Don't know what you mean by "local ratings", but the U.S. has far stricter decency laws. For instance, we can allow swearing on television. From what I understand you can't do that on American network television.
Now we have something called the "X Factor" - the same thing only on a different network. Basically, Australian television networks don't do ANYTHING original. They just regurgitate UK and American crap. For instance, we're about to get Big Brother AGAIN - I hope that it damages Channel 10's ratings so badly they never do it again.
However, if they don't get viewers, they don't get advertisers. If people use BitTorrent to get shows they want to watch because they won't show these tv shows, then tough to the networks.
According to the article I read at lunch time, it's because they use a third party marketing company to do this. They weren't aware of this till recently - they'll get taken down soon.
And reality television shows. I can't believe we're going to get ANOTHER freaking Big Brother. How boring can one show get? That shows caused the IQ of Australia to decrease over a 10 week period.
On the commercial networks like Channel 7, 9 and 10 most of our content is Amercian, not British. If you watch the ABC (govt controlled and owned) you get more British content. And no ads in the shows.
Yep, that most definitely pisses me off (though I don't tape). StarGate, even a few years ago, got shifted around ridiculously (it happens to be one of my favourite shows). I can see that this same thing is going to happen to BattleStar Galactica. Time to start downloading!
Bingo. I seem to remember that some of my friends got pissed off that they showed Friends out of order, I saw the same thing for other shows like StarGate. Of course, don't mention how one of the Networks dropped Roswell... so why wouldn't we use BitTorrent?
I got StarGate Atlantis because I didn't think they were going to show it at all. However, now they have (gah!). That's not the only reason I'd use it though: the networks are notorious for rescheduling shows at inconvinient times - or they drop them altogether! So hence we need to use BitTorrent.
"A lot of them only rip or take what suits them." - how is that much different from a lot of Linux users? I don't think we can tar everyone with the same brush.
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That was me at one point. Now my karma is excellent. Go figure.
Don't know what you mean by "local ratings", but the U.S. has far stricter decency laws. For instance, we can allow swearing on television. From what I understand you can't do that on American network television.
They took down several BitTorrent sites, at least one I know of in Perth.
Now we have something called the "X Factor" - the same thing only on a different network. Basically, Australian television networks don't do ANYTHING original. They just regurgitate UK and American crap. For instance, we're about to get Big Brother AGAIN - I hope that it damages Channel 10's ratings so badly they never do it again.
Your post makes no sense.
That didn't flop. Hellboy did I think.
However, if they don't get viewers, they don't get advertisers. If people use BitTorrent to get shows they want to watch because they won't show these tv shows, then tough to the networks.
Well, economics for falling viewership will impact them pretty badly also.
According to the article I read at lunch time, it's because they use a third party marketing company to do this. They weren't aware of this till recently - they'll get taken down soon.
Isn't SBS partially government funded?
Someone mod that up!!!!
And reality television shows. I can't believe we're going to get ANOTHER freaking Big Brother. How boring can one show get? That shows caused the IQ of Australia to decrease over a 10 week period.
On the commercial networks like Channel 7, 9 and 10 most of our content is Amercian, not British. If you watch the ABC (govt controlled and owned) you get more British content. And no ads in the shows.
They've been doing that for years now. They did it for the X-Files as well - as a consequence we're always behind from the U.S.
Yep, that most definitely pisses me off (though I don't tape). StarGate, even a few years ago, got shifted around ridiculously (it happens to be one of my favourite shows). I can see that this same thing is going to happen to BattleStar Galactica. Time to start downloading!
Bingo. I seem to remember that some of my friends got pissed off that they showed Friends out of order, I saw the same thing for other shows like StarGate. Of course, don't mention how one of the Networks dropped Roswell... so why wouldn't we use BitTorrent?
I got StarGate Atlantis because I didn't think they were going to show it at all. However, now they have (gah!). That's not the only reason I'd use it though: the networks are notorious for rescheduling shows at inconvinient times - or they drop them altogether! So hence we need to use BitTorrent.
I'm sure SuSE would be more than happy to take up the slack, as would many other non-American companies! This could be a really good thing for the EU.
Unfortunately, this isn't going to happen as the market is lucrative in Europe and there's NO WAY that Microsoft would give it up.
Better correct the record huh? Oh, sorry, you can't as there is a ban on reporting on things. HTH. HAND.
Doesn't the SDL do this?
Good point!
What a way of getting around irritating laws about euthanasia! Great way for companies to increase their market share amongst 80 year olds.
Ain't capitalism grand?
LOL! Someone mod this guy up!
So we do a prefetch of an ad site, with related cookies so we can be tracked? No thanks! Is there a way of turning this feature off?
"A lot of them only rip or take what suits them." - how is that much different from a lot of Linux users? I don't think we can tar everyone with the same brush.