I pirated Game of Thrones season premiere

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Post by kevinjohn » Thu, Apr 04, 2013, 12:01 PM UTC

I pirated Game of Thrones season premiere
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Post by claudius » Thu, Apr 04, 2013, 12:12 PM UTC

If Sky doesn’t offer the service you expect, why do you keep paying for that insufficient service? They will hardly listen to someone saying ‘I don’t like the way you do things, but I’ll pay you anyways for not doing anything’ – on the other hand, were they only paid if they actually delivered the expected service, they at least might consider doing so.

(Also the link is currently a little broken with duplicate http-s.)

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 04, 2013, 12:35 PM UTC

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Post by Jleagle » Thu, Apr 04, 2013, 12:36 PM UTC

Link doesnt work - http://kevinjohngallagher.com/2013/04/pirated-game-of-throne...

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Post by philbarr » Thu, Apr 04, 2013, 12:51 PM UTC

You need a : in your link there fella.

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Post by mikecane » Thu, Apr 04, 2013, 12:52 PM UTC

I think it's time for some people to admit that when it comes to certain things, they have become addicts. This is not a condemnation. I was there with Forbrydelsen III (which at least was never going to be shown in the US as-is, and DK had the sense to open the stream worldwide due to ex-pat outrage, and which I not only watched streaming in Danish without subtitles but then also downloaded later when fansubs were available).

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Post by Nursie » Thu, Apr 04, 2013, 12:58 PM UTC

I don't really care about a delay of a day or so, and now I know that sky atlantic show some of this stuff that quickly I might even subscribe.

Of course the ideal would be ad-free, on-demand and not geographically restricted, but that doesn't seem to have occurred to anyone.

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Post by Swizec » Thu, Apr 04, 2013, 12:58 PM UTC

I pay for HBO and they would have aired Game of Thrones on Monday evening this week. A day later than in the US, which is fine by me.

But I was on a plane at that time and I have boxing practice when GoT airs anyway. So I shamelessly pirated the episode while at the airport (when did airport hotspots become 3.5MB/s monsters anyway?) intending to watch it on my laptop while flying over the atlantic.

I ended up watching it yesterday morning as I woke up at 6am due to jetlag.

I feel I did nothing wrong.

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Post by Svip » Thu, Apr 04, 2013, 12:59 PM UTC

mikecane wrote: post #6

I think it's time for some people to admit that when it comes to certain things, they have become addicts. This is not a condemnation. I was there with Forbrydelsen III (which at least was never going to be shown in the US as-is, and DK had the sense to open the stream worldwide due to ex-pat outrage, and which I not only watched streaming in Danish without subtitles but then also downloaded later when fansubs were a…

Fansubs of Danish programming? Now I've heard that as well!

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Post by djhworld » Thu, Apr 04, 2013, 1:00 PM UTC

I have a netflix subscription and find it more convenient than pirating. It's less of an effort for me to sit down, turn on my PS3 and run netflix than it is to find a torrent, download a huge file, transfer the file to a NAS, turn on my PVR and select the file to watch.

Unfortunately netflix doesn't have everything and the netflix UK selection is sometimes really far behind what the US get so I have to either change my DNS to receive the US content, or as a last resort...pirate.