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PBS’s “Silicon Valley” to Debut Tonight

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Re: PBS’s “Silicon Valley” to Debut Tonight

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doktrin wrote: post #16
alaskamiller wrote: post #11

In another 5 years they'll finally get around to producing a show about Silicon Valley now. About how the silicon became fabless and offshored. About how Indians took over Koreatown, how all the buildings along the 101 stretch went up then empty. About how the pioneers settled down while the goldrushers came in wanting a piece in San Francisco even though the 49ers came down to Santa Clara. About how the old campuses…

> About what happens in the middle of the night in those corporate parks Your office park sounds much more interesting than mine (Menlo). After 9 PM it's crickets all the way down.

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Re: PBS’s “Silicon Valley” to Debut Tonight

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Post by jaytaylor »

Itaxpica wrote: post #20
wavesounds wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dont see how this is stealing - PBS is funded by our tax dollars and owned by the public

Which is why, as thefreeman points out above, its legitimately available online for free. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/

It looks to me like it costs $19.99 http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=18789896

Re: PBS’s “Silicon Valley” to Debut Tonight

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Post by [deleted] »

Itaxpica wrote: post #20
wavesounds wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dont see how this is stealing - PBS is funded by our tax dollars and owned by the public

Which is why, as thefreeman points out above, its legitimately available online for free. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/

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Post by greyboy »

dhughes wrote: post #9
hkmurakami wrote: post #6

I tried in vain to figure out what time of day this will be airing on the West Coast, since I'm at the office and can't check the show schedule. Hopefully I can get home early enough to record a re-run :(.

It's on at 9pm until 10:30pm where I am in Canada but we get Boston PBS but I'm one hour ahead of US Eastern but the show times are shown in my local time by my TV provider. For the US Eastern time zone 8pm to 9:30pm, if US Pacific time does PBS show at the same time or 8pm locally? There wasn't that easy? lol I'm guessing 8pm.

I'm about as US Eastern as you can get and it's 9-10:30pm here.

Re: PBS’s “Silicon Valley” to Debut Tonight

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Post by wavesounds »

Itaxpica wrote: post #20
wavesounds wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dont see how this is stealing - PBS is funded by our tax dollars and owned by the public

Which is why, as thefreeman points out above, its legitimately available online for free. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/

Not trying to troll I just don't understand why this is 'legitimate' and the pirate bay is not? If this was produced with my tax dollars and broadcast free on tv with no commercials why isn't it perfectly acceptable for me to download this via a torrent?

Re: PBS’s “Silicon Valley” to Debut Tonight

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Post by wavesounds »

jaytaylor wrote: post #22
Itaxpica wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is why, as thefreeman points out above, its legitimately available online for free. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/

It looks to me like it costs $19.99 http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=18789896

Yeah only the first 15 minutes are on their website. No idea why people who own a tv who can watch the whole thing and people who only own a computer only get 15 minutes.

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Post by stch2 »

wavesounds wrote: post #18
stch2 wrote: post #15

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You can always steal it from thepiratebay/megaconz

I dont see how this is stealing - PBS is funded by our tax dollars and owned by the public

download/steal/copy/whatever you want to call it. I was just suggesting a place to get it from.

Re: PBS’s “Silicon Valley” to Debut Tonight

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Post by bryans »

wavesounds wrote: post #18
stch2 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can always steal it from thepiratebay/megaconz

I dont see how this is stealing - PBS is funded by our tax dollars and owned by the public

PBS is not owned by the public, and only 15% of its funding comes from government programs.

Re: PBS’s “Silicon Valley” to Debut Tonight

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Post by pohl »

wavesounds wrote: post #18
stch2 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can always steal it from thepiratebay/megaconz

I dont see how this is stealing - PBS is funded by our tax dollars and owned by the public

The portion of funds of funds that come from the federal government is smaller than you think, and conservatives are constantly posturing to take even that away. (Recall the Big Bird meme that came out of the presidential debates?). The lions share of federal funds go to keeping stations broadcasting, not towards content creation.

It's unlikely that any given piece of content was wholly funded by the public.

http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/us-government-works.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadcas...

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