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South Park To Be Available Online Free and Legal
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Zonk
on Thursday March 27, @02:41PM
from the i-like-the-crazy-future dept.
from the i-like-the-crazy-future dept.
garnetlion writes "South Park is coming online, free and legal. My brief research has not indicated if it will use DRM, require some silly Windows-only software or be otherwise substandard. According to a Wired blog article, 'Parker and Stone said they were inspired to start the site when they got 'really sick of having to download our own show illegally all the time. So we gave ourselves a legal alternative.'" In this regard South Park joins fellow Comedy Central notable The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, whose archive was made freely available online late last year.
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Illegally? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Illegally? (Score:5, Insightful)
It's not like South Park and The Daily Show are shows that no one has ever heard of before, so it's good to see that mainstream content producers are in agreement with pretty much all the consumers of that content. I hope that it catches on, and with widespread attention in the MSM. There is nothing like some very popular people telling the world that *Hey, this should not be illegal!* to get the ball rolling.
I'm sure there will be more support for such activity when the RIAA finally admits they wasted all the money from the Napster case suing grannies and basically ruining all the good will that the recording industry ever had. Not many artists will continue to support that kind of stupidity when it gets rubbed in their face harshly like that.
woot! I'd like to see an entire network follow suit... say SciFi or Commedy Central or you pick... but one whole network that just says fuck it, lets let them download the stuff...
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Re:Illegally? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but making it legal to download will take all the fun out of it ...
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More free, legal TV online (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:More free, legal TV online (Score:5, Funny)
OMG
*crosses fingers*
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Re:More free, legal TV online (Score:5, Insightful)
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The Official Colbert Report [comedycentral.com] site is slow, experiences frequent outages, has mediocre quality video, crashes several major browsers after 10-20 minutes of viewing, and shows you the same add every two and a half minutes. On the plus side, it looks pretty.
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The pirate south park [southparkzone.com] site is slow, experiences frequent outages and has mediocre quality video. However, the shows are easy to browse and the adds are limited to things outside of the viewer window (and are blockable).
From my perspective, the choice is clear here. I am sure that Comedy Central will do a worse job than the pirates did. It will be just like when they got Colbert off of YouTube and replaced it with something worse.The media companies are really slow to learn: the Internet gives them a potential gold mine, they just have to come up with a way to deliver their wares that sucks less than what Joe up the street can do. So far, they fail, Comedy Central and Viacom included.
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Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
Now we'll see which mods have seen s12e03 yet.
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You bastards! (Score:5, Funny)
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"Oh my God... (Score:5, Funny)
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Wrong tense. (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Wrong tense. (Score:5, Funny)
Not "to be", eh? Well I guess that finally answer that question.
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Re:Wrong tense. (Score:5, Informative)
That's the soliloquy of "kill myself or not".
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Re:Wrong tense. (Score:5, Funny)
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Censored Mohammad episode (Score:5, Interesting)
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no drm (Score:5, Informative)
* i work for mtv networks doing video syndication, so i'm posting anonymously.
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They don't mind (Score:5, Insightful)
Their FAQs said that "Matt and Trey do not mind when fans download their episodes off the Internet; they feel that its good when people watch the show no matter how they do it." I felt good when I heard this, not because they legalised what I was doing, but because they made a truly great show and didn't believe in all the evil copyright laws.
Now, when they have offered a service to watch full episodes online, and to make small clips from episodes embeddable, I am a bigger South Park fan than ever.
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Informative? Huh? (Score:5, Informative)
The very first thing after "garnetlion writes" is that very same "informative" link.
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