BitTorrent and TV in Oz
p2pnet.net News:- As Alex Malik told p2pnet a while back, by delaying the broadcast of popular TV programs, Australian programmers have increased local demand for popular TV shows and as a result, “impatient viewers have increasingly turned to BitTorrent to download their favourite shows.”
ZDNet Australia has picked the story up and, quoting Malik, says, “Some Australians are turning to file-sharing networks for new episodes of their favorite American television shows. According to a new report, the popularity in Australia of one peer-to-peer application – BitTorrent – is driven in part by local television networks that have adopted a strategy of being slow to air current episodes of popular TV shows.”
Catflap saw the ZDNet item and has a few thoughts on the subject.
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It’s not just happening in Australia, it’s everywhere outside the USA.
Jeez, we knew this years ago. I don’t understand why this so-called “new report” is being blogged everywhere. It’s old news. Very old, OLD news. One ‘new’ report doesn’t make old news new again.
The problem is an out-dated syndication/airing rights system controlled by advertisers and the general, out-of-touch-with-reality mentality that Hollywood has with the rest of the world, still believing everything revolves around La-La-Land in the good ol’ U-S of A.
But thanks to the computer age, the Southern Hemisphere now knows exactly what’s happening in the Northern Hemisphere. They’re sick and tired of it and they’re not gonna take it anymore.
There are indications that things are getting a little bit better in some parts of the world.
Where I live in Europe, new shows like “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost” are just beginning. But although now in it’s 5th season, “Gilmore Girls” has only just started being aired and the mini-series “Taken” hasn’t even shown up in tv listings yet.
Beginning a few years ago with LOTR I and Star Wars I, the Hollywood moguls, studios, and cartels (read illegal anti-trust New World Order-controlled monopolies) slowly started to expand their first-run screen distribution to include select demographics outside of America.
But it looks like Hollywood has finally realised there’s a very real immediate demand around the globe for first-run entertainment, from the people who pay their salaries.
We don’t want to wait months or years or even forever. And we won’t – at least not as long as filesharing is legal.
There’s no piracy involved by filesharers. The real pirates and criminals are in Hollywood, stealing our money and producing garbage, pushing their Tinseltown culture on the rest of the world.
But that’s OK.
Just give it to us at the same time, and if we don’t like it we’ll tell you in the form of low ratings and advertisers’ sales of crappy products.
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See:-
turned to BitTorrent - Big Music ‘raids’ Oz ISP, p2pnet, March 10, 2005
April 6th, 2005 at 2:29 am
I learned this quite interestingly through a torrent tracker i found in my efforts to get caught up after midterms.
They had the eps i had missed.. and they also had the season finales which had yet to air in the US. the network watermark was a british tv service.
now whose getting left behind.
April 6th, 2005 at 2:33 am
Im not suprised. In australia we are a series behind in reality TV shows like Amazing Race, so its very hard to avoid results like who won!! That 70s show was up to series 5 or 6 before we even got series 2 here.
TV stations here screaw the viewers by constantly playing new eps mixed in with old to draw out ratings, change broadcast times and id love to see a viewer backlash to put them in line.