The Archives
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02.21.07Aussies TV piratesObvious... And no wonder, the delays experienced are unreasonable, particularly given the small number of inroads being made by networks on shows such as Jericho, which screens here less than 24 hours after US broadcast. This proves that there is no justification for the unreasonable delays that Australian viewers are constantly put through. On top of the broadcast delays, the scheduling unpredictability disasters that Australian viewers are regularly subject to (over time, I've seen shows such as Buffy, The West Wing, Angel, Babylon 5 and just about anything else you'd care to name suffer at least once) ...
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03.14.06Resistance is (not) futile… apparentlyWhile The Pirate Bay undoubtedly has pointers to material of less-than-legal status, BitTorrent itself is a hugely useful technology, with many legal implementations. Thanks to a combination of (sensible) Swedish law and determination on the part of the operators of The Pirate Bay, the MPAA has failed in a takedown maneuver aginst the site. Full report at Wired News.
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03.13.06How Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TVNot new, but this is a great article about the shift to user-controlled television viewing (based on downloading of shows, either legally or otherwise), driven by issues such as release and broadcast schedules in different markets. The success and viewing by worldwide audiences of shows such as Battlestar Galactica (and any number of others) is used as a key example of this shift and how makers and distributors might actually make real, profitable use of this shift. There is also a follow-up article. I'm not allowed to use BitTorrent at work, so I'll have to download the video of ...
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12.09.05From digg: BTSeasonPass.comI know none of you would ever download anything illegally (and frankly, the legality or otherwise downloading of already broadcast TV shows is open to argument). However, you may be interested in BTSeasonPass.com.read more | digg story
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11.24.05Do you torrent? Use Firefox? Read this!Excellent article on combining the power of BitTorrent with Firefox. It discusses popup killing, mimetype management, direct searching, site customisation with Greasemonkey and BitTorrent integration directly with Firefox. All useful information, and I know you're not using BitTorrent for anything of a dubious legal nature... Right?
