“Here is a copy of the email sent to me from my ISP after HBO caught me downloading the latest episode of Entourage. Who knew that HBO would be watching?”
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That’s a little scary thinking about how many times over the last 4 years I have depended on downloading to receive quality television. I guess HBO is trying to protect its investments, but they should be looking into expanding their investments. If HBO is tech Savvy enough to track the IP’s of users downloading their shows, I would imagine that they are tech savey enough to offer their shows on Bit Torrent, for a small price of course. Luckily for HBO, Entourage is the type of programing most people would probably be willing to pay for, I know I would. It seems like misdirected effort on behalf of HBO since they will never be able to stop people from downloading, they should really be working on providing a profitable alternative.
On the subject of downloading TV shows; TipMonkies has an informative article on how to Automatically download TV shows via BitTorrent. Using a mix of RSS and Bit Torrent you will have a TiVo-like system set up, for free!
