Okay, everyone who knows me knows that I watch too much TV. I have my favorite shows and I don't like to miss them. So when I first came over here, I downloaded my favorite shows off of iTunes; Heros, Battlestar, Eureka to name a few. I thought that even though I was on the other side of the world, why should I miss my favorite shows? So after reading about all new cool new shows starting this fall in the states I thought I would just download those as well,,,,, oh but nbc hates me. Well, not just me, but I can take it personal right?
NBC took all of its content off of iTunes and moved it all to Amazon's Unbox, something about wanting to try something else... okay, I thought, I'll just have to go to two places to watch my tv shows; Heros airs on nbc and the new shows Chuck and Bionic Woman is there as well. But then I find out that you have to download a special player (okay, I did that for iTunes) and I would only get to watch it on my computer (that sinks a bit, but I'll deal). So I download the software and free pilot of Chuck BUT when I opened Unbox to watch Chuck I got a message saying the show couldn't be downloaded because of copyright issues because I'm not in the States!
Then I find out it's the same for all of the shows!!!! Now I don't know if it was just like that because it was a free download and I didn't have to put in a credit card number, but I was logged into Amazon and I have my US credit card on file. But I wanted a free show!!! The reason why I used iTunes was because I could still download everything (legally) from Japan cause I have a US credit card.
If I find out I all the shows are the same, free or not, then I'm off to bittorrent. For all the talk about tring to keep people from downloading things off the Internet illegally and all the lawsuits, nbc just pushed me there.
okay, sorry about my rant, I just had to get it out!
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