You can watch for as many hours as your subscription costs per month. Basically, they have a (growing) library of stuff that you can watch streaming using a PC with Internet Explorer 7.0. I've been a netflix subscriber for years, and this is a cool new feature. Netflix has a neat new feature called "Watch Now". Legal -> perhaps legally flawed, but morally, for me, fine.ĭownload -> download or otherwise view using a computerġ. In penance, let me actually attempt to answer the question, as long as I'm allowed to change the rules a little bit: I'm frustrated by the tendency of the copyright holders to make me continually feel like a felon who deserves to be shot because I sneak a download of Doctor Who now and then! I, for one, did watch the Amazon Unbox Bionic Woman pilot.Īnd yes, lots of companies are allowing the viewing of their shows for free online, but it's not really a download, it's usually streaming.īut, yes, I agree- I was a lot more snarky than I needed to be. Posted by bingo at 8:44 AM on November 18, 2007 I work in online advertising, so I'm seeing this process move forward every day, but in a couple of years, what I'm saying will be so obvious that this discussion will be a sort of quaint joke. Content is provided for free so that the users will view advertisements before, after, during, and alongside the content, and so that they will consider paying for similar content that is not yet free.
And ABC has many episodes of their shows available for free download.Įverything is under copyright, and the copyright owner is not even remotely interested in granting you permission to watch it in any other way.Ĭompletely untrue. And there's tons of stuff on Joost, including the original Flash Gordon serials.
For example, Unbox was offering the pilot of the new Bionic Woman as a free download before it could be seen on TV. ITunes frequently offers free downloads of episodic TV in order to promote certain shows, and so does Amazon Unbox. It's becoming a very popular way for networks to promote themselves, their websites, their other episodes, and their other shows. There are hundreds of TV shows legal to download. Not to be snarky here, but how could ANYTHING to legal to download?
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