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Apple to Offer Monthly iTunes TV Subscriptions

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the download-your-shows dept.

sg3000 writes "Fans of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, rejoice! Reuters is reporting that Apple will provide monthly subscriptions to two of Comedy Central's most popular shows. One question, as TV shows become available for sale on the Internet, will this make it harder to share clips online, such as through Google Video? In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true."

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  1. Win-win situation by FlyByPC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If prices weren't artificially high, I think a lot of people wouldn't bother pirating clips -- and the whole IP discussion wouldn't be as important. If, for example, you could download songs you liked at $0.10US each, why bother pirating them? Same for video -- let people freely trade small clips (say, 2 minutes or less) legally -- and add a link to the traded file to make it easy to purchase the whole episode for not too much money. Trading small video clips would become *good* for the companies that produce them, as it would get more people interested in the programs.

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  2. Rejoice, consumers! by Urusai · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Another opportunity to make easy monthly payments!

  3. Re:While good - why not unlimited I-Tunes pass by Yahweh+Doesn't+Exist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >Am I the only one thinking this is the first step to subscription music on the IPod

    no, but you seem to be one of the people who are falsely under the impression that "subscription" means rental, which it does not in either the general case or the case of iTunes video passes.

    here "subscription" has its tru meaning, as applied for example to magazines, in that you pay for something in advance (at discount) and receive the product periodically when it is actually published.

    this is not to be confused with BS "subscription" services which take away what you already have when you stop paying.

  4. Re:Misleading title. by freeweed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So in other words, it's EXACTLY like a subscription.

    As opposed to the bullshit newspeak definition of "subscription" we've been hearing lately.

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  5. Re:Sign me up! by Nugget · · Score: 5, Insightful

    iTMS DRM is acceptable because it doesn't impact my usage of the media. I'm quite able to do all the things I expect and want to do with songs and videos I buy from the iTMS. So the DRM is just fine by me.

    How is that a hard concept to grasp? It's a product I want at a fair price that arrives in a form which does everything I expect it to do.