fast-forward through the commercials, they get a little bit of advertising. - cquilliam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I remember when someone called into either Screen Savers or Call For Help asking if it was alright if they downloaded the episodes online and Leo told them to go ahead as long as the comercials were intact he didn't see a problem with it. Before a commercial break he joked that their lawyers are probably trying to call him.
- oxymoron69, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5You're the dumbass...
Not everyone in the world lives in the USA and can have that streaming deal work.
Torrents FTW!!!!! - erkston, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007 ...
- LilJimmyNordin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Absolutely right. We only use it to keep the old days alive a little longer. Often, it's full of huge text files containing nothing but ascii jibberish, useful for nothing.
- Zipp425, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I think thats why NBC made it so you can watch it online... I hadn't tried it before, but when I missed the season premiere I watched it online, and the quality was actually fairly decent... http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/video/episodes.shtml
- crossmr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3what a non-story. if anyone was paranoid, they could have checked the website and very clearly seen the message posted there...
- diggboy101, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Well with torrents you can do whatever you want with the file.
- Bootes, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The car sponsor was Toyota in the first season. This is why the japanese characters were driving a Yaris the whole season.
The first episode of the second season was sponsored by Nissan. - hasansexy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Thanks for the spoiler:)
- Dhalgren, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"Even when your DVR makes you fast-forward through the commercials, they get a little bit of advertising."
Not when you have MythTV, you can skip right over the commercials... - WhereAmI, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The headline is fine, it says Miivi.org not .com, the only thing the submitter said was "A trap perhaps?" at the very end, which he now has no credibility anymore.
- secretivecoward, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Seeding is for losers...leech!
"No, Miivi.org has nothing to do with the alleged honeypot project from MediaDefender which was hosted on MiiVi.com. On the contrary, the Miivi tracker is a project in part sponsored by The Pirate Bay and other BitTorrent sites." -
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