Comments on: P2P, the last untaxed leisure activity

By: cyberscan

cyberscan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:02:19 +0000

Surfer, I have complained about this to several channel owners. Not once have I gotten a reply. I absolutely HATE those fucking pop up advertisements. Since I get less when I pay for a product than I do when I download it for free, the choice is obvious. It seems that producers and distributors are bound and determined to cut their own throats with their unmitigated greed.

By: kudos

kudos — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:15:35 +0000

Tom, when are you going to come work for the CRTC here in Canada?
(I know it made you laugh, but we need people who can see past their own nose :/ )

By: surfer

surfer — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:13:25 +0000

and the newest trend is commercials in the actual show… I want to murder the advertising fucktard who dreamed up in-show commercials and watermarking.

By: surfer

surfer — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:11:07 +0000

i hate commercials, with a passion.

I pvr the shows I like, edit all the fucking garbage out, compress them and THEN I sit down and watch them on my time, not theirs.

I hate commercials, with a passion!

I collect seasons, so on a sunday I can watch a 4 hr run of some show I like, WHEN I want. Thats what irks me most, is they pick the time to air the show, so I ‘rip’ it and i can gut the commercials, its very theraputic…

By: hackers/pirates of the world unite

hackers/pirates of the world unite — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:08:52 +0000

and its gets worse every year
and those ads ARE supposed top pay for it all and they now make you pay what 125$ for a decent line up and hten have commercials
THTAS what the real thing about this is , the scam called cable and satellite tv.

By: Henry Emrich

Henry Emrich — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:59:35 +0000

How anybody couldn’t have noticed this before is beyond me:
Your average “1-hour” show stateside contains, what? 41 minutes of actual programming?
This is also why they hate features that allow you to automatically skip over commercials.

It’s also why donation-based and other “not-for-profit” models actually provide substantive and informative programming.

By: Sukasa

Sukasa — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:12:48 +0000

I never thought about it this way, but this is a great reason for the Kartels to stop P2P – it reduces their ad revenue, which surely outstrips the revenue they get from the shows themselves.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:06:21 +0000

+1
It threw me for a curve. I didn’t expect the ending, but its true.