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Battlestar Galactica Available for Download
blankgm writes "The SciFi channel has made Episode '33' (Season 1 Episode 1) of Battlestar Galactica available for free, uncut and commercial free, online at SciFi.com. Also available are deleted scenes from the series.
Is this a ploy by the SciFi channel to grow a viewer base as well as loyalty, or an extremely bold move since the series isn't even out on DVD yet? Hopefully it's both. In either case, I believe this is unprecedented, especially since season 1 hasn't even concluded here in the states.
Bravo SciFi. Keep 'em coming!"
Way to go SciFi Channel!
Now just go ahead and buy Enterprise and I will love you!
It is not avaliable for 'download' - it is a streaming Real Media file. Eww.
Will "corporation+internet" ALWAYS = the SUCK?
RealMedia my ass -nothing Real about it.
bah!
Sorry!
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wget STREAM_URL
mplayer `head -n 1 DOWNLOADED_URL`
(The actual stream URL is in the file that the link points to)
But it still does'nt play - I on't know why
Not problem with the codec, only the application. I haven't used it since version 6. I just downloaded version 10 for OS X and it wasn't crappy. Needless to say, now I do use real audio.
Oh Sheesh. Yeah, back in the 90's they were the #1 WORST company to have spyware, crapware, slowware and everything else to jam up your PC.
I think Real 'Real'ized what they were doing wrong, and now have embraced the open-source community by releasing a full-powered player called Helix.
Go try it out sometime, and if you feel vulnerable, go make a linux acct and jail it, whilst running Helix.
Its seriously good. And its the 1'st "legit" way to play MP3's (they paid fraunhouffer MP3 fee so it can be included in pay distros).
Well has anybody ripped and mirrored this yet?
They will probably float. It should be quite impossible to drown in liquid mercury. I am not sure what other side effects may arise ;-)
http://www.dieblinkenlights.com
Battlestar Galactica was a large carrier ship from the first war, as was in the process of a decommisioning celebration when the attack happend. It was the only one that survived as it had resisting having any new computer components especially any networks installed on it, as was the protocol in the first war.
This isn't entirely certain, btw. There were 120 battlestars, and only thirty of them were confirmed destroyed in the war. It's possible that some of the others may have escaped destruction somehow. For example, a few may have been in deep space when the attack happened, heard the reports that the Cylons were somehow "deactivating" all the craft that they encountered, and stayed away from the colonies to avoid destruction. Mostly speculation, of course, but it's not farfetched speculation.
I looked at the resulting stream and it looks like it's not THE stream since it's just a repeating section. Or atleast that's what it looked like in vi.
I've not been able to get either RealPlayer or HelixPlayer to play the original URL even after installing both just now. Their website says rtps is supported in Helix but not Real.
BTW, it really pisses me off we can't purchase channels from the cable monopolies. Paying $25/mon for 2 watchable channels is a rip off IMO.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
33, while story wise important, was a bad episode in my view. The whole show was more annoying than fun to watch. But not all the episodes are like this. They get out of the "law and order" mode of jumping scene to scene with no transition a few episodes later.
The "water" episode is better, but still close to what 33 was, but the few after that get better each one. The average person will hate 33, if they didn't see the miniseries that started the series, Scifi should be streaming those not this one.
Even recording for your own use is a copyright infringement, except that it has been found to be a permissible Fair Use.
Copyright is about restricting the right to copy works of art. Recording telivision shows for home use was judged to NOT infringe on copyright by the supreme court in 1984 (sony vs Universal Studios).
However, if you watch it more than once, that's illegal again.
What? If I have a copy that I legally obtained, where in copyright law does it state that I can't view it multiple times? I believe the supreme court would disagree with you there as well.
Lending a VHS tape to a friend is illegal too.
Unless the lending also involves copying, I believe you're wrong again.
P2P is different in that copying does occur. I have a copy of something, and if I publish it via P2P, I retain my copy, and someone else gets a copy as well.
Judging by the header bytes, they've found a way to deliberately mangle the file such that while RealPlayer can play it, it's a far enough of a deviation from specification that stops others from knowing why.
I have never watched the show. Sorry, have more important things to do.
But, when I saw this article and knowing the reputation of the show I was willing to try since I could transport a file on my laptop or media player.
And what do I get? The aberration of streaming media. No wonder, they are are a TV channel, they still think in broadcasting terms.
The first "TV" company that realizes the potential of giving stuff away for free (unencumbered, without lousy stupid formats) as an enticement for paid for services, will make loads of money and lead the industry during the nes couple of decades.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.