i am the fat manatee.: Opponents of Opponents are My Allies: BitTorrent Edition

stuffparty:

bmichael:

Regarding a certain web comic with a history of being the worst, Andy Ihnatko:

Here’s my conversation with a hypothetical person who wants to check out “Game Of Thrones.” Not with Matthew Inman, author of The Oatmeal, I hasten to say. Just a conglomeration of the species of…

Now let’s say you’re not in the US and a lot of times the options become:

1 Watch it on TV (if shown)

2 Buy it on DVD from the US

Of course, with option number two, you run into the wonderful region system, so you’ll also have to get a DVD player that will play the damn thing.

This shit needs to end. In Sweden, iTunes doesn’t offer TV shows. Any TV shows. None at all. And don’t talk to me about Hulu or Netflix or whatever. I’d love to have access to pay-per-stream TV shows.

One of my coworker is a paying Netflix subscriber. He then also pays for something like PlaymoTV to be able to actually watch Netflix on his AppleTV. (Apparently his bank doesn’t care that his card is being used in the US.)

Which means that he is paying twice to be able to watch the shows he wants here in Denmark.

So silly, why can’t we just have Netflix or iTunes TV Shows here?