TV Torrents — When Piracy Is Easier Than Purchase 474
An anonymous reader writes "NBC's recent withdrawal from the iTunes store leaves the millions of Apple's customers who have Macs or iPods without a legitimate way to purchase and watch NBC's content. Online media stores such as iTunes, Amazon and Walmart have never been able to compete with the pirates on price, or freedom and flexibility — as the content they sell is typically wrapped in restrictive DRM. The one advantage that legal purchase offered was ease of use. CNET looks into the issue, and discovers that with mature open-source media players such as Miro supporting BitTorrent RSS feeds, it is actually trivially easy for users to subscribe to their favorite shows. Want to wake up to the latest episode of The Colbert Report, Top Gear or any of hundreds of TV shows automatically downloaded and waiting for you? CNET offers an easy three step guide."
Tonight at 11 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Zonk (Score:5, Funny)
Ok - I just checked on him, and everything looks fine. His water bowl is full, he's got a fresh copy of Roget's Thesaurus and he's dressed in his "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" pyjamas. Am I missing something?
Dehydrated grape bricks (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Usenet rules! (Score:5, Funny)
Usenet? What is this Usenet? There is no Usenet. You do not talk about Usenet.
The truth of the matter is, kids, that newsgroups are old-fashioned, slow, full of spam, and incredibly fiddly to use at all. And nobody really does any more because we're all Web 2.0 nowadays. Don't bother with it. Go back to thepiratebay. Nothing for you to see here. Nope. Nothing. Really.
Re:Usenet rules! (Score:4, Funny)
Exactly. The #1 rule of Usenet is YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT USENET.
Re:Fox has there shows online with less ad's then (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So, are you saying that (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Fox has there shows online with less ad's then (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Tonight at 11 (Score:2, Funny)
I'll watch the torrent in the morning.
Re:No legitimate way to watch NBCs content? (Score:2, Funny)