On top of that, I cannot keep to a regular schedule in order to watch television at fixed times.

I would much prefer for companies to start releasing television series’ seasons at the BEGINNING of the season rather then at the end for us to purchase. It’s usually all been filmed anyway.

The show ‘LOST’ gives a great example of invested time going to waste on a phony mystery answered with convoluted talk boiling down to what was essentially ‘magic’ as the big answer to everything.

I was glad to avoid such a waste of time while my peers were not as lucky.

We are a society that wants our entertainment whenever, wherever, and NOW more than ever before. 

Broadcasters are fighting this as their previous model was maximized for profit at the expense of our comfort.

The internet has arrived and so to the old system I say goodbye with a feeling of relief more than anything except for, perhaps, Schadenfreude.

I will not waste my time watching commercials or dedicate 2 hours of life every Monday for 8 months watching TV.

The internet has even provided the much needed, and previously suppressed, quality control for the useless products offered in commercials anyway AND exposed their methods of subtle coercion for the malicious charlatanry that is. ESPECIALLY regarding children to whom Coca Cola and Disney World have become akin to the Holy Grail and Promised Land respectively.

The illegality stems from the loss of profit and theft of property which is true and cannot be refuted. However, for the stubborn market not to change regarding these influences from the public for the sake of MAINTAINING these profit levels is and has resulted in an inverse reaction whereby their attempts to retain profits only reduce profit.

Broadcasting is doomed to lose money, shrink in power and face the reality that they have been marginalized by a greater source and distributor of entertainment. They must also face the fact that their profits will peek sooner, rather than later, then decline until it is terminated.

Such is the way of progress.

The Showtime movie channel on pay TV provider Foxtel licenses the show from HBO (neither HBO nor HBO Go are available downunder), and although we have to wait a week for the new episode to air, it is available in iTunes within a day of that airing. In the States, they won’t release it in iTunes until the DVD/Blu-ray release, which is insane.

This means that I now have both Seasons 1 & 2 in iTunes and ready to watch legally whenever I want, and the US market has to wait until March or April 2013 to have the same.

Crazy.