amungusPremium
join:2004-11-26
America Reviews:
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| time for change In all seriousness, what is the freakin' problem w/people sharing a tv show??? I might understand if it were HBO shows or whatnot that "the man" gets upset about... but regular tv, even cable tv should be shareable...
What is the difference between someone doing this, or someone letting a friend borrow a VHS tape???
This absurdity of people getting sued over something so harmless has to stop at some point.
I don't even use BT, except for random game patches, or an occasional Linux distro. But I'll say this much: I will NEVER want to buy another tv show from iTunes, unless they up the quality AND lower the price.
Tried ONCE to get a Battlestar Galactica episode only to find that my $2 (WAAAAAAY OVERPRICED BTW!) resulted in a SLOWLY downloaded video file who's quality was WORSE than I could've possibly imagined. The show was utterly UNWATCHABLE on a 15" laptop display. There's something seriously wrong w/that IMO.
The idiots who keep spouting about how bad piracy is need to seriously change their tune. If ABC and others can offer watchable (and free I might add) online video, WHO CARES if someone else wants to trade??? Why not leave a torrent of their own out there, even if it DID have a couple commercials, that others can download and watch. I just about GUARANTEE it'd be at least a little bit popular for ordinary users to click, download, and start watching pretty soon. It'd also have some level of assurance that the quality would be good, and that it was "official" and not some chance you're taking on a virus etc.
To me, I guess someone trading a TV show just isn't all that evil in my mind. Sure, I understand bootlegging something that you should pay for is wrong, but a TV show to which you already probably subscribe to??? Give everyone a break here, that's preposterous. No different than letting your friend, brother, or neighbor borrow your VHS tape that you might have recorded a show with. Nothing different about it except that the 'net was used instead of your two feet. Get over it.
Surprising that those stats say more people trade ordinary TV shows than anything else.
A logical person might conclude then that MOST cases against 'evil' downloaders are preposterous and that the practice of suing your audience should stop. ...Somehow I doubt the troll(s) would agree. |
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| I know NBC posts all the Heroes episodes online for free, so its not like other networks can't do the same. |
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 IridiumPremium
join:2003-04-02
Los Angeles, CA
·DSL EXTREME
1 edit | said by o2cool8:I know NBC posts all the Heroes episodes online for free, so its not like other networks can't do the same. I think NBC is the only network that is starting to get it. Watching the same Blackberry ad at the start of each section is annoying but that is the only way I can watch heros right now (aside from using bittorrent). I don't use my torrent site for Heroes because it messes up my ratio, I am usually the last person to jomp on a torrent.
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My next laptop will be an Apple, I am fed up with PC's and Windows. |
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 MarkRHPremium
join:2005-02-08
Oklahoma City, OK | Yeah, my DVR hiccuped and didn't record an episode of Heros.. or it did but something else caused it not to show so it recorded the end of some sports show.
Anyway, I was pleased that NBC allowed me to watch the show online.. pretty good quality as well. Speaking of which, I have an episode sitting on there I've yet to watch. |
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| reply to Iridium
The problem with this is that they usually look like crap, can't be viewed outside of a web browser, etc.
If I miss a 24 episode, am I going to wait six months until it comes out on DVD? No, I'll ask a friend if he taped it. But this is 2007, not 1997, - so I go straight to the internet. I don't see a difference. |
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mobbo
join:2005-04-13
Denton, TX | reply to Iridium
Negative. NBC is one of the few networks that notify your ISP if you DL their shows on BT. They want you to buy their shows on iTunes or watch them via their own online viewer... with commercials. |
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| reply to amungus
The networks don't want you down loading TV shows, because they want to sell you the DVD box sets. If I was a TV executive I would distributed TV shows via a bit torrent with the commercials for free. The shows will be at least 720p using mpeg4 to reduce the file size; however, I would partner up with WMA or QuickTime so that the view can't fast forward the commercials, save it or strip out the commercials. |
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| said by compton:The networks don't want you down loading TV shows, because they want to sell you the DVD box sets. If I was a TV executive I would distributed TV shows via a bit torrent with the commercials for free. The shows will be at least 720p using mpeg4 to reduce the file size; however, I would partner up with WMA or QuickTime so that the view can't fast forward the commercials, save it or strip out the commercials. Box sets and advertisements. When the show is "on the air" they want you seeing the ads. Your idea makes sense though. I would say, if a box set of let's say, 20 episodes, is $50 retail. That would be roughly $2.50 per episode. Would you, or anyone, be willing to pay $2.50 for an ad-free, high quality download of the program? Maybe $2 would be more reasonable, as no media or "extras" are included? ($2.50 sounds more likely, as it's also paying for bandwidth) They could offer a "free" version, less quality with commercials.
Either way, people would still torrent it for free. |
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