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Seeking Nerdvana Forget Comcast's P2P Bill of Rights, how about the rights of couch potatoes? | Forget Comcast's P2P Bill of Rights, how about the rights of couch potatoes? |
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| by Adam Turner | |
| Thursday, 17 April 2008 | |
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Comcast is now trying to save face by introducing a P2P Bill of Rights, but I think we need to go back a step and look at why people share files in the first place. The financial advantage of stealing music and movies is obvious, but why do people steal TV shows when they're already free? The answer, in Australia at least, is because the networks treat viewers with absolute contempt. If networks want to fight piracy, here's a viewers' Bill of Rights they might consider: COUCH POTATOES' BILL OF RIGHTS: 1. Viewers have the right to watch a TV series in the order the creators intended. 2. Viewers have the right to watch a TV series weeks or months after it first screens overseas, rather than years. 3. Viewers have the right to expect a TV series to appear at the same time every week, rather than be moved to the graveyard slot and then screened on random days. 4. Viewers have the right to watch an entire series in one stretch, rather than suffering through weeks of repeats and "best ofs" before the series finale. 5. Viewers have the right to expect a TV program to start on time, rather than 15 minutes late in order to screw over PVR owners. 6. Viewers have the right to watch a TV show in its entirety, rather than have scenes cut so more advertisements can be crammed in. If television networks could abide by these simple rules they would go a long way to bringing BitTorrent users back into the fold. What ammendments would you add to the Couch Potatoes' Bill of Rights?{moscomment}
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