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Grand Tour 'Most Illegally Downloaded TV Show In History' (theguardian.com)
Jeremy Clarkson's new motoring show has become the most illegally downloaded television programme in history, figures suggest. Amazon paid a reported $160 million for three series of The Grand Tour, which stars former Top Gear presenters Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, after Clarkson was sacked by the BBC in March 2015. From a report on The Guardian: But figures from Muso, data analysts of the piracy market, suggest unprecedented numbers of people are avoiding paying $90 a year to sign up for Amazon's online streaming service, Amazon Prime, and instead downloading the show illegally. The data, shared with the Mail on Sunday, suggests the first episode was downloaded illegally 7.9m times, the second 6.4m times and the third 4.6m times. British viewers made up the largest percentage (13.7%) of the total number of illegal downloads.
Morality has gone down the tubes.
People inviting friends over to watch television, and not compensating the content creators.
People using sling, and other illegal "time shifters" to avoid paying compensation.
People inviting other people to watch their streaming content, and not compensating the content creators.
People sharing their netfix passwords with other people, and depriving people of compensation.
People "archiving" and "ripping" CDs, instead of purchasing multiple copies, people are not getting compensated.
Look in the mirror to find out the reason the economy is down the tubes, dirty pirates.
What if you watch it at a friend's house.. does that count?
You really should be paying for even thinking about it.
There is no way for them to know how many times something was downloaded or pirated. This is more of the same crap the RIAA/MPAA used in the US to try to convince politicians they were losing insane amounts of money. These figures are completely fictional and this article is a joke.
I wouldn't bother... it's not that good anyway. First episode showed promise, but since then it just feels very wooden and overly scripted.
I know Top Gear was always scripted and fake, but the new Amazon version of it with Clarkson, et al. just seems way over-rehearsed and wooden. I was really looking forwards to it but feel majorly let down.
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... given his best mate AA Gill died of cancer the other day.
The 2nd episode felt overly scripted, but the 3rd and 4th felt more like Top Gear was. We were laughing through the entire episodes (though they can probably just get rid of the joke of killing off celebrities every episode).
AFAIK Prime Video is only available in United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Austria. Leaving much of the world without a way to watch the new show. I don't consider it an excuse to pirate it, but i can certainly understand why so many would download it illegally when they have no legal means of acquiring it. Prime Video used to be in the nordic countries but was close in 2014 for unknown reasons (probably not that popular). I hope Amazon can see a potential in this widespread piracy and start offering it through legal means to more people. It worked for HBO with GOT in the nordic countries when they started offering their content through "HBO Nordic".
I always thought that laws were binary. Either you are breaking a law or your aren't. How can something be more illegal than something else?
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I might piss off some people, but I am a prime member, and have no interest in this show whatsoever. I never even used Amazon video.
To be completely fair, I think I'd rather pirate the content than steam it from Amazon. I am not really fond of DRM, and I like to be able to do whatever I want with content I pay for.
Maybe the solution here would be to offer Amazon videos separately from the prime membership? Make it cheaper for people who don't want one of the two functionalities, and offer a combined discount to those who want both. That said, there is probably a reason (good or not, but well-thought in any case) behind the current offering.
I haven't watched the show, even though I guess I could because I have Amazon Prime, It's interesting to me that 1.5 million downloaded the first episode and didn't want to download the second. Then almost 2 million more downloaded the first 2 episodes and didn't want to download the third. Is this version of the show much worse than the series that was so successful?
Your argument would make sense if watching Grand Tour was the *only* thing you could do with a Prime subscription. But it's not, so I have no idea what you're even rambling about.
Dunno why. It's someone tossed all the worst bits of the old Top Gear into a concrete mixer with a tonne of Jeff Bezos' pension fund. The episode with the sci-fi style reboot army thing was just embarassing. And I say that as someone who liked the old Top Gear.
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It's not the same without Chris Evans.
$90/year for one season of a show? Yeah, I'd download that too, if I was at all interested in it.
I doubt it.
This is what they get for making it exclusive when they have infrastructure in place to let people pay/download by the episode.
It's not shouty enough.
The 2nd episode was just plain bad... 3rd and 4th are showing promise again. Hammond in the Challenger had me laughing so much! And yes, the killing celebrities bit got old in the 1st episode and is just stupid. We get it already.
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I liked the second episode.
But then again, I never liked star in a reasonably priced car, or the reviews of cars - just skipped them.
I'm looking forward to the next one with the hamster being airlifted.
And I paid up for amazon prime just for the show, and immediately benefited by getting free shipping and low cost same day delivery for a couple of things I ordered.
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They've promised to have it available in over 200 countries soon,
I thought that had already kicked in as they announced it two weeks ago.?
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I wouldn't bother... it's not that good anyway. First episode showed promise, but since then it just feels very wooden and overly scripted.
I know Top Gear was always scripted and fake, but the new Amazon version of it with Clarkson, et al. just seems way over-rehearsed and wooden. I was really looking forwards to it but feel majorly let down.
Are you sure you're not referring to Top Gear USA or the post-Clarkson Top Gear?
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Hammond in the Challenger just seemed too much like a badly scripted, badly acted sitcom. None of their reactions seemed genuine.
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Their argument still makes sense because Amazon can rent/sell TV episodes already with their Amazon Video system. They refuse to and made it exclusive.
All the above, and Grand Tour.
Seems the formula is harder to replicate than many people thought.
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Well, instead of paying for 10 - 10.00 a month subscriptions to watch what you want commercial free, you can instead pay 200 bucks a month for hundreds of ad infested channels spewing tons of unwatchable crap.
it's called cable television!
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Maybe the solution here would be to offer Amazon videos separately from the prime membership? Make it cheaper for people who don't want one of the two functionalities, and offer a combined discount to those who want both. That said, there is probably a reason (good or not, but well-thought in any case) behind the current offering.
They sort of do that already. Its called Amazon Prime Video and you can pay for it monthly (£5.99 pm in the UK). Its not really a saving if you pay for the full year, but you can cancel at anytime. I'm pretty sure they also offer a 30 day free trial, so for those that care just wait until the whole season is online then sign up for that.
Haven't seen it yet, but I have high hopes for it.
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I find using prime to be a pain in the ass. In order for me to easily view prime I need to open it on my phone and then airplay it to my TV. The fact that they refuse to support non amazon set top boxes for their streaming service makes it much more difficult. I have prime for the shipping advantages and im not going to get rid of it or anything but I rarely use the video at all because of how hard it is for me to get and buying a fire stick or some other device just to stream the few shows they offer just doesn't make any sense.
I haven't pirated this show, but I might consider it just to make viewing easier, despite having already paid. Thats a bad thing.
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Out of all the episodes so for - the second one is the only one I've watched more than 5 times.
Unless you count the intro for the first episode, that one I watch quite often.
I look forward to my Thursday evenings now , just happy that the orangutan and his two bollocks will be online.
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Streams just fine on my Roku
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I found the fourth episode really dull and contrived.
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I use a Roku box in one room and a TV that has Roku's software integrated in another and have had no problems with Amazon Prime. Are you using an Apple device? Apple has a habit of not playing nice with others.
I missed the first two and watched the 3rd with some friends. I think the only spontaneous moment in the whole episode was the bloke in the audience shouting out "Brown Aston" in response to something Clarkson said. Nothing really amused me*, the constant repeating of Hammond doing doughnuts & reving in tunnels and May's "nervous tick". The cinematography was stunning, but it could have been filmed in literally any country - they have this huge budget and did nothing (apart from a small opera bit) that could only have been done in Italy.
Sure, the old one (which I really enjoyed) was scripted, but at least you could let yourself believe it was happening, not this one. I had a quick search to see how it was received and it was "the best so far" - which didn't really persuade me to watch regularly.
Maybe they'll find their mojo again...
* The house bit was funny, but still seemed very wooden.
I bought a bottle of wine with me. Is that ok?
That's interesting, I myself, wouldn't ever consider shelling out $99/yr or whatever it is, just for one show to watch.
But I have been an amazon Prime member for many years, likely almost as long as the program has been offered. I like the 2-day shipping, and the Amazon Radio and Prime video offerings and free ebooks, etc they offer are nice perks.
I watch some Amazon Prime videos, but I find their offerings pale in comparison to Netflix, which itself is falling far behind what it used to be.
I order a LOT of stuff from Amazon. Heck, most everything I buy for others for Xmas, will be bought and delivered by Amazon. I find more and more, almost anything I buy is online and most of it is from Amazon, so the Prime part is important for me.
My only hope is, that Amazon doesn't ever open a distribution or other brick and mortar physical presence in my state, and force me to start paying sales tax for purchases from them.
At that point, I'm guessing I'll be buying less and less from Amazon. Convenience is one nice thing, but sales tax free is a BIG one too at this point, especially on large ticket items.
That's nearly 10% savings where I live.
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I actually found the last season of Top Gear with Clarkeson was almost phoned in.
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it's fucking smooth as silk compared to plank of wood "leblank" and "evans"
fuck knows why BBC kept "leblank" he was just as shit as "evans"
Fuck knows what you think quotation marks are for.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Streams just fine from my Xbox One.
I am not sure Amazon is unhappy with the current situation. The word that used to apply to a program like the Grand Tour is 'traffic builder': it causes people to join, to enter, to get a subscription. Once they are in they can buy other things. So how many subscriptions has Amazon gotten out of TGT already? That number is what they're interested in. The illegal/indirect viewers are interesting because these are a potential extra source of income.
Noone is forcing you to. Just plug in some old rabbit ears to the back of your TV, and get all the free TV you want. Of course, you'll miss out on the shows like Game of Thrones, Vikings, Orange is the new Black, Wentworth, etc that are exclusives, but you can always just subscribe to one service, watch what they have, then cancel and switch to another, rotating every few months. You'll get them all, eventually, if a year or two after they air.
I order a LOT of stuff from Amazon. Heck, most everything I buy for others for Xmas, will be bought and delivered by Amazon. I find more and more, almost anything I buy is online and most of it is from Amazon, so the Prime part is important for me.
My only hope is, that Amazon doesn't ever open a distribution or other brick and mortar physical presence in my state, and force me to start paying sales tax for purchases from them.
So you support the Walmart of the web? I buy as little as possible from Amazon, preferring to go so far as when I do find something on Amazon to seek out that vendor's (or a competitor's) web site and purchase direct from them.
And I was under the impression that Amazon taxed everyone at this point? Maybe not yet?
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
I bought a bottle of wine with me. Is that ok?
As long as you've paid the multiple drinkers fee.
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These are not "illegal downloads." Downloading isn't illegal. *Sharing* and distributing it is (in some jurisdictions). The are also failing to account for those of us who have Amazon Prime subscriptions, but CANNOT VIEW the show because Amazon refuses to make their proprietary player available on Android TV. Amazon is the real criminal here.
Well, instead of paying for 10 - 10.00 a month subscriptions to watch what you want commercial free, you can instead pay 200 bucks a month for hundreds of ad infested channels spewing tons of unwatchable crap.
it's called cable television!
Or you can just go to tpb and get the pick of the worldwide crop for free.
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Perhaps, but maybe I just identified with his giggling grins lighting up the back tires...
Yes it's an anecdote! Were you expecting original research in a Slashdot comment?
How can you watch that stupid special ops crap more than once? Heck I couldn't even stomach it the first time. I skipped over after they ran the same joke way past the punchline. To quote Monty Python, "GET ON WITH IT!!!"
Yes it's an anecdote! Were you expecting original research in a Slashdot comment?
unless you are younger than 14, lower your hopes.
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So what else am I supposed to do? There are features missing from Prime in Canada and this is one of them.
I do appreciate the way they are touting it as a global show, different country each week and all that, but apparently unless you actually live in the US you can go fuck yourself.
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I have prime video but, amazon has no app for my prefered TV watching device (4th gen apple tv). If I didn't end up watching at my dads house on his roku, I would have torrented it.
Huh. So if you visit the UK, you won't be given access to Amazon Prime Video, despite that it's available in the UK?
Cause I find it amusing. And I laugh when they smack jezzer in the head with a shovel.
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My only hope is, that Amazon doesn't ever open a distribution or other brick and mortar physical presence in my state, and force me to start paying sales tax for purchases from them.
Don't hold your breath. Utah just negotiated a deal with Amazon to voluntarily collect sales taxes for the state even through Amazon does not have a physical presence in Utah. In return, Amazon gets to keep 1.31% of taxes collected (with allowances of up to 18% according to the law).
With $29 million unpaid sales taxes for Amazon sales to Utah in 2015, that's $400,000 of free money for Amazon. This kind of deal will spread like wildfire to other states.
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To me it doesn't feel like Top Gear was.
Recently someone here described the formula as: You have 3 guys, of which 2 are constantly forming a team to play on the third person. They are switching teams continuously, so each of the 3 is 2/3 of the time part of the winning team.
The cars are just dressing on the cake of this dynamics between the 3 guys.
In the new episodes they changed it to American style, probably under pressure from Amazon. Jeremy Clark plays the role of the winner, James May has the loser role. Richard Hammond is supporting for the winner. It is very much an American TV cliche.
They destroyed the dynamics that there was, and thus the show. We will see how it lasts, but it has definitely changed.
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Agreed. I know they've set up Hammond as "the American" on the team, what with his penchant for muscle cars and dislike of snails, but this was going way too far into absurdity. It was a harsh caricature lacking any sincerity and was just unnecessary and embarrassing.
I really hope they hit their stride, but so far I'm not sure they will. The celebrity killing bit should have ended after the first episode and the new Stig who is definitely not the Stig is neither funny nor clever. Most of the show comes across as trying too hard to be Top Gear while also being very clear that they are not Top Gear. They should have kept the format, changed names were required, and carried on.
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I don't want to sign up to ten difference services so I can watch one series/sport on each one of them.
Then... don't?
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Was just going to binge watch at some point at the rels, but there is no way in heck I'm paying $100 for that.
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By and large, they have better content than Netflix as well. It's ruined by a godawful UI and mixing in paid shows with the free ones.
If Amazon cleaned up their UI I would drop Netflix. As it is, if I weren't getting Prime from my wife's .edu account, I'd be more likely to drop Prime despite the better content.
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I'll agree with you. ep2 was as described -- and I was worried that ep2 was going to set precedence for what future episodes were like. ep4 seemed let Capt Slow go off and be his own (so far he's really been odd-man-out with Jeremy and Hammond leading the show). The show has gone from from Improvised "Curb your Enthusiasm" to Scripted "Stand here on this mark and read your lines." And TGT is somewhere in between- still waiting for them to be set free. But hey - they are writing this right?! Needs more off-script moments - between the lines - don't follow the actual lines. Get us from Point A to Z in any manner desired.
I seem to remember though that TG was illegally downloaded too. It's how I came across the show - on youtube. They even mentioned this "fact" several seasons back. Gosh that was a while ago back when youtube limited content to 15 minutes - so I watched Bolivia Special as Part 1, 2, 3, 4, (and possibly 5 & 6.)
Since nobody drives cars anymore - they should have an Uber edition where they review cars for those few who do drive them.
The Grand Tour / Top Gear Two = TGT ? Coincidence ?!
After all there is no legal way to watch that show without giving away our basic freedoms of "Privaccy and Integrity of Information processing systems" as declared by the German constitutional court in 2008.
Offer it as a DRM-free downloadable copy and people will buy it in hordes.
GT's OK but is too much like the latest seasons of Top Gear with its over-the-top attitude. Seems like the seasons 5-12 will never come back. Damn shame.
Personally I'd like to see more James May's projects, maybe new season of the Cars of the People, or the Man Lab (boy that was nice show). Still BBC promises special of the Reassembler (just think about it... Christmas Special of the show basically featuring old man in the shed playing with his spanner. Now that's post-modern).
They should have kept the format, changed names were required, and carried on.
That's what they are doing. Instead of the quiet Stig, its the loudmouth american. Instead of the studio, they have the tent. Instead of SIARPC, they have "Celeb Mind Whatevertheheck"... instead of "The News" they have "Conversation Street". It's changed enough(according to the lawyers) so that the BBC can't go after them.
I would go so far as to say, they'd do a complete exact copy of the show if they could get away with it... but this is what we are stuck with for now.
I know one thing for certain: Make sure there's a hot meal waiting for Clarkson after he gets back from the pub! Don't say I didn't warn you.
That seems a fair analysis as well, especially given that Amazon doesn't seem to have weighed in on the topic yet.
And I laugh when they smack jezzer in the head with a shovel
Well... yeah. :-)
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you realize you're supposed to report that on your state income taxes and report it for use tax...
It's not tax free, it's that you're not following tax law and no one is enforcing it (but if they decided to you're in a world of hurt).
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Amazon Prime in Canada costs $79, but AFAIK, it doesn't include access to Grand Tour. If it does and I've got it wrong, there's still a huge number of Top Gear fans in a lot of countries who don't have a legal option for getting the show.
So yeah, a lot of people are going to looking for torrents. Quelle surprise.
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They started this in Alabama at the beginning of November (I believe) for the same reason.
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The first episode was downloaded illegally 7.9m times, the second 6.4m times and the third 4.6m times.
That's a pretty severe falloff given they aren't paying to watch it. Doesn't bode well for the show's continued success.
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Amazon is basically charging $90 to watch a show. Who in their right mind would do that?
I certainly wouldn't. But I would enjoy the fact that a show I want to watch is included with our Prime membership. The first couple of episodes sucked, but episode 3 was okay and episode 4 was pretty good.
I find that about half the time, the thing I want is cheapest on Prime, at least within a couple of bucks of the absolute cheapest price from the absolute sleaziest seller. And I live in the sticks where my choice of shopping venues for many items is between K-Mart and Wal-Mart, so even if I wanted to pay the premium for supporting a local business, I couldn't.
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I do appreciate the way they are touting it as a global show, different country each week and all that, but apparently unless you actually live in the US you can go fuck yourself.
The plan is to stream it in 200 countries. The BBC is probably being a PITA about distribution.
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Sorry, I'm not a leech.
I even give money back when the cashier makes a mistake, remind them that might of forgotten an item, and tip generously at restaurants.
I paid for my copy of photoshop, acid pro 7 and cyberlink power director 15 too.
Knowing that I don't game or cheat the system makes me feel better about myself.
Effort goes into creating things. I don't mind rewarding that.
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I do appreciate the way they are touting it as a global show, different country each week and all that, but apparently unless you actually live in the US you can go fuck yourself.
The plan is to stream it in 200 countries. The BBC is probably being a PITA about distribution.
What does the BBC have to do with anything?
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Well, I downloaded three different torrents of E01 until I found one where both the audio and video were of acceptable quality, for E02, the second torrent was good enough, and by E03 I'd worked out which sources were not screwing up the encoding...
I suspect I'm not alone in this, so unless the "illegal download" figures have already taken this into account, extrapolating anything from the trend is a waste of time.
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What does the BBC have to do with anything?
I was expecting this question, since I am not new here, and I am never surprised when a slashdotter asks a stupid question.
Please think for more than two minutes about what the BBC has to do with anything before replying. There are hints all over these threads.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I am not really fond of DRM, and I like to be able to do whatever I want with content I pay for.
What precisely are you going to do with a light entertainment TV show other than watch it?
Use the script as the libretto for your next opera?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
They've promised to have it available in over 200 countries soon
Which is pretty impressive as there are only 196 countries in the world at the moment.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Hence, the pirating.
Shame. If we all did it, they'd stop making stuff, btw.
No, in The World According to Slashdot, Clarkson et al should tour with live shows and sell t-shirts, and the show itself would be a free download.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
The BBC have nothing to do with Clarkson et al, nothing to do with Amazon, nothing to with The Grand Tour and nothing to do with internet distribution for anyone but themselves. So please, enlighten my ignorance and explain how the BBC could be doing anything to positively or negatively affect this endeavour, especially in regards to its internet broadcast the 199 countries they have even less relevance in.
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Huh. So if you visit the UK, you won't be given access to Amazon Prime Video, despite that it's available in the UK?
Shhh, we're trying to keep them over there.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
They should have kept the format, changed names were required, and carried on.
That's what they are doing. Instead of the quiet Stig, its the loudmouth american. Instead of the studio, they have the tent. Instead of SIARPC, they have "Celeb Mind Whatevertheheck"... instead of "The News" they have "Conversation Street". It's changed enough(according to the lawyers) so that the BBC can't go after them.
I would go so far as to say, they'd do a complete exact copy of the show if they could get away with it... but this is what we are stuck with for now.
Also, unlike the Old New Top Gear, it's entirely pre-recorded. So any significant changes will have to wait for season 2 as they don't have enough time to replace large sections of the show with new VT's.
Doubly so seeing as it's winter. James May will be de-greasing his Motorbike in the bath tub. Richard Hammond will be delousing his throng of pets and Jeremy Clarkson will be enjoying a nice snifter of port by the fire fuelled by the bulk of hate mail he receives each week.
I suspect that planning for S2 will start soon-ish. Wilman and Clarkson aren't idiots and will have looked at what the viewers liked or disliked and change accordingly. Its not like they made a wildly successful program that occasionally featured cars for 13 years.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
So please, enlighten my ignorance
There is not time for that, but start here.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
OK, so you think the BBC have a contract stopping it? With who? Clarkson, Amazon or the rest of the world? When all this shit went down that got Clarkson sacked, you know he didn't actually get sacked, just didn't get his Top Gear contract renewed, no new contracts were imposed and they're obviously not under any kind of non compete or the show wouldn't have got made in the first place. So, what kind of contract would the BBC have that would stop Amazon from rolling out their own service under their own timetable? Do you think maybe they are strongarming the governments of Canada and that to not allow The Grand Tour to be shown so they can push new Top Gear? Do you think maybe they are holding Bake Off and Eastenders as leverage or something? Maybe you have insider knowledge on the BBC contacts, are you Tony Hall?
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Well, other than the fact that I I am not really interested in this particular title, It's nice to just slap one movie on a USB stick, to watch it anywhere. Or just have it sitting in my kodi library.
But just being able to put it on my phone's SD card to watch later on the go when I have no internet access is nice too. And if by chance I have access to a computer, I can transfer it back from it to have a bigger screen for my viewing pleasure.
These are some of the things I like to be able to do with my movies/TV shows, and DRM usually prevents it. I do not care about the rights that come with the content; the right to watch it (with whomever I want) is enough for me, but I care about *How* I watch it. I am personally not the kind of person who creates derivative works from the original content. So, just the 'M' for Management in DRM is what's bothering me here. Give me my rights back and let me manage my content!