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The special thing is basically not being able to legally view shows when they first air overseas. Services like itunes are forced to put geo restrictions on thi
by robryan 17y ago
The special thing is basically not being able to legally view shows when they first air overseas. Services like itunes are forced to put geo restrictions on things because of the local rights holders I'd imagine. Regularly these shows could air months later, if there intermittently within a few weeks the TV networks seem pretty impressed with themselves.
There have been times in the past where I have attempted to pay for shows and this restriction prevented me.
- froo 17y ago>There have been times in the past where I have attempted to pay for shows and this restriction prevented me. Exactly, I've got no problems paying for content. In my case, I pay for music off iTunes, I prefer to watch movies in the cinema when they come out, but I regularly download television episodes off Bitorrent. It's not that I don't want to pay for TV shows (I have pay tv etc), I simply just cannot get my hands on them in any kind of reasonable time frame... often 6+ months after they air elsewhere, sometimes up to a year. When we live in a world where I chat to people on the other side of the world as often and easily as I do my next door neighbour and I'm unable to keep up with conversations about shows due to licensing deals, of course I'm going to attempt to download them off p2p networks. Rights holders can bitch all they want, but in reality, they can't expect people to pay for something they're not offering for sale.