Well, well, well – boot now getting on other foot? What the attraction with the Simpsons is, has so far escaped me, but it’s a wide world. We used to be bombarded with letters from Murdoch’s pay TV to subscribe, until I sent several back ‘Return to Sender – No interest’.

Stop complaining to Murdoch. He didn’t force you to buy the Simpsons three times. In fact he made it available three different ways, and you bought all three. You are the sucker.

Spend that $1,500 a year on local theatre, going to concerts, buying books, charity or traveling. You and your community will be better off.

(oh, and you don’t have to pay for Hulu to watch the Simpsons. It’s offered there for free!)

There’s no reason why they can’t come up with a solution that maximizes their profits while making user experience easy. They’ve simply created a bureaucratic mess for themselves with their resistance to change. Instead of working to come up with a solution that is innovative they’re screwing the consumer to keep shareholders happy.

Signed,
-Mr. Cynic

Great article! I agree completely.

TO THE NAYSAYERS LIKE Bernard above,
The public airwaves are owned by US, leased to guys like Murdoch. Yes he pays us, but is able to sell ads that makes him money and he is obligated to “serve the public” for the license he pays for – READ the license agreements!

NEXT the entire POINT you seem to be missing in this post IS that IF they do not make the content available legally and easier, that DO NOT COMPLAIN YOUR CONTENT IS BEING PIRATED!

Shoving horrible flawed legislation down our throats is not the answer. Paying off legislators is also not a recipe for success either. These people work for us, we can replace them and rid ourselves of flawed laws that were bought and paid. MPAA should not tell us objecting and protesting to the flawed laws they are willing to bribe our representatives with is somehow “an abuse of power.” The power is called democracy!

If Rupert wants to be a Monopolist or member of a Cartel, he should also be willing to face more regulation on his prices and such. Unfortunately for us, the USA has become lax with respect to anti-trust enforcement.

A great article man, you make some very valid points in which TV and movie companies are pushing people to stream and even download videos from sites which they are not meant to simple because free services from them have been stopped for now reason other then the fact they want to make more money!

For example, in the UK we have 4OD which is channel 4′s online video site etc where you can view last weeks shows etc just like another catch up service. But why do they all stop viewing so soon? I think you only get like 1 week to catch up on missed shows, but what if you go on holiday for a month and want to catch up with what you missed on your fav sitcom? Now you have to go a view or download those missed episodes for so called “pirate” sites.

But if something has already been aired on TV for everyone to view, how can downloading it for free be a bad thing? Its just the same as people recording it of the TV surely? Thats the way I see it anyway, or are they going to try and stop people from recording TV shows next?

P.S. “Now what have you taught my 13 year old” should that not say “Now that you have taught my 13 year old”?

Thanks again for another great article

This is, of course, only compounded by the ease at which we can now access information and entertainment via the internet. The fact is that I have billions of sites at my fingertips now… along with games, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, camera apps, travel planning tools – you name it – all on a phone/tablet/computer. Why am I going to pay attention to a TV show if its so difficult to find when I can do a multitude of over things with ease?

Of course, I agree with your thoughts regarding piracy… I just think that many people are giving up on TV all-together as well.