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Time on "Pirates of Primetime"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the polly-wanna-tivo dept.

binarydreams writes "Time has a pretty decent article on the capturing and trading of television shows on the Internet. The author gives a very good description of the capturing process, the people who enjoy the results, the future of PVR (focusing on the Replay 4000) and why the TV and movie industries are scared." This is just more of the TV industry coming to grips with what happened to the music industry. But it's important that the mainstream learns about it.

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  1. Re:Big Pussy? by toupsie · · Score: 5, Funny
    WTF does that mean? Could someone explain to us non-Americans.

    It refers to the expanding waist lines of women that watch too much network television in America. We are getting too fat and that line is just a obscene, negative way to refer to these obese women.

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  2. poor Vdub by Niadh · · Score: 2, Funny

    The article mentioned VirtualDub... It's now only a matter of time before the Television Industry starts to sue Avery Lee for helping to pirate millions of dollars in TV episodes.

  3. Thanks Time magazine by Commienst · · Score: 2, Funny

    I never knew the Kazaa network had Sopranos.

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    I am into the copy and paste.
  4. Just? by tcd004 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "This is just more of the TV industry coming to grips with what happened to
    the music industry. But it's important that the mainstream learns about it."

    Yeah, that music industry thing was no big deal.

    tcd004

  5. Re:Big Pussy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I've got a feeling that they're refering to Jack Valenti, some MPAA bigwig.