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TV Piracy is Next
Blackfire writes "Why is a TV executive so agitated about online pirates? Because he, like most media
honchos, has seen the scary numbers indicating that the next big craze in illegal file-sharing is
not music, not movies, but television." Frankly I'm amazed that movies caught on before TV since there's so much more TV, and they tend to be smaller files than movies.
Mr. Media Executive? If you're looking for a "major concern," how about the fact that most of the shows suck harder than an industrial vacuum hooked up to a gas turbine?
Have you watched the shit you're shoveling lately? It is awful. Face-down in bubbling warm shit awful. It's enough to make a brave man weep into a PA system.
And then the commercials. Oh great humpity fuck, some of the commercials on television are enough to make someone want to projectile vomit their shoes for a 90-yard touchdown. It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't broadcast at intervals more frequent than a dry-heaving hummingbird. And yes, most of the people watching have already re-financed their house eight times this week.
Try working on the quality, there, Captain Meetings. Maybe then people will actually watch your channel.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
Dude, that comes out to somewhere around 5.50 USD these days. I'll pass!
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It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Since we're all way ahead of the curve here, (let's face it TV shows have been around on P2P networks for ages) let me take this opportunity to announce the Next Big Thing:
Sheet Music piracy.
After all, everything else is being shared already.
Introducing Cleffster a P2P utility written in C# especially for the sharing of scanned sheet music.
(And if that network really exists I'll eat my tinfoil hat.)
So TV executives are scared that we might actually want to burden others with the garbage they vomit daily into our living rooms free of charge anyway.
Well, maybe I'll just stop watching TV. Nothing but crap on anyway.
Dude, I think your spelling has an identity crisis.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
I ignore it. And so does my DVD player.
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EX-NAY on SUPRANOVA-NAY!!!!!!
I'm convinced that the RIAA and MPAA has Slashdot accounts, and just lie in wait... "Oh, look, a cool new technology that vaguely threatens our self-centered view of the world...EXTERMINATE!!!!"
John Maynard Keynes: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?"
Actually, 13ep at 22min is 286min, or 4h46m. Failing math, huh? =)
13 episodes, 22 minutes each --> 286 minutes --> 4 hours 46 minutes
But if you were watching friends it would probably feel like much longer...
AC
I have a friend that agrees with your friend!
260 MINUTES
I don't think I could stand that much Mike Wallace, Morely Safer, and Andy Rooney.
What?