LOST Finale Breaks BitTorrent Records

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Ok, I did not watch this nor will I watch this, but I can say one positive thing about torrenting TV shows that almost makes it required given the networks can't give us what the torrenters give us. Look at this way typically you have to wait a few hours or more before a just aired television show will show up on the network's website or hulu or whatever. Most times however the show once put up is only in standard definition, not HD. Sure some shows get put up in HD but none of them contain surround sound audio and usually include commercials (albeit breif, but still).

With torrenting you get the show in as early as 20 to 30 minutes of it going off the air. You usually have your choice of SD or HD and if you get the HD it usually includes the surround sound audio (assuming it was broadcast with such audio). Lastly it contains no commercials.

What the networks fail to realize is that the quality of HD caps uploaded to torrent sites is a quality that they cannot match be it on their own website or hulu or otherwise. Until the networks can remove the commercials, give us the full audio, and shorten their upload times to as quickly as the torrenters, then "piracy" will not stop. But then again all that effort wouldn't matter because I have yet to see any online video rival the quality of that of a capped TV show uploaded to torrent and otherwise.

that's my two cents. I'm not saying that downloading tv shows via torrent is legal, but you get unrivaled quality with such.

Oh and don't throw the concept of nuked or bad uploads in my face because most times a repack or proper release gets uploaded even before the show still has yet to hit the network's site or otherwise.
 
Honestly, I torrent every TV show that I watch. Not because it's the cool thing to do or that I hate commercials, but for the quality & the convenience. I don't have to deal with missing 1 show to watch another, the video buffering every 2 min because a site overloaded with viewers or their heavily compressed, awful looking, videos. If they would create a downlodable universal player that every broadcaster would use that would allow them to add unskippable commercials, I would use it. Then they could distrabute the shows in various ways like torrents, download directly from the site..etc. That way, they still get the $ from commercials, we get to see the vids at the same time as they air & they get true viewership data insted of solely relying on the antiquated Nealson systom. After the season finishes, DVDs of the shows are commercial free with tons of extra content. Now, I'm sure theres better ways of doing it but it's all I could think of after coming off a 12 hr shift.
 
[citation][nom]gmarsack[/nom]I was kind of hoping they would end LOST like they ended Monte Python and the Holy Grail. Ah well...[/citation]
woulda been funny to see people reactions
 
I don't have a tv and hulu sucks ass, so i torrent lost. i feel like it really isnt costing abc any money, as i could watch it free if I wanted to wait longer and suffer the terrible quality. aside from some cable shows like dexter and always sunny, it's the only show i care about. Lost is the shiiiiit!!! what an epic ending.

ps. if you are complaining about the plot being too complicated after season 1 you are lazy and slow. maybe just stick to watching mtv and csi.
 
[citation][nom]ct1615[/nom]five million people downloaded the last episode of LOST in the first week...the same five million people then ask themselves "why the hell did I watch this over-hyped show?"[/citation]
And at the end most of them said WHAT THE F@#k...
 
[citation][nom]tayb[/nom]I would love to hear the justification for this one. Illegal downloaders are never short of bogus excuses but I am excited to see what nonsense they can come up with to justify torrenting a TV show that was just show on live television and available online for free at ABC.com. I honestly don't know what it is worse. You idiots who are illegally downloading this stuff or you idiots who are applauding the individuals who are illegally downloading this stuff.[/citation]

ur mom.
 
@tayb: They are probably just doing it to have the whole series. That said, whats the REAL difference between downloading and using MCE as a DVR to record them? Frankly, I found the show unwatchable at least on the first 2 seasons due to the amount of commercials and their frequency. So I set my MCE DVR to record it, waited for the entire season to be over, THEN watched the episodes because i simply HATE the level of commercials that are in that show. And because its broadcast on national television, you CAN record the whole thing and give it to your friends. It then falls under public broadcast. On the flipside, ripping the DVD and sending it, WOULD be illegal. Any way, tayb, why do you care so much about those media conglomerates any way. What have they done for you besides take your money? And if you think the amount of money they charge is fair, I've got a bridge to sell you.
 
[citation][nom]reve4parr[/nom]I just cant wait for kendra exposed to shatter that recordhttp://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/ [...] _week.htmlIts like the series finale of porn, all i can say is please seed![/citation]

I think I'll pass on her bestiality. Maybe you like coalburners, if so, EW.
 
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