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101 Jan 05, 2008 at 04:55 by Larner

All to say is that, you cant even download the heroes series from the official website even if it has passed on tv, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU EXPECT PEOPLE TO DO? record you HD shows and fucking upload them easy………… now give up for piracy :D

btw i do have all heroes series :D

102 Jan 05, 2008 at 06:01 by super

[quote comment="254110"]This article has been pirated in one of India’s top sites called rediff.com. please check it out guys

http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2008/jan/02sli1.htm/quote
Interesting

103 Jan 05, 2008 at 15:07 by Davezilla

The money I save by not buying CDs goes towards buying more concert tickets to actually support the band. Artists make next to nothing from CDs and end up owing a shitload of money, usually, from their deals. Concerts and merchandise are pretty much the only way to help them out.

As for TV shows, I download them because I don’t want to be stuck at home from 8-10pm every night to watch some TV shows. So I download them and watch them at my leisure. If there were TV shows with commercials in them that LET ME FAST FORWARD/REWIND the show itself, even if the commercials are mandatory, then I’d watch that instead.

104 Jan 07, 2008 at 01:58 by sdjhisdjlkjsdl

[quote comment="254121"]Given that:
* they don’t release episodes til at least a season or so behind the US (e.g. everything on the list)

Hell, I download stuff. Mainly because I don’t watch TV and am not in the USA.

Difference is (with a lot of people reading this) is that I also get the DVDs when they come out. Same with songs: if you like an artist you aren’t helping ‘em by pirating their music and not giving anything back.

Also: to all you people downloading family guy without every buying a DVD: you do realise that DVD sales were the only thing that brought it back. If you want it to survive then don’t just mooch it, buy something occasionally.[/quote]

105 Jan 08, 2008 at 01:18 by Scott

[quote comment="255084"]
I guess it’s like me noticing that a company is pouring toxic waste into my local beach and I sue them for damages as a local resident and then take the money I win and spend it on a vacation in the bahamas.

What does that achieve?[/quote]

I don’t know, nothing? Who cares? I mean, whenever you save money on your weekly grocery bill from coupons or whatnot, do you take the extra savings and buy food for starving children in Africa? No. You probably factor it as money saved on your next computer purchase or vacation to the Bahamas.

You are assuming people are altruistic. We are in fact very greedy, which is OK.

106 Jan 08, 2008 at 13:57 by flashmemory

The problem is they get payed too much.There is always a prospering writer/s willing to get payed tons less than the current writers. If I owned a network I would have at least 3 different shows per time spot rather than the bullshit 1 per time spot. Even filming should pay for itself per one if the other doesnt pick up. I think these writer/actors are morons to bitch about money when they get payed so much for their shows and there are literally thousands of writers who are struggling to get known. Same thing with the music industry. A famous producer or writer wants a massive payout for a song or episode when a prospering artist will settle for 1/4 or even lower payout.

107 Jan 16, 2008 at 18:24 by Anonymous

[quote comment="253878"]It’s kind of odd how people have no idea, but I work for a company that is employed by CBS, and we’re basically in charge of discovering marketing tactics and such, along with their own marketing team. However, our main focus is on digital means as well as doing surveys and such. Anyway, currently television studios, probably all of them, are trying to incorporate online downloading into their game plan. It is difficult to do though, since many advertisers HATE the internet as a way of advertising and they have the most say. People ignore internet ads too much. Offering shows without ads, means no money. Product placement can be incorporated except that it can make things cheesy. We’re currently working on a way to download free shows (no drm) but running a little ad before the download, than in order to download, one must answer a question from the previous commercial to show that they paid attention. People WILL do this because our servers will give 300k/sec downloads and option of 3 quality levels such as MP3player, VCD, and HD. Give us 2 years, and this will be the major way we’re doing business. In fact, there is a company that is designing a set top box which is basically a computer that uses IPTV and has a video on demand service as well as can receive cable from your service providers as well.[/quote]

I sympathize, I really do, but you don’t have two years. You have six months. And selling/leasing me yet another device to cram in my house will not entice me to consume your content. Kudos on no drm, but you have to understand that media companies are designing fractured media delivery systems. One company does one thing, one company does another. Look at TED seminars if you want to see what I IMHO consider to be the best compromise between content and ads (the BMW ones see I was paying attention because I cared so much about the content and the ads were beautiful). If you make quizware, it will fail. Sorry to be your cassandra, but it is not going to work. Anything more annoying/less user friendly than bittorrent and you will fail. Also, we want to be able to get all of our media through ONE interface, not ten different ones. I want to consume my media through miro, or other such aggregators not your program (that will probably require windows anyways, deal breaker). Take these as they are meant constructive criticism. I truly appreciate your efforts to turn the worm on the media/advertiser ecosystem, but it may be a day late and a dollar short.

108 Jan 16, 2008 at 18:38 by Anonymous

[quote comment="254338"]
I think they pursue pirates with great vigor for a few reasons: first, it’s much easier to recoup short-term monetary losses through a lawsuit than to pour money into R&D to develop technology with potentially long-term gains but also very many short and long term risks.

Second reason is that attacking pirates attacks the problem at its source, which is often the most direct way to stop pirating. Unfortunately, the industry needs more preventative measures to stop pirating before it starts, not while its in full swing.

Last reason is that attacking pirates through lawsuits is a scare tactic designed to reduce piracy. Some people think this works, others do not. There are just as many “studies” claiming distribution companies are losing money as there are “studies” claiming distribution companies are making money.

Next, let’s not fault anti-piracy organizations for pursuing their own interests. Everyone pursues their own interests. It’s human nature. If pirates did not pursue their own interests, there would be no piracy.

In the end, what distribution companies are going through is a huge lose-lose for them. I don’t think distribution companies are shying away from using the Internet to bring content to people; in the USA, many channels provide streaming HD content and it’s only a matter of time before they begin to offer downloadable DVDs.

The thing is that no amount of revolutionary distribution technology is going to stop piracy. Ingenious people are always going to find away to crack these softwares in order to provide this content to others for free. People who suggest that suddenly pirates would pay for content if it were available to them in a more accessible medium are way too optimistic. If given a choice between highly accessible at a cost and highly accessible for free, the overwhelming majority will choose highly accessible for free.[/quote]

On the other hand, you are too pessimistic and fail to see that its your distribution systems and are at fault and that a new technology threatens to destroy your entire business model. However, just like previous eras, technological change causes paradigm shifts that are irreversible with consequences that cannot be avoided. The media business model that has endured for the past 60 years (give or take), is DEAD. Get used to the idea. Not because we are morally inferior to generations past, because we refuse to pay fairly for what we consume, but because technology has made the method by which you were paid in the past obsolete. Just as you cannot reverse a rising tide by swimming against it, so too you cannot put the bittorrent genie back in its bottle. Adapt, or someone will do it for you with unwelcome consequences for you.

109 Feb 05, 2008 at 15:59 by Radek

Does someone know why all the subsequent torrents for the DH disappeared after s04e10 from the net. Haven’t been able to find any torrent after the New Year - Pirate Bay, Torrentz.com… And I am hungry ;)).

110 Feb 13, 2008 at 00:21 by Driver

Well I only really download Top Gear online, and the reason I download it is because it isn’t available in the US, even if I had BBC.

I would gladly pay a dollar or two to be able to download it legally (as long as it’s transferable, doesn’t expire, and isn’t in some retarded format)

111 Feb 16, 2008 at 04:23 by KiwiTV

I agree with a lot of the others here. In New Zealand, only the first 2 seasons of Battlestar have been shown. Here we are only a few weeks from beginning Season 4 on US television - how else am I going to see it?(apart from waiting for two years for TV3 or Sky TV to pick it up!) Luckily with the power of the New Zealand dollar, it is quite cost effective to purchase the DVD sets from Amazon and have it imported - or just buy it from the DVD shops here (yes we have all 3 season box sets available in store here now). Come to think of it, how does that impact on local TV networks?

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