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Network TV Downloadable Via iTunes

IconBasedIdea writes "Dallas Mavericks owner and opinionated media entrepreneur Mark Cuban blogs about Walt Disney cheese Robert Iger, and his recent deal with iTunes to allow TV episodes to become available for purchase and download. Granted, it was only a matter of time, but someone had to go first, and it is apparently ABC. Could this help niche shows stay alive longer? Will it kill traditional TV ads, long on the downswing of effectiveness? Will we end up eventually paying (or stealing) all of our future programming?"

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fr1st ps0t fuckaz!

  2. Einstein humped his cousin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The truth is Einstein was not a healthy man.

    First off his wife helped him come up with the e=mc^2 theory, yet she received no credit for it.

    In the original publishing of the theory in 1905 she was credited with co-author credits

    Another small piece of Einstein history that few people know is the terms of his divorce from his first wife (The woman mentioned above) was that she received all prize money when he wins a Nobel prize for the theory of relativity. He agreed to this and in fact Einstein never saw any of the money when he won the Nobel prize.


    Einstein awarded Nobel PrizeAfter seven nominations, Albert wins the 1921 medal for physics. He gives the prize money to Mileva, per their 1919 divorce agreement. It is the smallest cash award since the Nobel Prize was created, worth about $348,000 (in 2003 USD).


    Sorry, I can't link to it but it is in the PBS timeline.

    The kicker is that after his divorce from the woman who helped make him famous, the guy married his cousin. Yup, his COUSIN!!!!

    cousin fucker

    So there you have it folks, the man so many think of as a symbol of modern science not only stole ideas (or at the very least refused to acknowledge getting help) from his wife but also decided that it would be fun to screw his cousin.

  3. Re:CABLE WILL HAVE NO ADS BECAUSE YOU PAY FOR IT!! by jellomizer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod Parent Up! Extreamly Insightful.

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  4. Re:Water is free but they bottle & charge for by goombah99 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since when is water free? Not the kind you drink in town. Maybe if you ladel some out of the mississippi. Even well water is not free--you bought it when you bought the land. the only free water is rain.

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  5. episode previews by minus_273 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    anyone else unable to watch episode previews in itunes? Jobs seemed to do it really easily all i get is a brief freeze in the application then nothing.

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  6. Re:CABLE WILL HAVE NO ADS BECAUSE YOU PAY FOR IT!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Looks like there's a moderator around who's as stupid as you are.