Viacom, MSNBC hopping on the truck
So everyone's complaining about torrenting, which is incredibly illegal and morally disgusting and disregarding the rights of artists and betrays honest working companies for money. Then there are the other people who are not allowed to speak out loud who think that it's just fine.
See, Comedy Central airs FOR FREE in the US. I don't think that there's anything wrong with people watching shows FOR FREE on the internet, since they can't get them on tv. But viacom sees that differently and the tds and tcr episodes are now not available in most countries outside the US.
What they forget is that they don't lose any money, just viewers, and that people always find a way to get around these restrictions. See, I have a virtual machine with Hotspot Shield, I know very easy-to-handle proxy sites that work here and I can get into the tor network any time I want. I'd just rather stay on the entirely legal side, but they're giving us no choice.
The Daily Show climbed the hitlist of isohunt over the past days and it's not because people are suddenly evil (and it's least of all because they want to degrade Jon Stewart) but because Viacom makes it the only way possible.
Disclaimer: I do not pretend that I know about these topics. I'm just ranting.
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