Cord Cutting Is The New File-Sharing

Cord cutting will kill Hollywood. Cord cutting doesn’t exist. Cord cutting is the future. Cord cutting is only done by poor kids who will change their ways when they get a real job: These days, it seems like everyone is talking about cord cutting, the trend of people ditching their pay TV subscription for online alternatives.

I’ve written many stories about the subject over the years as well, and I’ve been making how-to videos for people interested in cutting the cord.

But lately, all that rhetoric about cord cutting has been sounding awfully familiar, and I started to wonder: Where had I heard that before? And then it hit me: Cord cutting is the new file-sharing.

Of course, I don’t mean to say that all cord cutters are pirates. Sure, a subset of them are definitely getting their TV show fix from BitTorrent sites and cyberlockers after ditching cable, especially in countries where no legal alternatives exist. But in the U.S., many people instead turn to Hulu, Netflix and even free over-the-air TV once they cut the cable cord.

Still, cord cutting and file-sharing have a lot in common. On the surface, both are about paying less for movies and TV shows. But take a closer look, and you’ll realize that money is only part of the equation. What really unites cord cutters and file-sharers is that they want to take their media consumption into their own hands.

Cord cutters don’t just want to watch what’s on TV at any given time anymore, and they don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars a year on channels they don’t need, or don’t agree with. Instead, they want to have access to the media they want, when they want it, on the devices of their choice.

The same is true for file-sharing. Sure, one of the reasons that people download torrents is that they’re free. But more often than not, free is the only price point that TV shows or movies are available at to begin with. It can take months before U.S. TV shows become available in Europe or elsewhere, and broadcasters in countries like Germany still think that their audience would rather listen to horrible dubbing as opposed to the English original. In many cases, the only way to get that new TV show episode everyone is talking about on Twitter and Facebook is BitTorrent.

Finally, both file-sharing and cord cutting are driving innovation, often against established industries that would rather keep things the way they are. If it wasn’t for file-sharing, Spotify & Co. wouldn’t exist. And if it wasn’t for people looking for alternatives to traditional cable, Netflix would still just be a DVD rental service.

But this potential for disruption doesn’t bode well with everyone. Movie studios and record companies have been waging a legal war against file-sharing ever since the days of Napster. These days, they’ve found another target: Cord cutting innovators like the New York-based startup Aereo that makes broadcast TV streams available over the web.

Chances are, broadcasters and Hollywood studios will win at least some of these battles, and cable companies will use their market power to keep their online competition in check. But just as file-sharers have done before them, cord cutters will prove their smarts and show us that some things just can’t be stopped.

About The Author

Janko Roettgers is the author of the new e-book Cut the cord – all you need to know to drop cable. He’s also a staff writer for GigaOM, host of the online video show Cord Cutters and guilty of neglecting his P2P Blog.

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thedude321

This is very true. All people want is more convenience, we cannot be tied down by old business models. Companies exist for the benefit of the consumer, the MAFIAA has got it all wrong these days. And yes, innovation cannot be blocked, it can only be delayed.

Vive la Revolution! :P
- ROMaster2
  
  Precisely, let the free market decide what the consumers want and not have forced monopolies by the governments.
  - Guest
    
    You can sure bet the MAFFIA will never want this free market and will do everything legal and illegal to make sure that everyone in the world abides by there market and if they don’t then face being sued. A free market will be the best choice and those that provide a better service with people will of course be the winners.
    - VanceClifton55
      
      Things are not always what they seem, A stopped clock is right twice a day!
  - Freemarketeer
    
    Read Rothbard
  - Guest
    
    Do you think “free market” exists? hahaha
    - Freemarketeer
      
      A free market is a market where people trade peacefully and voluntarily. Since there is a violent monopoly (aka government) that exists in most countries on Earth that uses violence via laws and regulations to control people it is very rare to actually see an example of a free market. Probably the best example of a free market is the internet.
- brudda
  
  ”Companies exist for the benefit of the consumer.”
  What!?! Are you really that stupid, or are you from Europe? Companies exist to make a profit, numbnuts.
  - SpellingNazi
    
    And to make a profit they must benefit the customer…
    - Death
      
      …and use their workers to death, who spend most of their life in hopes that the company will return their sweat, stress, and tears with an equal amount of compensation.
    - Freemarketeer
      
      @517d78284b7c3c11761723a88254597d:disqus The relationship between a worker and a company is voluntary. If the worker doesn’t like his work he can choose to change it. If he doesn’t like his company he can choose to change it. If he doesn’t like having a boss he can choose to work for himself.
      
      However, his “relationship” with government is coercive. At least 4 months out of the 12 months of a year in wages is stolen from his paycheck by the government. If the worker wishes to work he must follow arbitrary rules & regulations and must be a submit to be a member inside an imaginary line called a border. If the worker wishes to work for himself he must get permission from government.
      
      If you are actually interested in the welfare of the worker you would oppose such coercion by governments, and not the companies who make an effort to improve the world via voluntary means.
    - Scary_Devil_Monastery
      
      No, not if they can simply ensure the customer has no better alternatives.
      
      Take a look at Apple, Microsoft ,or for that matter any company which has had a monopoly market to itself. You will find them using any trick in the book if it promises to let them retain that monopoly.
      
      Hence any company in the situation of losing said monopoly will start playing dirty. Where the media industry is concerned, as we’ve seen, this includes taking legal alternatives off the market post-haste. By any means available.
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      Freemarketeer, what you miss is that the ‘permission from government’ is meant to make sure that everyone is paying the taxes that they should as part of a SOCIETY.
      
      Taxes are nasty, but in the real world they are just plain necessary because there are some things that humans just cannot do on their own, such as build bridges, maintain roads, etc.
    - Freemarketeer
      
      @google-6bb179a6b07a293b0dbe2e8887cdb03f:disqus You are conflating society with government. They are not the same thing. Society is a group of individuals. Government is a group of individuals who claim to have the monopoly on the use of violence in a geographical area.
      No one actually voluntary “pays” taxes. They are threatened with violence (kidnapping/arrest, imprisonment) for peacefully refusing.
      
      Indeed, you are correct that there are some things an individual cannot do by themself but this does not mean they should be stolen from to make these things.
      
      I couldn’t make a computer by myself but that does not mean I should go around and threaten my neighbors to hand over money to pay some group to start building pc’s. No, what makes the market so wonderful is that people can come together and make things happen. Read I, Pencil to see how something so complicated can be made.
      
      Also, if people truly wanted these things they don’t need to be aggressed against. Do you need to rape your wife to get her to have sex with you?
    - Lofa
      
      ”Government is a group of individuals who claim to have the monopoly on the use of violence in a geographical area.”
      
      Your definition misses one key point. I’ll change it for you.
      
      “Government is a group of individuals who claim to have the monopoly on the use of violence in a geographical area with the consent, either implied or expressed, of the individuals living in that geographical area”.
      
      You need to remember that all governmental power comes from the consent of those who are governed by it. The use of violence by the government is sanctioned by society, either through their express permission, or their refusal to act against it. You as an individual do not sanction it, but that is irrelevant unless you can gather enough voices with you to cause a societal change.
      
      “They are threatened with violence (kidnapping/arrest, imprisonment) for peacefully refusing.”
      
      Individuals do not exist independent of each other, they all exist in and rely on society. The government represents the collective will of
      that society. Since they are not independent from society, it is not
      coercive that restrictions are placed on them by the society. Assuming that people can choose to opt out of society’s requirement’s ignores that they still collect society’s benefits. If they want to choose to not be part of society, then they can avoid the requirements it places upon them.
      
      In short, society happens when people give up freedom for the benefits of civilization. Those workers would not have a job without society. They would not have the amenities they do without a form of society. The government is meant to serve as the will of a society. To say that it is unjust to workers that they have requirements placed on them by the society that ensures their well being, the society that they do choose to be a voluntary part of, is unjustified.
    - Freemarketeer
      
      @efa44bf6304a189bc0213eed1a3b5366:disqus Governmental power does not come from consent. If it did they would ask me and others for permission/consent before stealing a portion of my wages. There is no such thing as society. It is a word to describe a group of individuals. Only individuals exist.
      Saying that governmental power comes from consent and then saying that it does not matter if you as an individual do not sanction it (consent) is a logical contradiction. Just like saying up and down are the same thing.
      
      Indeed, a lot more people need to become aware of the violence of the state before we can begin to abolish it.
      
      Yes, individuals can not exist independent of each, they exist in and rely on others individuals. Again, you are making the same error as a previous poster by wrongfully conflating society with government.
      
      Workers have a job because of other individuals in a society, not because of government. Governments can only create jobs after they steal money (tax) from others, but because these jobs are created from stolen money they do no benefit society in the long run.
      
      If the gov didn’t steal that money those individuals would have spent that money elsewhere creating jobs. Since they are the ones spending their own money they get to choose where to create jobs. With gov stealing their money they do not get a choice and most of the time this money goes to bankers, corporations and wars. This is really just simple economics and for more information check out “The Broken Window Fallacy”.
      
      Jobs, amenities, etc, can and do exist without government. Individuals in society come together to provide these things peacefully and voluntarily.
      
      It is not true that government serves the will of the individuals in a society becaus it uses violence to force people to do things against their will via laws and regulations. As I asked a previous commentor, if people really wanted these things do they need to be aggressed against? Do you need to rape your wife to get her to have sex with you?
    - Lofa
      
      @828f465580042819ea5f005d2230dc80:disqus
      
      “Governmental power does not come from consent. If it did they would ask
      me and others for permission/consent before stealing a portion of my
      wages. There is no such thing as society. It is a word to describe a
      group of individuals. Only individuals exist. ”
      
      Society does exist. Large collections of individuals make up groups, and groups make up society. The existence of corporations, businesses, governmental agencies, charities, the food you eat and every other thing that is part of daily life that you did not make yourself is a societal benefit. The fact that humans can be in a situation where they are not part of any society or group does not change the fact that society does exist, and we are both currently a part of one.
      
      “Saying that governmental power comes from consent and then saying
      that it does not matter if you as an individual do not sanction it
      (consent) is a logical contradiction. Just like saying up and down are
      the same thing.”
      
      Incorrect. The consent of society as a whole matters. Your individual consent does not, unless (as I stated in my last post) you can gather up enough like-minded individuals to make an impact on society.
      
      To put it simply, by living peaceably in society, you give implied consent to the government’s rule. Anytime you go along with what they order, you give consent to what they do. If you don’t want to give consent, you are free not to, but your actions are not guaranteed to be free of consequence. To explain this in a way you may understand better, even a man oppressed by a dictatorship has given consent for that government’s actions so long as he does all that is wishes him to do, and does not protest or raise up against it.
      
      Consent is given not by the words you say, or the thoughts you think, but by the actions you take. You can say you don’t give consent, but so long as you pay taxes and do not organize an effective protest group that can sway enough minds to make a difference on the social consciousness, then you give consent. If that sounds harsh, it’s because it is. I should say here that I don’t think this is a good thing, but it is the way the world is.
      
      “Indeed, a lot more people need to become aware of the violence of the state before we can begin to abolish it. ”
      
      Making people aware of things and increasing their knowledge is always a good thing.
      
      The pessimest in me has to note that I’m not sure that making people aware of it will abolish it. People are, by nature, somewhat violent, and allowing the state to fulfill those
      
      “you are making the same error as a previous poster by wrongfully conflating society with government. ”
      
      I first note the humor in your saying that I’m conflating society with anything, when you earlier claimed that societies didn’t truly exist. (I’ll take this as an error in communication, not an error in your thinking. Seems more likely).
      
      Second, government is influenced by society, and only exists with its consent. If the majority of people in a society choose to actively change their government, then it will be changed, even in dictatorships and other incredibly violent political systems. To say that society and government are completely separate is false. It is true that society and government can have different goals, particularly when the society is fractured and divided about what it wants. This does not change the fact that both influence each other.
      
      In short, while I may assume there is too much connection between the two, you recogonize far, far too little. You seem to assume that governmental rules exist completely independent of the wills of the citizens. (If this is what you think, say so, and in my next post, I’ll say why I think you’re wrong. It may be lengthy, so to save time, I won’t write it here.)
      
      A final note on that; Society creates all of those things that we both agree are part of modern life that we benefit from (Jobs and businesses and schools and whatnot). I think the problem in your argument is that you don’t acknowledge that the government is also a part of this society, one that was created by the will of the citizens of the society, to act as a control on society. You don’t have to find that to be a good thing, but to suggest that it is coercive implies that A. you can accept the benefits of society without accepting the rules put on them and B.
      
      “Jobs, amenities, etc, can and do exist without government. Individuals
      in society come together to provide these things peacefully and
      voluntarily. ”
      
      They CAN exist without governmental. Currently, they don’t. Society has accepted government as a part of doing business. To say that people could choose to not have a government does not mean that a government is illegitimate.
      
      As a side note, and one that I won’t pursue further if you respond to this specific note, I doubt that people really could pursue business peacabely over the long term without governmental influence. They don’t do it with governmental influence and arbitration, so I see no reason why removing a semi-neutral arbitrator would eliminate violence between businesses or individuals. This is a matter which I’m still doing research on (there are lovely psych studies going on in Germany which try to find out how people behave given no rules in a business setting, which they hope to apply to discovering whether or not a completely government-free and mostly violence-free business system is possible. Early results were disappointing, but they’re trying to manipulate variables to see if they can change anything.) The lack of good data is why I will not respond.
      
      “It is not true that government serves the will of the individuals in a
      society because it uses violence to force people to do things against
      their will via laws and regulations. ”
      
      It does not serve each individual. It serves society, or put in another
      way, the majority of indivuals. If one group wants medicare,
      another group wants social security, another wants military spending,
      etc, then combined, they want taxes. An individual may not want to pay.
      And he’s free not to, if he also chooses to not be a part of the society
      that places the requirement on him. That is the key point. Individuals
      are free to choose to not be a part of a society. If they choose to be a
      part of a society, then they do give up freedom, and the will of that
      society is enforced on them. To put it simply, they accept it with their
      actions, even if their mind does not accept it. The use of violence is part of the will of society. They want rules passed and enforced, so they sanction violence on the part of the government so they will not have to do it themselves. If you want to claim that that along makes
      
      The wife analogy means nothing because that is two individuals, not the collective will of many.
      
      The rest of your post goes into a discussion about economics that I find completely irrelevant. It doesn’t matter to the initial argument whether or not the government’s actions are efficient, or even good. The argument was about whether the government was coercive and whether it was unreasonable to not allow individuals to opt out of all governmental control. Whether or not the government does its job well is unimportant to the question of whether or not governmental power is legitimate. I respect that you have a strong opinion on the economic issue, but I am not going to engage you on it. I choose to not divulge my opinion on this, and ask that this not be a part of our future posts. If you think it is really vital to your argument, please explain why next time, because I don’t see it.
      
      P.S. I will look into the book you recommend. So long as we’re recommending books. The first I will recommend is The Social Contract, by Rousseau. His argument that people in society maintain freedom by all agreeing to give up the same amount of natural rights to be part of the society is the basis of the argument I’m using here. On the very good chance that you’ve already read that book, I’ll recommend “Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion” by Gellately. It describes how the consent of many groups, given implicitly instead of explicitly, allowed that government to gain power. It is an example of how consent can be given when citizens choose to take no action.
      
      P.P.S On second thought, I probably won’t respond to whatever you write as a response. This is nothing against you or any arguments you made, but this took more of my time then I would have liked to write, and I don’t have that much time to spare right now. If I get the time, I’ll respond, but it’s going to be very low on my list of priorities right now. If you don’t want to respond to me because I probably won’t respond back, that would be understandable. Have a good day.
  - Anyone
    
    corporations are people, too, my friend
    - Freemarketeer
      
      There’s a big difference between corporations and companies. Companies are the creation of the free market, corporations are the creation of the state.
    - chicken eater
      
      Corporations are people without birth certificates.
    - Anonymous
      
      Corporations are not people until Texas executes one.
    - me
      
      If corporations were people, they would have souls.
  - chibijoshie
    
    Companies either give consumers something they need/want or they die, which is pretty much benefiting them ^^
- Scary_Devil_Monastery
  
  Exactly…and what the OP is saying is not only quite correct but touches on the centre of the entire filesharing debate, namely that what the media industries are after is quite simply to abolish every possible competitor.
  
  And that’s why these companies are lobbying for laws which will in essence render legal online services impossible – see the actions against cyberlockers, even the ones fully DMCA compliant, for examples.
  
  I don’t believe – for a second – that the industry is dumb enough to keep burning money at the current rate on lobby efforts simply because of bittorrenting since they are fully aware filesharing as such doesn’t hurt the business.
  
  Legal competition where they lose their market niche as middlemen, however, is indeed a very potent threat to the current distribution industry.
  
  And that’s why cord-cutting – moving away from the established networks under their control – is one of the new rising threats. It’s simple anti-competitive prqactice, just as we saw from Microsoft, Apple, and AT&T.
- JordanKratz
  
  I cut my Cord around 6 – 8 years ago.
  Never going back to it.
  - Thoreau
    
    The writer’s strike of 2008 sealed the deal for me. I was barely turning on my TV before the strike…. Then never during… and after they came back I found that I didn’t want to bother TV anymore.
    
    Thanks Writer’s Guild of America for showing me how unimportant TV shows are!
  - Joseph
    
    I haven’t cut the cord just yet and pay quite a bit for the service I
    get. I still download all my favorite TV shows via bittorrent though.
    Why? Convenience. I don’t have to keep track of anything or constantly set their PVR to record shows every few days using listings that aren’t always correct. If Hollywood could provide a reasonably priced service
    that tracks my favorite shows for me, where all I have to do is log in
    and click a single link to watch an episode, I’d switch to that
    in a heartbeat. Especially if it gave me the ability to watch any
    episode I want from every TV show ever made. There have been tons of good shows
    from the 60′s onwards, many of which stupidly canceled after only one season, that will never be released
    on DVD nor as reruns. What I don’t want to do? Have to join more than
    one service just to get one tenth of the content that should be
    available to consumers who are more than willing to pay. I’d be willing to pay for movies too, provided they too were reasonably priced and I can watch them at the same time they’re in theaters (which I no longer go to for a ton of reasons).
- RIAAtarded
  
  So true. This is the internet generation, every question you have to ask can be answered by inputting it into google and pages of results are there instantly. Honestly the shear speed we can get information at now is mind boggling and we have been getting it long enough we expect it in all aspects of our lives. That isn’t an unreasonable expectation especially when there are legitimate examples of that available now. Entertainment industry had 1/2 a brain they’d use bit torrent as a delivery system
Goest

true, no question about it. when you think of it, TV will ultimately be THE big loser in this industry transformation that can’t be avoided.
- FreshTuna
  
  Hence the push for Internet-enabled Television devices; maybe so people think of the internet as a one-way medium like T.V.’s are?
http://twitter.com/MAFIAAFire MAFIAAFire

Another reason is the butchering that the channels do to the program.

For example, on a recent trip to India a colleague of ours was watching “Blade” on HBO… and he was pissed!
Because all the good parts were half snipped off!

He had seen the movie before in Europe and since “nothing was on” on TV he decided to watch it again but any scenes where there is even partial nudity, a bit of face bashing,Blade jamming his sword into some vampires guts etc got cut!

We really dont need to be mothered and taken care of so we dont see the whole movie – that too by the channels’ owners.
I have not seen the pirated version/s that are floating on the p2p networks but I bet they don’t have that BS.

(Just a mini rant)
- Anonymous
  
  I’m surprised they haven’t sued the channels yet for editing copyrighted works.
- IndianGuest
  
  I am from India and here all movie channels like HBO, PIX and Star Movies only show heavily edited and censored versions of movies that contain anything remotely sexual starting from partial nudity to mild sexual innuendo. Even the cuss words are silenced and the same words in the subtitles are either modified or censored. Hell most of the Rated R movies are not even shown on TV. I’m talking about censoring PG-13 movies here lol.
  
  That’s the price I guess we pay for living in a prudish society. Even if the consumers don’t complain, broadcasters and I&B Ministry will still heavily censor movies as the government always wants to play Big Brother and thinks it knows what’s best for us.
  
  Surprisingly violence in movies, however gruesome, is never censored. Everybody including 5 year olds are welcome to watch all the violence they want on TV. Go figure.
  This is why I stopped watching movies on TV many years ago. With 10 min commercial breaks after every 20 mins, stretching a 90 min movie to 2.5 hours and that too heavily censored, it just doesn’t cut it anymore to watch movies on TV if you ask me.
ScrewEwe2

I hope Janko Roettgers isn’t that same JankoManko? DinkoDanko¿ dork that keeps spamming TF under all the chaging aliases, cuz if he is, I’ll flag the fucker.
Neotoasty

I’m not 100% convinced that online streaming is reliable, considering that not everyone can afford $50 – $100+ a month for faster connections. The only service I see mainly to have around is definitely Netflix. But sites like Hulu and similar, bleh. I am all for people controlling their own content and how they want to watch it.

We shouldn’t be babied over this stuff.
- ScrewEwe2
  
  I love Netflix. I have both 1 disc at a time home delivery and streaming, and the streaming content plays flawlessly on any device or computer in my home via DSL. I used to use the free Hulu service once in a while via computer(s) before I got a wireless BD player, but it would usually always hang momentarilly here and there. A lot of other streaming content like youTube will also hang here and there occasionally, but Netflix streaming works great and looks great. I’m reticent to switch to cable internet unless I have no choice, because my phone company/ISP is a smaller, mainly rural carrier and I hope I can fly under the radar of CISPA. I’ve been using a VPN for a while now and like to run µTorrent with a free foriegn ssl or socks 4-5 proxy in addition to the VPN’s proxy. Hong Kong has some damn fast proxy servers, and Iceland, Morocco, Brazil etc. are a bit off the beaten path for the VPN. Europe, The US and Canada have too many eyes watching internet and torrent traffic.
  - Ogra
    
    I’d be careful with Brazil. A few of my relatives who live down there have said that they’re beginning to consider cracking down on piracy.
    - Vincent Giannell
      
      I doubt they’re going to do that unless they want to get criticized by those they’re cracking down as a consequence.
    - blah
      
      Somehow, I don’t think that would be a votewinner, unless the media companies start to make their products more widely available there.
  - Death
    
    Netflix is only good until they do not have any of the good anime/tv shows/foreign films that you want to watch; for those, you must fire up your computer and search elsewhere.
    - Derp
      
      There is already enough good free stuff to last you 3 lifetimes of continuous play.
    - Guest
      
      Derp: Not really, not if you like anything esoteric, or, in the case of anime, Japanese voices with subitles, which, last time I used the service, simply didn’t exist on netflix. They also generally don’t have anything terribly current in the way of American television shows, usually only as recent as one or two years ago. And god forbid you want something foreign, it simply isn’t available.
- Lefuu
  
  $50 – $100+ a month for faster connections?
  
  Here in Europe i have a 25mbps with 10 Euros. The most expensive i can get is a 120mbps connection with only 25Euros.
  - Here for the beer
    
    Here in Europe I have a 2mb connection for 30 euros and the fastest i can get is 8mbs for 100 euros. but Netflix isn’t available anyway
    - arahman21
      
      As both of your replies show, STATE YOUR COUNTRY! A country isn’t representative of the whole continent.
Brian

The 1st world is moving toward this type of entertainment consumption as the primary means but it won’t really come to fruition until it can replace even the better aspects of the television. As bad as television can be, it has a more communal aspect than the internet in the sense of physical people actually gathering around to watch it, traditionally speaking. Less so with DVR and so on but it still happens. Also, and more importantly, there’s also a convenience to the television in the instantaneous switching between channels (there’s not much interface to deal with and no worry of servers being down and so on) and the little thrill of stumbling across a great film or series you haven’t seen in a long time or ever and just having the thing on in the background as a source of background noise.
- TC
  
  I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with the communal argument. With a net capable device hooked up to our television , we end up completely neglecting cable. The only reason we have it is that it is provided by the landlord. Cooking something for dinner? Pop on netflix. A few people have the day off? Well where did we leave off on netflix.
  
  As for the convenience episode, forgive me, I find it far more convenient being able to chose one thing to watch, than stumbling about on chanels long enough to miss the beginning of whatever new series you may be talking about. On netflix, the frontpage displays act as advertisement. ‘Oh I wonder what this is, well the blurb looks good, lets give it a watch!’ Rather than that old series being a random chance, I can actually decide to watch a series beginning to end, rather than trying desperately to schedule myself to be at the TV in time for the new episode.
  
  I support the timed schedule for premier releases of streamed content ‘Be one of the first to watch ‘Cross Factor Season two’ premere saturday at nine!’ but If I happen to be busy, or miss the start, I can just wait for the release and not be stressed that I’ll have to figure out when the show is re-running the episode and hope its at a time that works with me.
james

I wish I could have acces to thos services but here in Europe we can still not have acces to them!
- Thommy
  
  Try unblock us. Its a Great Service and works really well in our setup.
  - Derp
    
    Yeah, so then what is the difference with piracy again?
    - PoopTuna
      
      Piracy is taking without permission and delivering to unintended recipients?
      File-Sharing is sharing something that is already available? ???
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John Doe

I really hate it when people like Mr. Janko Roettgers promotes his ebook on amazon to make money. There´s something hypocritical about this, it smells like he´s trying to make some easy money on something most of us know already. Perhaps someone should buy Mr. Roettgers ebook and share it on bittorrent ? I think that Mr. Roettgers will agree, afterall sharing is caring right!
- Anyone
  
  I guess it is too obscure to have found its way into bittorrent so far
  
  and there is nothing wrong with trying to sell the book you’ve written, that’s his right to do
  not sure why you have an issue with that
  - Lofa
    
    We have an issue with it because he’s making money. No one should make money for cultural work. It can be infinitely reproduced, so it’s naturally free, and people should treat it like it’s free. Simple.
    - Derp
      
      What? You don’t like this free article here?
      
      Books are for people that don’t know what the book is about.
      Or for people that want to learn something new.
      
      Now we here on TF are not exactly the audience are we?
      We would be more the subject the book is about…
    - Scary_Devil_Monastery
      
      Err. Was that merely trolling? Of course an author is eligible to promote his books, in whatever way he can. If he does a good job, people will buy it.
      
      However, information, by it’s very nature, is nothing you can enforce payment of. Unlike physical goods there is no guarantee and no way to return the product.
      
      You need to go read up on what Thomas jeffersson stated regarding “intelectual property”. It isn’t that cultural work is “free” – it’s that society can not enforce payment for such without abolishing key freedoms first as a side effect.
    - Lofa
      
      @6c1c4b613ca4e5e4aef0cf027c05c183:disqus
      
      I’m not even sure what you’re trying to say. I never said I didn’t like the article, and I think it should be free, because all of it should be free.
      
      @Scary_Devil_Monastery:disqus
      
      He has the right to try to make money from his books. I do not deny that. I instead argue that he shouldn’t. Anyone who creates anything should be willing to give it away for free. I also argue that people should not buy his book, and that people should not voluntarily pay for anything that can be copied for free.
      
      Cultural work is free. That’s a matter of fact. It can be gotten easily and infinitely for free, therefore it’s free. That’s a simple supply/demand equation. Infinite supply = free good. People may still pay for something that’s naturally free, and that’s their choice, but I argue that they shouldn’t.
      
      It’s a matter of the way we should form society for the future. Eventually we should aim for all intellectual works being available for free, with people only working on them because of their own passion, not for money. In order to do this, we have to start working on it now, by decreasing the monetary incentive for anyone who creates intellectual works. I don’t blame the author for trying to sell his book, but I can still say that’s it something that he shouldn’t be doing, and no one should pay for it, regardless of its quality. It’s the rational decision.
    - Scary_Devil_Monastery
      
      @efa44bf6304a189bc0213eed1a3b5366:disqus
      
      “It’s a matter of the way we should form society for the future. Eventually we should aim for all intellectual works being available for free, with people only working on them because of their own passion, not for money.”
      
      Ah, the utopian ideal. I could argue that what you pay for isn’t the “cultural work” but the conveniences. Even if everyone can download a book, a great many will still want a hardback copy in their bookshelf or to give as a gift. Same applies to any form of media. That’s basically the part of human nature which enabled Paulo Coelho to skyrocket his sales of physical copies with 12 million units by giving it away for free on TPB.
      
      Creating a hardcopy of a physical item does actually involve cost. And that cost is suffered by most consumers due to the fact that it provides convenience.
      
      There may, some day in the future, be a society like that portrayed in “Star Trek” and other fictional works – but we won’t be seeing such a society until we actually have a society which is already capable of providing every last member of the human race on the globe with surplus resources. Suffice to say I doubt that will happen anytime within the next five hundred years…
    - http://zombo.com zarathustra
      
      …Except people will happliy pay for something if they consider it to be of value to them. Free clue: even with all of these ‘evil, thieving pirates’ about, CD, DVD, BR & other music/movie/information formats, sales are up & up each & every year.
      
      Have you see the figures for eBooks sold this year…?
- John Spartan
  
  Ohh piss off rodent.
  It really pisses me off when I see people complaining about another man trying to make a buck. Its a fucking book, he put time and effort into getting the information together, so why the fuck shouldn’t he be allowed to sell it?
  
  Let me guess you also bitch at person at the store where you (*your parents*) buy your groceries. I can see it now… “God created this earth and he put this lettuce here for all his children to enjoy, its wrong to be charging me money for it”
  
  Seriously get a life, and dont speak until you know what ‘having a life’ is.
- Guest
  
  Why exactly is selling a book wrong? File sharers never argued that selling entertainment is wrong. If something is good, it will sell and be successful regardless of file sharing as its the file sharers that give free publicity and make a product known to a wide range of people.
- chibijoshie
  
  As an artist, I find people like you very annoying. I made the work, why can’t I sell it?
  - arahman21
    
    Don’t worry, if your work is good, people will pay for it, even if it’s available for free (just make sure not to overcharge). I can read Gunnerkrigg Court online for free, does that mean I won’t buy the book? HELL NO!
    - Eriken
      
      Not sure about that. I can say that’s I’ve never paid for a game I’ve pirated (even the very good ones). I’ve recommended the games to other people, but when I pirate, I do it to avoid paying. I can’t believe that’s unique among the filesharing community.
    - arahman21
      
      @feb919be6faf39d4f25e31c5da2d3fdf:disqus Don’t worry, that just makes you an asshole. I also pirate stuff, but that’s mainly for stuff that’s unavailable, or not priced fairly. I don’t have issues paying for stuff that’s good and priced fairly.
    - Anyone
      
      if he doesn’t sell it how would people give him money for it?
    - chibijoshie
      
      @feb919be6faf39d4f25e31c5da2d3fdf:disqus And people like you make me want to smash my face into a table. If it’s good enough to recommend to friends, then why is it not good enough to buy?
    - Eriken
      
      @arahman21:disqus
      
      Insults are unnecessary. Just as my personal example doesn’t prove pirates don’t pay, your example doesn’t prove they do. I can tell you that where I live, when people pirate things, they don’t buy them afterwards, because it’s a waste of money.
      
      @f05af58b8c10e93b3595bb996aad4e5d:disqus
      
      The typical answer is donations. They have a donate button and a message pleading for money, and people might give. It works for some people.
      
      @chibijoshie:disqus
      
      It is good enough to buy, but I don’t have to. If I didn’t have access to filesharing, I would have bought those games. I didn’t have to buy them, so I didn’t. It’s literally that simple.
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Cut the cord… do it !

Only have broadband and mobile phone.
Don’t have a telephone landline or cable tv.
I see what video I want, and download it. For some shows I use rss to automatically grab them.
I then create my own playlist. I even have a PC remote to make viewing easier.

I have access to more than just TV.
I download lot’s of online video because my video viewing experience is better and full of unique content not found on commercial TV.
eg… TYT , Keynote speeches , tutorial series etc… all stuff you don’t get on TV.

I am more informed about news because I read sites like this and other news sources. Again more content more accurate unbiased content informs me. When I say unbiased, I mean that it is not news that follows the corporate/government narrative, where press releases are reported as fact and lies are never confronted.

I am a “Cord Cutter” … I am a “Pirate” … my life and knowledge is better for it !
http://rdonch.pip.verisignlabs.com/ SpecLad

Um… what the heck IS cord cutting?
- Ogra
  
  ”These days, it seems like everyone is talking about cord cutting, the
  trend of people ditching their pay TV subscription for online
  alternatives.”
  
  First paragraph of the article.
  - blah
    
    It’s a bit of a silly term really as my broadband comes down the same cable as my TV. I wouldn’t be cutting any cord, just not using one of my available services.
    - but
      
      Your mobile phone must have a long cord on it
http://www.empneusmeno.com Nick Malekos

Here in Cyprus, I would use Spotify if it existed and now I stopped pirating music because Deezer ( a french alternative like Spotify ) is now available, even though it doesn’t have all the music I like.

And I would surely prefer to pay for Hulu instead of downloading movies and shows … or even watch them on their companies’ sites and also watch some advertising … but the people of these industries are too stubborn in the old ways …
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Gear Mentation

Been there done that years ago. I don’t need TV because it doesn’t have what I want half the time, and certainly not when I want it. For example, it doesn’t have all the British shows. This is not a new thing, it’s been going on for years, surely.
Gear Mentation

Lame technology, why can’t you delete your own posts?
Guest

But… piracy!
Krista

My family hasn’t had Cable TV since we moved away from my husbands college (6 years ago) any and all the tv/movies we want to see we watch on Netflix or we buy the ones we really love. I refuse to pay $100 for all the garbage that’s on tv now a days. It’s seems that cable tv is just full of reality tv shit or news which is just broadcasting how many people were killed today in the world. I much rather be watching firefly, Stargate, X-files or many many others that they have on Netflix. If Hulu would get rid of their stupid ads (even if you had to pay for it) I would use Hulu too
- Gear Mentation
  
  Exactly. And, FYI, for the things you can’t get on Netflix, Bittorrent has them, about half an hour after they air on TV.
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Ender-Wiggin/100000885624281 Ender Wiggin
    
    ^^ netflix- 8 dollars a month, BTGUARD account, 8 dollars a month.
    
    netflix for when you just want to flip through channels, or kids cartoons, eztv for new stuff. We’ve got more choice in programming than we’d ever had with cable, anywhere, any time, any device, and a third the price. Saved enough to get faster internet.
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41ancounting

”broadcasters in countries like Germany still think that their audience
would rather listen to horrible dubbing as opposed to the English
original.”
True. I am a 41 year old german, and even I, as an semi-old fart, don´t want to endure dubbed series/movies. Plus: We don´t want to wait! Couple of days ago i learned that True Blood was finally coming to german television. Really? So soon?! ;)
Insanity…
- BlurrTheTechnicolor
  
  sorry to burst your bubble mate but on 13th Street (Universal) True Blood started in May 2009
  and on RTL 2 March 2011 (Free-TV-Premiere)
AWAKEN Hollywood

The problem with U.S. tv is the 20 min commercials every 5 min ……STOP the commercials(they are lame as hell and long as hell) and use product placement instead. and if my cable dvr could stream to all my devices I would still have cable. HELLO make an app ……all i know is my cable company choices are not providing the services i need for my new technology WAKE UP HOLLYWOOD technology has moved past 50 tv ……we crave media for all our new tech toys and a convenient way to get it… IS THIS SO F’ING HARD …..the problem is not piracy but the lack of service to the people!!
Guest

Oh I did this 3 years back and never looked back. I dumped all subscription TV and dumped paying the BBC poll tax. I consume only online media of MY choice. A lot of these subscription channels are moving online slowly. I think in time TV will die off in its current form. Transmission over the web is almost possible now to most western people. Anyone under say 30 is rapidly dumping TV’s. Know body under 30 wants a TV the size of a wall they can’t carry about with them…or headache 3D glasses…or blueray…or satellite TV with big dumb dish on this house…this stuff is going to end up binned….what they want is a MacBook and 24/7 online content at a fair price to select from as they see fit. TV as we know it will be dead in 20 years.
- Patrick Chenier
  
  Give it 10 years and it will probably be dead.
- Eng050599
  
  Not all under 30′s fits into your description. My entertainment setup has no TV service, but does have ” a TV the size of a wall they can’t carry about with them”, 7.1 surround sound (1300W total RMS), with both Blu-Ray and an internet-connected HTPC (4TB storage local, 22TB local server). All of my friends have similar setups. You might be happy consuming your content on a tiny screen, but don’t assume that you represent the average (I know I don’t).
  - Guest
    
    Exactly. TVs still serve their purpose but maybe the Cable TV subscription is on its way out. Its true that people are rapidly dumping Cable and Satellite TV subscription but there is no sign of anyone dumping their TVs because the experience of watching a movie on a large 50″ screen is only second to watching it in the cinemas. You can convert your TV into an HTPC and you can have entertainment at any time according to your convenience.
    
    I am sorry but Tablets and Mobiles, however portable will never replace a TV. Watching anything on a tiny screen at reduced quality just doesn’t cut it for everyone.
- Guest
  
  Nobody wants a MacBook except the MacFags.
- John Spartan
  
  “…
  what they want is a MacBook …”
  um… no.
theonlyone

My household does not have cable TV, just a cable internet hookup. Digital TV reception sucks so I have had netflix for a few months. Torrents fill the missing shows that I can not get with netflix. There are quite a few pay services available for pay on my network connected device. Aero is available only in NY city. Can anyone suggest some sites to get some of the shows that are on cable?
Patrick Chenier

Here’s why I never had and never will have cable. Uncut, free, on-demand tv shows. No more brainwashing and telling you what to watch. I’ll pay for cable, when it becomes an on demand internet service with hd video at a reasonable price. In other words, NEVER!!
Montisaquadeis

My local tv stations have it set up so that you need a tv subscription to be able to view the latest episode of their shows the next day otherwise you have to wait 8 days after the initial airing to be able to watch it online and by that point you are a week behind. Its so annoying. Otherwise I tend to use Slacker for music and the the free side of Hulu. Considering I am a anime junkie as well File hosting sites are a godsend considering you can no longer find the older stuff without it. Not everything has come to dvds or the usa for that matter and importing usally costs an arm and a leg and the dvds normally do not contain english subs if its not ment to be viewed outside of japan so fansubbing is a must in cases like that.
- arahman21
  
  You might want to check out Crunchyroll too, it has quite a nice collection of shows (both recent and ongoing). If you don’t mind the ads, you can watch them for free, or pay a small amount of money to get rid of them.
  - Guest
    
    animeultima.tv is another good one (possibly better, as i found it has at least 1 show that’s not on crunchyroll)
Mad

i cut my cable off 12 years ago..

broadband + selection + whenever i want = WIN
- danielravennest
  
  I used to live out in a very rural area, and used satellite both for internet and TV. But once I moved into town and got fast internet, cable TV was no longer attractive. I don’t even own a TV monitor any more, but I still have a basic cable subscription, because Comcast has a weird price schedule, where basic cable + internet is cheaper than just internet. Doesn’t matter as long as I am not charged extra for it.
Guest

I like my niche media. TV is still ok for the convenience of turning it on and having something to watch instantly but if I had to pick one, I’d pick the internet.
It’s where I get my real entertainment, TV is just the lazy time wasting option.

Not leaving tv anytime soon though, the same company that handles Internet does TV and telephone over here and the triple pack bundle price makes worth having all three services.
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Rokuisbest

Roku has served a good source for internet streaming content and it includes Netflix, Amazon, Sony Crackle, Hulu, and a bunch of indie movies and such. It’s well worth getting a roku and having maybe netflix and amazon as primary service to connect the rest is free.
Spankles

I believe the article left out another major aspect of getting your stuff over the internet instead of getting it through the usual channels:

On bittorrent most of the stuff is advertisment free, with no breaks in the program. No longer do I have to watch tampon and baby diaper ads during a show just because the sponsors figure it’s being screened in a slot that has a high 20-30 something female viewership. Or antidepressant and athritis medications during a late night re-reun of my favorite shows….

Since I started using bittorrent and adblocker I had almost forgotten that advertising still existed until I am disgusted to find that it still exists whenever I watch tv at a friend’s house who has cable.
I want to consume what I want when I want, but I also love the freedom of being advertising free…
ThumbsUpThumbsDown

We should think very seriously about what Cord Cutting means for the Copyright Distribution Monopolies.

Fundamentally, it means customers telling Cable Companies, “No Thanks!”; and, meaning it.

What would it mean for Cable Companies if this Idea of telling the Cable Companies, “No thanks!” caught on?

After all, it would take only one brief minute for a Cable Company Customer to compare what media is made available within his/her Cable package with the diversity, quality, immediacy and convenience of media that’s available everywhere else on the Internet essentially for free; and, it would take only a brief second minute, for that same customer to compare what he pays monthly to the Cable Company with what he would save if he cancelled his cable package and invested his money instead in the fastest possible internet connection.

So, what do Cable Companies See when they look at cord-cutting?

In order to best appreciate this situation you might best imagine the economic essence of a Bank Run: Impaired Banks and Ponzi schemes can exist for decades with little more than an orchestrated set of convenient fictions supporting them. For decades, they can act and appear in every sense as substantial as any solvent counterparty. What distiguishes them, as Banks, or Money Market Funds, or Financial Advisors, is NOT that they lack substance; in fact they can be said, for all practical effects and purposes, to have substance as long as they can effectively support their elaborate fictions. What ultimately WILL distinguish the Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutuals, Morgan Stanleys, Bernie Maedoffs; as successful scams, but ultimately FAILED economic institutions, are the buried truths whose emergence are a litany of broken promises and economic ruin. It is the broad Public declaration of a reality that is NOT compatible with the proclaimed conventional wisdom that starts the rest of the comfortable world running for its life. The resulting FEAR is not merely that there is danger somewhere, but that there is danger everywhere; that fear is not merely fear that there is fraud in one institution, but that there is fraud buried everywhere in the system.

I suggest that you should consider cord cutting as a kind of “Bank run” on Cable companies; but more importantly, as a kind of “bank run” on Monopoly Copyright Distributors in general.

For decades these institutions have abused their customers on the basis of a more or less fraudulant array of fictions at the heart of the Copyright Laws: They have told citizens that corporate control and distribution is the socially responsible management of Intellectual Property. A lie. They have told citizens that that corporate control should exist in perpetuity, without effective reversion to the public domain. Another lie. They have told Democratic Citizens that Corporate Control over Intellectual Property in perpetuity is essentially compatable with the continuation of Constitutional Rights and Civil Liberties. A wretched lie. They have told Customers that they have been and will be treated equitably, receiving the highest possible quality of service at the lowest possible price, Not true.

Cord cutting tells us that today is too long a term for these institutions to have found shelter under such fictions.

Customers are in headlong flight away from the established Corporate Distribution channels for Intellectual Property. That Flight is today only a small stream. Soon it will become a vast unmanaged river.

Why?

Because the lies which underlie the current system of Intellectual Property Distribution can not be maintained forever to the detriment of Customers and Citizens for the benefit of legislatively previleged special interests.
Kitlope

I hate Tv but for current events and watching a live sports game it’s the only reason i have it.
chillinfart

Talk spanish? Here is a partial translation.

Hablas castellano? Dejé una traducción parcial de la nota.

http://chillinfart.lamula.pe/2012/07/16/cortar-el-cordon-i/chillinfart
BenjaminStroud

Believe it or not people live, quite happily, with no cords. No television cords, and no DSL cords. Quite happily!
Animefanx

I am from India , here all sexual things are censored but gore is allowed ! even kids can watch them , and there is no rating system , even PG-13 adults watch it and tell its the worlds best movie !

So i skipped to anime , i watch all R or R+ and have fun .,and Indian government don’t even have clue what is anime lol .
- Ghandi
  
  Oh noez if my kid watches a man and a woman making love, he will be scarred for life and never grow up mentally sound and balanced. He will grow up to be a rapist and a woman beater. The great secret behind India’s 1.3 billion population must be kept secret from my 20 year old Apu at all costs.
  
  (Meanwhile, Apu turns on the TV and starts watching The Human Centipede in all its glory while good ol’ dad comes in and joins the fun.)
- EatTuna
  
  they do now, silly.
Maddane

Come to Denmark, where cord cutting is (almost) impossible.

Since the Danish Radio (DR) changed their public service licenses for TV to Multimedia license.
You have to pay this licens fee of some 2352dkk/year(316€/y)
If you have a device that can receive with more then 256kbps, you have to pay.

And even though a DNS block from the ISPs on TPB, grooveshark etc. is good enough for the Danish courts.
Then I cannot put a DNS block at home (nor request my ISP to do so) to avoid this payment.Where all I can see is old re-runs of danish movies from the 50, english cooking shows and handball/football.
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Cutthecrap

Cord cutting is self defence from mental retardation. Cut the crap – its easy….
harry krishna

i really don’t want to get a vasectomy
John in a box

I cut my cord but i forgot to switch off the electricity first. Now i’m dead : (
- ScrewEwe2
  
  OK, if you’re dead, how are you able post to TF? Unless….. there really is a magic guy in the sky and when we’re dead we go live with him in the sky forever, with all our dead relatives and a bunch of other assholes we didn’t really like when they were alive, but now, since we’re dead, but magically alive in the sky with the magic guy, we’re going to have to put up with all these dickheads (relatives included) forfuckingever? I think you’re just being facetious john in the box.
  
  Lessons learned? Unplug the cord before you cut it and it’s looking more and more like man made god, not the other way around. Boy, those Islamic guys are going to really be pissed when they eventually figure out the’re not going to get 70 virgins when they die and they’ve been wasting a lot of time praying to a magic guy in the sky.
sonofsmog

Cord cutting is for people that don’t watch sports.

I would have cut the cord along time ago since 1) I have an enormous HD antenna that allows me to tune in every over the air channel available in my geographic area; and 2) I am a filthy dirty pirate and have 150Mbps down channel and a premium Usenet provider that basically lets me get any show/movie I want in a few minutes no matter the size.However, I still have a big ol cable bill because ALL professional sports are increasingly exclusively on cable, and I love my Lakers, Dodgers, Monday Night Football, etc.
Raybarg

What is funny and only half related to this post is that any sharing using torrents troughout the planet can be free for end user. If such can be free for end user why there is no paid alternatives which provide same freedom of choice to _buy_ the shared content.

All industries who are fighting against pirates can only admit to their own failure; They failed to provide what end users want for paid service. Content providers can argue whatever they want to argue, but if its possible to provide sharing for free, then they should never had any trouble providing the same sharing with paid service.
Nagra3

A NAGRA 3 hack will be released to the public soon, and everyone will have Dish and Bell again for free.

Get yourself a UHF/VHF antenna in the meantime though, with a good pre-amp, AP8275, and not a CM7777.
- http://www.neonjesus.com/ 20ftJesus
  
  please don’t tease like that. you made the baby jesus cry.
Ahnon

I don’t see why instead of Aereo one would simply not just buy an antenna (no monthly fees). I get over 20 free HD channels over the air using antenna. Aereo simply feeds you free over the air TV to you PC. Unless they offer significantly more channels that I like than my antenna, no point in using this service. Do that for regular cable (e.g., HBO, AMC, FX) then I will be on that like white on rice.
BrokenThinker

TV will die in time.
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Guest

Congress passed a law that said “only one cable company per town” and without competition, they forgot one simple fact:
Full Basic Cable – $12.95 a month
Full Premium Cable – $21.95 a month
So the public will do what it takes to get the fair rate – even if it’s all internet access
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DRuNKeN MaSTeR

“It can take months before U.S. TV shows become available in Europe or
elsewhere, and broadcasters [...] still think that
their audience would rather listen to horrible dubbing as opposed to the
English original. In many cases, the only way to get that new TV show
episode [...] is BitTorrent.”

We’ve been saying this for years. But does the MAFIAA listen? Nooo…
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Cohen

Im Sorry To Say Cord Cutting Sounds Like A Good Idea, When I Was Young And First Heard About Austar I Thought The Idea Was You Pay So That You Skip Adds And Have Access To Content Earlier. But After Finding Out Im Still Paying To See Adds Thats Really Made Me Hate The Concept Of Cable TV Full Stop.
- http://zombo.com zarathustra
  
  Why Are You Capitalising Every Word In Your Composition? Tell Me Your English Teacher’s Name So I Can Go And Give Her A Dry Slap…
changge217

tinyurl.com/cyk9xz2
Desu1

The FCC’s answer is the force bandwidth caps. Obama supports this!
- http://zombo.com zarathustra
  
  Mendacious polititards always try to obfuscate the issue by name-dropping their chosen scapegoat. Your favourite politician is more-than-likely just as guilty of supporting the copywrong twats – yet it’s all Obama’s fault, right? Riiiight…
  
  Have you even read the TF article about ‘Political Prostitution’?
yuji

tinyurl.com/cyk9xz2
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tmc8080

The march of techology stops for noone. Eventually, people will figure out a way to use white space to transmit around the world and create a non-ceullular based network. What will these pitiful last mile companies do then?

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