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By: Prison Break: 2 miljoeen maal gedownload | Computertaal

Prison Break: 2 miljoeen maal gedownload | Computertaal — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:07:34 +0000

[...] nieuwste aflevering van Prison Break die in Amerika uitgezonden werd, werd 2 miljoen maal gedownload. Uit een studie blijkt dat vooral [...]

By: GabeMac

GabeMac — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:03:11 +0000

Excellent Post, and thanks for this analysis. It’s also interesting how people that want to pay for content are still be treated like criminals…
I talked about this post and that on my show today. Thanks!
http://tinyurl.com/42gjjl

By: website design

website design — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:26:49 +0000

All entertainment is on demand now whether the distributors want it to be or not, because that’s what consumers want and expect.

Catch up, guys. We’re going ahead with or without you – you may as well hop on board.

By: hak8or

hak8or — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:44:19 +0000

Poland was mentioned :D

And I use hulu mainly, but torrents are much better then waiting for the show to air, get past all the comercials in the WORST spot they could put them in.

By: Q-tip

Q-tip — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:26:19 +0000

Show tiz ok yaknow check out Black Lagoon anime kool also Top Gear is the stuff also Dog the Bounty Hunter- American Chopper- Monster Garage- Biker Build Off- Milwaukee Iron- Pinks -These are all too kool all state side xecpt top gear torrents to check it

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:42:38 +0000

This just shows that the big networks are waaaay behind the times. They really need to suck it up and change their business models.

I think it would be really smart of Fox/ABC/etc. to just upload their own torrents of their shows, with commercials. People would download them because they’d be seeded by super-fast network servers, and they’d be released sooner than pirated torrents because they don’t have to rip/edit/encode/post like the pirates.

I would gladly download a torrent with commercials if it meant getting it 4 hours faster and I could watch it on my HD projector…

By: s2pid

s2pid — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:27:25 +0000

by way of Nvidia logo/intro.

“The way its meant/gonna be played”

Torrents piss on TV.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:56:40 +0000

@www.eZee.se

NOOB..learn to stream media!I get 1080i streamed wirlessly onto a full HD 7.2 system. And i get it for free…read up on tech dude…

By: Jappy GoHappy

Jappy GoHappy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:43:49 +0000

LOL< Dude I love PRison Break. Its like the best show on TV right now isnt it.

Jappy
http://www.privacy.cz.tc

By: Improbus

Improbus — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:56:57 +0000

Yep, I saw the pre-air episode of Dexter and this season is shaping up to be awesome.

I download copies of all my favorite tv shows from Bittorrent until I can get them on DVD. Bittorrent also comes in handy for downloading BBC stuff.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:41:33 +0000

Season 4 of Prison Break is currently being shown on Tuesdays, one day after (or about 16 hours, idk) the US.
Problem is, you have to have Sky to watch it. A lot do, but then again a lot don’t.. Like me.

By: Insaneboy

Insaneboy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:17:30 +0000

Our TVs here have yet to air the third season of Prison Break and the second of Dexter…
And Stargate Atlantis isnt even airing at all… let alone the fifth season.

By: venuism

venuism — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:00:26 +0000

yeah everyone has to get there fix of American TV, i don’t even notice the difference streaming it to my tele via xbox 360

By: Dereks

Dereks — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:14:11 +0000

Actually Figures are much bigger than those. The show is huuuuge in the xUSSR area. Folks around here download it constantly through local private torrent trackers (that’s because local traffic is considerably cheaper than the global.
Moreover, there are almost like underground torrent-based production studios. Some sites have communities, which translate popular shows right away, as soon as it is release.
There is no need to say that PB’s 4th season is already in Russian and torrent files where downloaded altogether around 30-50k times.

By: YoMomma

YoMomma — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:52:14 +0000

It works the other way around too.
I watch TopGear all the time (well not right now, as it’s in off season (series?), cause of everyone seeding to me from across the pond. :D

It’s kinda stupid how you guys have to wait for our shows, even though there’s no real point (at least change the length of time between when its broadcast in the US, and when its broadcast in Europe to something shorter… jeez)

By: Pirate

Pirate — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:00:32 +0000

Prison Break is one of the worst pieces of sh*t that has ever been on television.

Good thing though it’s not big in the states and will finally be axed after this season.

By: CMG

CMG — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:29:55 +0000

I download them as they’re aired in America regardless of whether they’re coming to the UK, As I did with Reaper.

And WOOP! for Prison Break, it rawks.

By: dPsychc

dPsychc — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:12:37 +0000

The season premiere was awesome

By: EKI

EKI — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:46:43 +0000

the problem with availability is not necessarily that users are impatient, but that every day that passes between the US airing date and the european one, risk of being spoiled in the internet grows higher and higher.

Why should european users be banned from fully enjoying the Lost Experience on the net just because they’re getting the episodes too late?

Also, at least in Spain, TV networks are all but serious. They treat the shows (and thus their audience) like crap. They don’t stick to the schedules (20+ minutes waits!!!), they introduce the ads whenever they want (totally breaking the highly studied narration flow of the episodes), the hiatus they introduce between some episodes are undefined and without any sense of cliffhangers, and they make a 42 minutes show (1 hour in US TV airing) into a 1h20 exhausting experience.

Morover, I have family in France that top these complaints with a fierce censorship. For example, they didn’t aired the 2 very first episodes of House MD just because they cared about the audience not liking the main charcter (WTF!?).

Hence, only way to have a serious way of watching TV and enjoy it as much as it is meant to be, is by using this P2P ways.

By: OP

OP — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:28:55 +0000

Yes, Sky does, but not everybody has/wants/can afford/lives in a flat which can’t receive it/etc. Sky, so therefore BT is the only solution.

You wouldn’t believe how far behind we are with Law & Order too.

And similar note, the likes of Journeyman or Middlemen may never reach here. So you get Top Gear abd Doctor Who and we get your stuff, win win!