%$#@! ABC
Last summer I met a Slovenian at the Government Mule show, and i remember him telling me how hard it was to get music in his country, especially if one was in to bands like Gov't Mule. Basically for him tapped shows and illegal downloads where half the time the only way he and his friends could get the music, and the other half it was prohibitively expensive. I remembering finding that hard to imagine.
Until today. I tried to watch Lost at ABC.com and I got a note, politely informing me that only viewers in the United States of America can watch full length episodes. FUCK THAT!
That makes me so mad I could spit. Why!? I can not see any reason. I have a similar problem with iTunes, if they ever figure out that my computer is in Korea (my computer thinks its in America) I will not be able to buy music or download podcast. Also DVD's and Video games are region coded so that my DVD from America can only play in an America DVD player. This is done specifically to prevent me from using a Korean player, not because of any technological limitations.
Do they think that this prevent piracy? Hard to imagine since I can easily and illegally watch Lost and other TV shows commercial free and for free often the day the show airs. I can walk into a store here in Korea that is filled with burned copies of CDs that cost about $4 a pop. So therefore all these jackasses did was shoot themselves in the foot and encourage me to gain access to this material illegally, which will make me more likely to do it the next time.
Oh and it also not because people dont want to see these shows. Prison Break and Desparate House Wifes is wildely popular here. but they go out of thier way to shutdown legitamate ways of watching these shows (with the paid advertisements attached to them), like they they shut down the Armed Forces Network here because too many Koreans were getting it (but unfortunately not me).
Through my eyes I find all of these delibrate actions so rediculous and unnessicary that I have to ask the question: Is it because of racism? Or are they just trying to keep control of thier material in a death grip, only to have it slip through thier fingures the harder they squeeze.
I now officially and totally will begin a new era of enjoying pirated material guilt free, and I now advocate the dessemination and access to said materials by whatever means nessicary.
Until today. I tried to watch Lost at ABC.com and I got a note, politely informing me that only viewers in the United States of America can watch full length episodes. FUCK THAT!
That makes me so mad I could spit. Why!? I can not see any reason. I have a similar problem with iTunes, if they ever figure out that my computer is in Korea (my computer thinks its in America) I will not be able to buy music or download podcast. Also DVD's and Video games are region coded so that my DVD from America can only play in an America DVD player. This is done specifically to prevent me from using a Korean player, not because of any technological limitations.
Do they think that this prevent piracy? Hard to imagine since I can easily and illegally watch Lost and other TV shows commercial free and for free often the day the show airs. I can walk into a store here in Korea that is filled with burned copies of CDs that cost about $4 a pop. So therefore all these jackasses did was shoot themselves in the foot and encourage me to gain access to this material illegally, which will make me more likely to do it the next time.
Oh and it also not because people dont want to see these shows. Prison Break and Desparate House Wifes is wildely popular here. but they go out of thier way to shutdown legitamate ways of watching these shows (with the paid advertisements attached to them), like they they shut down the Armed Forces Network here because too many Koreans were getting it (but unfortunately not me).
Through my eyes I find all of these delibrate actions so rediculous and unnessicary that I have to ask the question: Is it because of racism? Or are they just trying to keep control of thier material in a death grip, only to have it slip through thier fingures the harder they squeeze.
I now officially and totally will begin a new era of enjoying pirated material guilt free, and I now advocate the dessemination and access to said materials by whatever means nessicary.