interesting articles about tv torrenting

[nametakentwice]

Inside Story: The Making of a Legal TV Torrent

Television Industry - Is Piracy a Good Measure of Success

The revolution cometh.

It's been interesting how TV and radio news has been talking about torrents lately, particularly about how Bell and Rogers throttle them, bringing up issues of Net Neutrality. Meanwhile, the articles above show how TV

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[theflamingpi]

You prefer TV being on TV because your TV is bigger than your monitor. My monitor is bigger than any TV I've ever owned. Hence, I would prefer to watch TV on PC.

Bell is taking the most heat. They're battling it out in the courts at the moment (at least that's what I read).

Downloading Ubuntu by torrent has got to be the silliest idea yet. It's a relatively small download and chances are there is a mirror host near you that will provide it faster than torrents. Plus, if you already run ubuntu, as you claim, you know that all you have to do is run:

sudo update-manager -c

And then you click the upgrade button. Or, since Gutsy already checks for a new official version on boot (and whenever a cron job says to), it should theoretically be possible to just to wait until it tells you that there is a new version. The benefits of installing fresh from a disc are few indeed. One of the reasons to use a Debian-based distribution is to download all updates as they happen. There is no need to download a whole new CD. Just upgrade yourself and order a new FREE disc when it comes out.

8.04 Hardy Heron will be LTS, which makes me happy. I tried the kernel out a while ago. It was snazzy and faster than Gutsy. I'm thinking of upgrading to the beta early, like I did with Edgy and Gutsy.