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TV Torrents — When Piracy Is Easier Than Purchase

Posted by Zonk on from the wow-guess-i'll-just-not-pay-you-then dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NBC's recent withdrawal from the iTunes store leaves the millions of Apple's customers who have Macs or iPods without a legitimate way to purchase and watch NBC's content. Online media stores such as iTunes, Amazon and Walmart have never been able to compete with the pirates on price, or freedom and flexibility — as the content they sell is typically wrapped in restrictive DRM. The one advantage that legal purchase offered was ease of use. CNET looks into the issue, and discovers that with mature open-source media players such as Miro supporting BitTorrent RSS feeds, it is actually trivially easy for users to subscribe to their favorite shows. Want to wake up to the latest episode of The Colbert Report, Top Gear or any of hundreds of TV shows automatically downloaded and waiting for you? CNET offers an easy three step guide."

9 of 474 comments (clear)

  1. Tor like oatmeals! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Tor like oatmeals!

  2. first? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first?

    please

  3. comma by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Check your grammar, retard.

  4. Ep!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    [samag.3om] in the As 0ne of the

  5. And those without iPods? by PadRacerExtreme · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    customers who have Macs or iPods without a legitimate way to purchase and watch And what about those that don't have iPods (yes, we exist). With only having the stuff on iTunes, I don't have a way to watch it right?
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  6. Re:Fox has there shows online with less ad's then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    'less' should be 'fewer'

  7. Re:Fox has there shows online with less ad's then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How about fewer comments regarding Joe's spelling and grammar.

    There'd be a lot less noise on Slashdot if this were so.

  8. Beauty. by pseudosero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sometimes a Slasdot post just, to me, represents pure Earthly beauty.
    I haven't even read the article (lazy).

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  9. Re:No legitimate way to watch NBCs content? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm aware I'm feeding the troll here, but..

    Are you well? Seriously. Was there any kind of point to all that, Mister or Miss Crowhead, or was it just worthless gibberish? As opposed to worthless gibberish that also has a purpose?