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What do you people think?

No way! TV and Tv shows sucks.Just stop downloading the shows.

Ads make a product worse – the TV show sponsored torrents will lose to the better ad-free fan torrents.

What could work is easy micropayments or microsubscriptions – subscribe for a minimum of 1 dollar / episode on the official site of a TV show, and you get access to their faster seeded tracker, mail notification when a new episode is out, and the knowledge that you support the series.

Offer different subsciption rates, allow people to subscibe for more than 1 dollar if they want to show stronger support, and give some goodies at some thresholds, e.g. keychain at $5/episode, T-shirt and DVD:s at $20/episode, etc.

Another possibility, allow watchers to vote for alternative plot developments, or which character to follow in next episode, and such, with text messages that you charge a few dollars for.

This way a TV show would not depend only on the opinion of a few TV company executives to survive, instead it would get direct support from its fan base (e.g. Firefly could still be alive with this kind of business model).

Check out the preair of Fringe when you get a chance. It will definately a big show. Done by J.J. Abrams – the creater of Lost and Alias.
The show.. IMO is a cross between Alias and the X-Files. I don’t know if it was a deliberate leak to gauge up and comming populatity – but who knows.

I am kind of surprised it did not make the top 10 TF tv list as it was released around the same time as the other preairs and it was huge on our site. Internal reviews – Reviewing all the up and comming shows are giving it an A-

>I’m sure most people would just download the official one and skip the commercials when they come up if they want. There will be a minority of people who will wait for the inevitable commercial-free version, but they won’t be the majority. Most people are more impatient than that.

My suggestion is, you could download the latest episode with ads and lower grade of quality or you could wait a month or two for the ad free version.

Think about it, here comes the time for TV revolution.

My biggest problem with Ads is that 99% of ads are for products I’m not interested in. If I had to register to download my tvs shows for free and legit I would. I would maybe have to enter in my top 10 interests and they could insert commercials for me specifically.

Ads for video games, cars, or whatever. I might even watch them! Not ads for tampons or dish washer soap :)

Of course I live in Canada. Here they like to delay shows. They delayed BSG season2 by over 6 months from the American channels! Idiots. Also we don’t have access to good shows because we have Canadian content laws. Which basically means we have to watch crap Canadian shows before we are “allowed” to watch American ones. UGH.

I also got sick of paying over $100 a month just to watch 5 shows….

Oh. God. No.

Keep the adverts in their own little timeslot at the beginning, end or the middle of the show, whatever, I might even watch them if it’s too short a break to be worth my while jumping out of full-screen view to fast forward.

But keep them right the fuck out of the show. I’m fucking sick of all the stuff that overlays the picture in US shows. I download Lost, and get “WATCH THIS OTHER SHOW AT 10″ plastered across the bottom of the show for half the time.

It’s nothing besides obnoxious, I don’t mind adverts when they know their place and stay out of the way, when they interfere with my watching they can go die in a fire.

You forgot to mention that you’ve never used Microsoft Windows before and never will; just linux. :D