Foxtel locks up Game of Thrones: No more fast-tracked iTunes downloads
That doesn't bother me one shred (don't much like the show myself), but the principle of the thing annoys me.
The IRONY hurts so much.
"Stop pirating Game of Thrones please... also stop buying it."
Well that lasted about a week...
We're finished setting up out iTunes on TV rig. Joy.
We've just finished watching Walking Dead Season 3, quite hanging out now to watch Walking Dead Season 4 episode by episode as it aired in the future.
But maybe Foxtel has canned the deal to allow shows to be sold on iTunes as they air?
Walking Dead isn't HBO... and this IS an opinion piece, I'd want more info... but still, if this is true... I'm surprised they have that much power.
Freetard free-for-all just cause Foxtel won't compete [The Age]:
Oh, no, let me guess. You figured that by removing a timely and legitimate method for viewers to watch the show within a couple of hours of its US release, you would force a handful of extra punters to take out one of your lousy subscriptions?Well here’s a slow, sad little golf clap for you, Foxtel.
What you’re actually doing by trying to shore up your monopoly is guaranteeing that a whole heap of viewers who ponied up good, honest money to watch that series by a method other than membership of your exclusive club are now more likely to sign up to channel Bit Torrent.
I think I'm one of the last people left in Australia who is happy to pay for TV. Maybe my "market" (people who pay for TV but not subscribe to shite) is so small, annoying me doesn't even compute in their decisions?
Oh well. Back to waiting for DVDs to come out. Fun to think I lived in the 21st century for all of four seconds.