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Watch a movie for free now, or worry about whether you can in the future?
Decisions, decisions...
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...or worry about whether there will be anything you want to watch in the future...
I find (arbitrarily) that most TV and films I view were made before 1994. I have found a great decline in the quality of programming since that time period. An example is the lack of originality...new blockbusters just remakes think iron man, x-men superman, etc. Kinda see the same in the music industry as well.
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Hulu ... takes a subscription to watch commercials which are still needed.
Subscription is cheap, and the commercial breaks are much shorter, so it's still a win -- if you have broadband, and your provider isn't throttling Hulu to "keep the competition at bay".
since DMCA is global
Not quite yet, TISA hasn't been ratified (as far as anyone knows -- draft and negotiations are secret).
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ACORN TV streaming British Comedy, Drama, Mysteries and more.
30 days free trial, if you continue, $4.99 month, or $49.99 year.
http://acorn.tv/featured
Leaving Soon 7/6/14
Broadway Musicals
http://www.broadwaydocumentary.com/
If you have a Mac, use Popcorn Time
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"You sound like the Y2K people / end of the world for streaming/downloading. Doubtful.”
As someone who had to stay up late on 12/31/1999, the “Y2K people” were worried for very good reasons. And those “Y2K people” worked very hard to avoid both obvious and subtle problems written into mountains of code. As a result of this hard work, in my corner of that world, we had a quiet night.
Y2K concerns are not the same as pirate web sites retransmitting copyrighted material. With the Aereo case now decided by SCOTUS in favor of the networks, the "end of the world for streaming/downloading” may not be so “Doubtful” when the copyright holders start collecting money from some entity in the chain of retransmission.
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Pete...are you for real? There would be no internet if it weren't for the subversives (you may call hackers all though I don't just mean hackers). The youth will always be better, faster, stronger when it comes to technology and they are fueled by breaking the rules. Those broken rules create the new normal. It is the way of the virtual world. The end of streaming/file sharing will never come ever.
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Thanks Rob,
It does work great, that's why I'm still up.[

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quote:
Originally posted by Derrick Barnicoat
There would be no internet if it weren't for the subversives (you may call hackers all though I don't just mean hackers).
Wrong. The Internet was invented by the Department of Defense (not directly but by university researchers under contract). It was ARPANET for many years before it got the name Internet.
In fact, university researchers feel the existing Internet has turned into a ghetto and no longer suitable for their use. Internet 2 has been in development for several years now and it is a closed network, being able to transfer a Blu-ray movie in seconds, not hours. No, the Internet is not there because of hackers, it is there because of scientists and engineers, just like everything else we define as civilization. Rather, hackers are there because of the Internet. Remember that if you get a notice that your credit card has been compromised.
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