How can NBC claim the ratings jump primarily on iTunes downloads?
Yes, it's the most popular video podcast available on iTunes, but I would think moving the series from Tuesday night to the more popular (at least for NBC's 'Must See TV') Thursday night had a bigger influence than iTunes.
I think it's great they are offering the series on iTunes, but I'm curious if they would still have had those 5.1 million viewers if the show was airing on Tuesday nights instead of Thursday? Not to mention their advertising budget promoting the show and it's new night?
Why should it be kept quiet? The information is already available if you look hard enough. Do you really believe you can keep this quiet, and if so do you trust those that are keeping it quiet?
In the article he suggests that the term file swapping is an incorrect usage since "file-swappers" are actually copying files and not swapping them. But in his earlier response he deems the usage of P2P networks as "stealing" music. When are they going to get it through there heads and people who download music are NOT stealing anything??!??
They may be infrining on copyright, but there is no theft involved.
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How can NBC claim the ratings jump primarily on iTunes downloads? Yes, it's the most popular video podcast available on iTunes, but I would think moving the series from Tuesday night to the more popular (at least for NBC's 'Must See TV') Thursday night had a bigger influence than iTunes. I think it's great they are offering the series on iTunes, but I'm curious if they would still have had those 5.1 million viewers if the show was airing on Tuesday nights instead of Thursday? Not to mention their advertising budget promoting the show and it's new night?
Here's a link to that debate. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/june03/copyright 9a.html
Why should it be kept quiet? The information is already available if you look hard enough. Do you really believe you can keep this quiet, and if so do you trust those that are keeping it quiet?
In the article he suggests that the term file swapping is an incorrect usage since "file-swappers" are actually copying files and not swapping them. But in his earlier response he deems the usage of P2P networks as "stealing" music. When are they going to get it through there heads and people who download music are NOT stealing anything??!?? They may be infrining on copyright, but there is no theft involved.