Comments on: CBS Blackout Triggers Surge in TV-Show Piracy

By: stantheman

stantheman — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 01:31:00 +0000

OTA digital high-def is not mpeg2, it is mpeg4 avc.

By: Verizon Fios Woos CBS Staff To Drop Time Warner Cable - One World News

Verizon Fios Woos CBS Staff To Drop Time Warner Cable - One World News — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 01:20:19 +0000

[...] get it at whatever cost. A week after its blackout, it was reported that TV piracy was on the rise. According to TorrentFreak, piracy rates for popular show Under The Dome increased by 34 percent. We can only imagine what [...]

By: Verizon Fios Woos CBS Staff To Drop Time Warner Cable

Verizon Fios Woos CBS Staff To Drop Time Warner Cable — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:54:16 +0000

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 11:21:00 +0000

dome:
Noun
- A rounded vault forming the roof of a building or structure, typically with a circular base.
Verb
- Cover with or shape as a dome: “a domed stadium”.

sphere:
Noun
- A round solid figure, or its surface, with every point on its surface equidistant from its center.
- An object having this shape; a ball or globe.

So you provide (assuming accurate) information, a commenter asks a legitimate question (with questionable but humorous stereotype) and you follow with an ad hominem?

Fans surely are fanatical.

(@Throbber: I am American but I had to respond with “I know right?” :D )

By: No One Has Much Influence in the CBS-Time Warner Cable Battle | NEWS.GNOM.ES

Sat, 17 Aug 2013 00:21:00 +0000

[...] higher without the blackout. (It appears that one of CBS’s top shows, Under the Dome, is being pirated more in the past two weeks than it was before, according to Torrent Freak, which reports on file sharing [...]

By: Trespass22

Trespass22 — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 21:41:00 +0000

I would love to move there! It sounds like a really cool country to live in. The language seems hard to learn though…

By: pickaname

pickaname — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 21:14:00 +0000

No, most ISP’s in the world do not have bandwidth caps. American broadband costomers are screwed over :)

Here in Sweden you can get 100/100 for ~$35/month, uncapped.

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twenty five – What Had Happened Was #25 | grumpyhawk collective — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:35:39 +0000

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By: M.I. Summerset

M.I. Summerset — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:35:00 +0000

I’m wondering how many of these people tried to get the signal off-air. For the most part, US off-air is pretty good.

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Wed, 14 Aug 2013 20:27:37 +0000

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