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How Battlestar Galactica Killed TV
Don Melanson writes "Following up on the MPAA going after torrent sites, you may be interested in Mindjack's latest feature - Piracy is Good? How Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TV by Mark Pesce. It includes a post-script written in reponse to the recent Torrent site shutdowns." From the article: "While you might assume the SciFi Channel saw a significant drop-off in viewership as a result of this piracy, it appears to have had the reverse effect: the series is so good that the few tens of thousands of people who watched downloaded versions told their friends to tune in on January 14th, and see for themselves. From its premiere, Battlestar Galactica has been the most popular program ever to air on the SciFi Channel, and its audiences have only grown throughout the first series. Piracy made it possible for 'word-of-mouth' to spread about Battlestar Galactica."
"Hey! There is this really good show that just came out! You should download it off bittorrent too!"
Battlestar killed the TV .. star!
"Also, remember any publicity is good publicity." Well, yeah, but would you send your kids to Neverland Ranch to stay with MJ?
We are one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. Back to you with the weather, Bob!
What would have happened if people had downloaded the show, watched it, hated it, and told their friends not to tune in? Viewing figures would be down, and piracy could be held accountable. This sort of result works both ways, folks
What?! And encourage producers to make higher quality programming that people actually WANT to watch!?!? We just can't have that!
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hey!! Where do you buy your tin foil hats? I get them from the guy on 3rd Avenue! You too?
"Lisa, if we don't watch the commercials, it's like we're stealing TV!"
In the Slashdot world it works like...
1. Get high Nelson ratings.
2. Charge more for commercials.
3. Profit!
In the Slashdot world there are plenty of Nelson ratings. Mostly it's geeks sitting on couches, pointing at dumb shows on TV and taunting, "Ha-Ha!". I recently Nelsoned Enterprise, for one.
Unfortunately the rest of world isn't so clever and they have to go by Nielsen ratings.
My God, it's Full of Source!
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Of course I would, I might even be able to sue him for lots of money!
The best possible sign that "Battlestar Galactica" rocks is the fact that a whole genre of internet trolls have sprung up around it.
But instead, you decided to steal it.
He must be an idiot. Why steal it when he could have just downloaded a copy?
If you did that, you'd be stealing. What's so hard to understand about this? Taking something you don't have permission to take, whether it's a real thing or a copy, is stealing. The Bible says thou shalt not steal. If you want to do this, fine, do it. But why do you continue to try to say that it's not wrong? Why do you do that?
but would you send your kids to Neverland Ranch to stay with MJ?
Hell, I want to go to neverland ranch! They got a ferris wheel, llamas AND porn! Sounds like my kind of place.
You can't take the sky from me...
"Hell, I want to go to neverland ranch! They got a ferris wheel, llamas AND porn! Sounds like my kind of place."
Don't forget the freak show. Ok, so they only have one freak, but what a freak eh!?!?
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
I have avoided it, I still have images of Lorne Greene. I keep waiting for Hoss to hop out of a space ship.
The Torrent Incident?!?
I thought I've *seen* all the episodes! Which one is this?
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...and all the male fans of the male Starbuck are, of course, gay.
You... had to... go out with the dog?
I think they DID find a cure. Didn't Picard win the Sexiest Man Alive contest in People Magazine one year? The "cure" for male pattern baldness in the 23rd Century is apparently what it has always been: power, fame, or fortune.
"Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded."
It's not about money, it's about power. The pirates, illegal distributors and downloaders are all part of the Rebel media Alliance. They must be destroyed so that we can bring ORDER to the Galaxy.
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Yeah, it's too bad almost all of the HDTV XviD rips are perfect, then.
Unless it's porn with llamas on a ferris wheel.
Mr. T pitied this fool on 27 July 1992.
The advertisers see you as an untapped market.
Seven was so much hotter.