Comments on: Why internet TV is failing and torrents are winning

By: 40f's

40f's — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:27:05 +0000

Read the article before posting. He is not complaining about lack of content, he is complaining about the content not being available in other countries.

By: John

John — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:03:42 +0000

Anyone who still uses torrents is WAAYY behind the times. I can watch multiple shows online in the time it takes to download one torrent.
The problem with this article, is their bases for comparison is wrong, SO wrong. Using Hulu and the WB as benchmarks is ridiculous, when there are sites like SurftheChannel.com, and Tvshack.com that contain THOUSANDS of TV episodes, new and old, from multiple sources. And many of them are available as soon as they air on TV.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:18:27 +0000

> just one of the many perfect reasons why bittorent and its successors are here to stay no matter what the riaa, mpaa and other global government acronyms

Thankfully, they’re not related to the government in any way, or we’d be screwed.

By: Disson

Disson — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:02:07 +0000

Also some apps from the iTunes store for iphone cannot be bought unless your in the US.

witch sucks coz there is some pretty cool apps :(

By: Iain

Iain — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:55:16 +0000

Xane: Because the BBC are funded through people in the UK paying TV licences. Because of this, the BBC runs without adverts, which is brilliant: none of this turning a 40 minute programme into an hour long one. This means that the BBC iplayer follows this practice too, which means 2 things:
1. People living in the UK who own a TV have payed the licence fees, and therefore have the right to use iPlayer.
2. The BBC can barely afford the bandwidth costs as it is, never mind the bandwidth usage if it were opened up to the the entire world.

That said, it would be nice if there were no restrictions on stuff like this. I’d like to be able to use Hulu, but its US only.

By: Tina

Tina — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:57:40 +0000

They treat a lot of paying people like pirate as well and they block us from so many thing we want, So we skip over all that pay in the ass work to get whats free and easy.

By: Def

Def — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:41:14 +0000

I want to get rid my cable company ! I have vonage now – Why can’t we see something like vonage Net TV in the future ? These cable companies are a joke ! 80% Of the TV shows are garbage and im paying for it ! EDIT

By: Andreas`

Andreas` — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:19:03 +0000

I live in Holland and I thought I could view sort of everything.. but no, damn topgear: url

By: dexter

dexter — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:27:29 +0000

well guess living in the US is good for something.

By: 2pants

2pants — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:27:43 +0000

If you live in some countries like Canada then it’s not an issue of whether or not companies would like to provide you with content. Our government prevents legitimate businesses from providing content unless the can follow our Canadian content laws.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content
Unfortunately at least %90 of Canadian content sucks donkey balls.