Illegal TV downloads as popular as they are only because the media refuses to deliver
Last night’s penultimate episode of Doctor Who series four didn’t let up on the excitement from the opening teaser to the last second. It was incredible, and how fans outside the UK can avoid spoilers before getting the chance to watch an official broadcast on their own local channels, I’ve no idea—but trust me, if you’re one of them, you should try. It has to be said, though, that fantastic cliffhangers don’t exactly discourage illegal downloads of shows via the likes of BitTorrent, do they? Not when populations are otherwise expected to wait a year or more to see all the fuss for themselves.
tags: Apple TV, BBC, Blu-Ray, cult tv, Doctor Who, DVD, HD, illegal downloads, iPlayer, iTunes, media, piracy, TVDoh! Stupid Simpsons DVD won’t open!
We bought The Simpsons Movie on DVD yesterday. The case had the most stupid red button on the side; whatever it was supposed to do—it turned out it’s attached to what seems to be a lever mechanism extending across the case, under the DVD—it prevented us from opening the damned thing. A little applied force in desperation, and the box split, front and back, with shards of plastic exploding outwards. The cover sleeve is torn, again front and back, and the stupid thing still won’t open.
tags: DVD, packaging, The Simpsons
