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The author is simply wrong. You can get episodes for Fox shows on Fox's website & episodes appear for free on Hulu as well. I've watched other Fox shows on my c
by dfxm12 15y ago
The author is simply wrong. You can get episodes for Fox shows on Fox's website & episodes appear for free on Hulu as well. I've watched other Fox shows on my cable's "On Demand" feature, so maybe The Simpsons is on that too. That's three other ways to watch The Simpsons legally.
I agree the letter of the law can be silly & content owners tend to cling to old business models rather than innovate, but please give credit where credit is due. Fox & others are making programming available to us via different methods.
- lisper 15y ago(NOTE: I am the author.) I did try to get the episode from the Fox site. (I watch South Park on line this way all the time.) It didn't work. I also tried -- successfully -- the get it from iTunes. It cost me $6 (because I somehow accidentally downloaded it twice). But then IT WOULDN"T PLAY because my display is a DVI display and not an HDMI display!
- lusr 15y agoHmmm did you try watching one? I tried watching a Simpsons episode on the Fox site. Site took ages to load. Eventually there was a weird selection of random full episodes (6). When I clicked on the latest one, it took a while to load again and then went nowhere. Maybe it's because I live in South Africa? Either way, we have satellite TV showing The Simpsons as well as PVRs here so it's pretty much the same situation as described in the article - far simpler for the average person to just google 'Simpsons SxEyy torrent' than to go the "legitimate" route to exactly the same bits. (Not that I own a TV or watch series, but in theory.)