Interesting Links for 02-05-2012

[andrewducker]

• MPs announce that Rupert Murdoch is not a fit person to run News Corp
  (tags: media news RupertMurdoch uk )
• The EU's Common Agricultural Policy is slowly being reformed.
  (tags: agriculture europe law money )
• Unrealistic expectations of relationships are a scourge on society.
  (tags: relationships family society uk )
• How Marvel took The

Comments

[naath]

I'm not sure why a US-based TV-listings site is interesting... (lots of UK folks have linked it, US people linking it makes more sense).

I'm sick of supposedly serious journalists claiming that marriage is superior to non-married cohabiting. Really fucking sick. I think they have the correlation the wrong way around on the break-up stats; but I also really don't fucking care - if your relationship sucks you should end it, and doing so shouldn't be something that draws social ostracisation.

[andrewducker]

The majority of the TV I watch is made in the USA. About the only UK TV I've watched recently is Dr Who, and the site has that.

[naath]

Sure, I watch US TV too... but I don't find knowing when it's going to be on in the US very useful.

[andrewducker]

Aaah. I do, as it tells me when it will be available for downloading (Game Of Thrones airs at 9PM in the US, which is 2am in the UK, which means it's available to download by the time I wake up).

[naath]

Ah right. I'm. Er. Too lazy to bother.

Although I want to watch GoT season 2; so maybe I should dig it our of the the internet sewer.

[andrewducker]

If I want to watch TV in bed (and I do) then downloading it is the only option (other than waiting for the Blu-Ray, which I will be buying anyway).

As it is, I am not putting up with being massively spoiled by people talking about it online between now and next January when the season two box set comes out.

[naath]

I read the books, so I'm not faffed about spoilers, but I like teh shiny moving peeectures.

[andrewducker]

They are very shiny.

And frequently _very_ pink.

[steer]

Heh... you've reached the point of "when can I start torrenting this" with GoT too?

Have you come across tvtorrents.com? It's a minor pain to get started but it really is very good.

[andrewducker]

I mostly use http://KAT.ph which has a page for each TV show, broken down by episode, which is very handy.

What does tvtorrents.com do for you? (I am _so_ not looking at it from work.)

[steer]

Similar but without adverts, complete season downloads available on season completion, and perhaps slightly better coverage of older shows (e.g. when I tried "Red Dwarf" it didn't have a page of its own -- though you could still easily find the torrents). It's also a closed tracker which encourages people to contribute -- that's not an issue for anything even half way modern.

Being honest though that site you linked to is OK and there's probably little or no benefit in you switching. Also it has wider coverage of things -- not limited to just TV and includes sports on TV.

[andrewducker]

Thank you! I shall take a look when I have a moment.

[channelpenguin]

where do you download your stuff from? legal, illegal, semi-legal?