Comments on: CBC To Release TV-Show via BitTorrent, For Free

By: Mininova Torrent Tracker To Face Legal Battle - Clone-Zone FxP

Mininova Torrent Tracker To Face Legal Battle - Clone-Zone FxP — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:22:40 +0000

[...] Mininova displays user submitted torrents and carries legitimate premium content from publishers such as CBC. Unlike The Pirate Bay, the site does not have their own BitTorrent tracker. It transpires that [...]

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By: Mininova Faces Legal Action: Filter or Else at IDTorrent Blog

Mininova Faces Legal Action: Filter or Else at IDTorrent Blog — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:17:33 +0000

[...] Mininova displays user submitted torrents and carries legitimate premium content from publishers such as CBC. Unlike The Pirate Bay, the site does not have their own BitTorrent [...]

By: Zwartbaard » Blog Archive » Mininova Faces Legal Action: Filter or Else

Mon, 19 May 2008 09:36:40 +0000

[...] Mininova displays user submitted torrents and carries legitimate premium content from publishers such as CBC. Unlike The Pirate Bay, the site does not have their own BitTorrent [...]

By: Mininova Faces Legal Action: Filter or Else | TorrentFreak

Mininova Faces Legal Action: Filter or Else | TorrentFreak — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:42:22 +0000

[...] Mininova displays user submitted torrents and carries legitimate premium content from publishers such as CBC. Contrary to The Pirate Bay, the site does not have their own BitTorrent [...]

By: paul

paul — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:43:31 +0000

how do you get this stuff man as i want prison break free

By: Zwartbaard.nl » Blog Archive » Mininova Helps CBC to Distribute TV-Show

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:08:23 +0000

[...] week we reported that CBC, Canada’s public television broadcaster, was about to release CNGPM on BitTorrent. [...]

By: Canadian Broadcaster Follows Norway’s Lead By Utilising BitTorrent As Distribution Method » Web TV Wire

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:42:19 +0000

[...] Geist has written about the CBC’s move, and so has TorrentFreak, and CNET. Mike Masnick at Techdirt has taken note of it as [...]

By: CBC follows Norway’s BitTorrent lead - - mathewingram.com/work

CBC follows Norway’s BitTorrent lead - - mathewingram.com/work — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:17:15 +0000

[...] Geist has written about the CBC’s move, and so has TorrentFreak, and CNET. Mike Masnick at Techdirt has taken note of it as [...]

By: Mininova Helps CBC to Distribute TV-Show | Pirate Releases

Mininova Helps CBC to Distribute TV-Show | Pirate Releases — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:12:17 +0000

[...] week we reported that CBC, Canada’s public television broadcaster, was about to release CNGPM on BitTorrent. [...]

By: n3l87

n3l87 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:09:06 +0000

Thank you for letting us know about this.

And thanks to Guinevere for posting the link to the site.

I have just spent the last few hours trying to spread the word out. We as a whole community needs to support this, Canadian or not.

This could be just the start of the revolution we’ve been looking for.

By: Guinevere

Guinevere — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:11:33 +0000

The torrent is up!
http://www.cbc.ca/nextprimeminister/blog/2008/03/download_canadas_next_great_pr.html

By: Mr. X

Mr. X — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:57:34 +0000

maybe if they dont make us download a ‘fagged up’ bitrorrent client ill be more than happy to download it

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:41:38 +0000

That is why Canada rocks!

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Ram — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:27:00 +0000

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By: waiting

waiting — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:06:59 +0000

This is a good start. But…. the Conservative government, a pack of Bush ass-kisers still want to bring in a law that makes the US laws look like the recoding companies are Santa Clause. This isn’t over until we kill all the Conservatives. They are nothing but right-wing religious zealots.

By: god

god — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:40:22 +0000

too bad can’t do with scripted shows cuz actors/writers/directors have to get paid but maybe hope for low monthly fee with unlimited downloads for all shows

By: Flying Squirrel

Flying Squirrel — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:42:28 +0000

[quote comment="314590"]For those who have never seen it, the CBC is particularly unwatchable. They come up with awful original programming that ends up with about a half dozen viewers in the whole country.
[/quote]
Hey! That’s not fair! Okay, a lot of the programming on CBC is really boring. Its national or international news, or its biographical or scientific or geographic or economic documentaries, or its professional reports and commentators for major and often otherwise COMPLETELY unreported world events – in other words, CBC programming is INTELLIGENT! Its not FUN, its USEFUL; its the only thing remotely close to an awareness of the rest of the world and current/recent-historical world conditions any Canadians have!!!

Its boring because its content is neither fluff nor eye candy, but rather professional journalism, and it puts every other major news outlet (Global, which only talks about how many people got shot in Toronto today, CTV, which only talks about how the kids at St. Mary’s highschool put on a great science fair vs. CBC, which traverses the latest famine in North Korea, the genocide currently happening in Kenya, the brutal crackdown on protesting Tibetian monks, the latest violation of NAFTA by the states, and the results of the parliamentary elections in Germany).

Honest to God, I love fluff – B5, Futurama, Alias, House – great work, really fun to watch, really pleasant and enjoyable – but a completely different animal!
[quote comment="314596"]BTW as a few previous commentors have noted, the CBC is a TOTAL PROPAGANDA OUTLET run by media-whores that would make Fox-news jealous.
One thing you’ll never hear them talk about is the brutal regime running China and harvesting organs of dissenters. In fact, they’ve been caught actively censoring these uncomfortable truths.[/quote]
I don’t know, I haven’t watched for a while, but when I do, they consistently report the news fairly, accurately, and with a minimum of censorship; bear in mind, while they report the news, they don’t go out of their way to pull the tiger’s tail!

I can see this as a great way for the beginning of legal torrents, because its hazy whether providing entertainment to Canadian citizens should be part of the CBC’s mission, providing impartial news/docs/etc + citizen-centric material like “Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister” is definitely within the realm of CBC’s “duty” to the taxpayers, and therefore the use of low-cost transmission methods IS fully justified end-to-end, rightful-creation to rightful-distribution; moral and legal from a->zed:)

By: A.R.

A.R. — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:06:03 +0000

The CBC has a lot of quality programming. The comedy stuff like 22 Minutes, Rick Mercer, Just for Laughs. Plus their news and sports coverage is great, as are shows like Marketplace.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:10:57 +0000

“This effectively removes the argument that all torrents are illegal”

Nah, it just changes it to “all torrents SHOULD be illegal”.