Finally, someone gets it! Some people will always pirate, but I honestly believe a lot of people would rather use legal means (even if they pay a reasonable amount). It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
I can only hope that more TV shows come to Australia this way. The whole "let's broadcast the show in AU after the season already ended in the US" is such a huge pain and most definitely encourages piracy.
The only real reason I have for considering pirating something is that "it isn't available in my country for months after it's aired elsewhere", so this is great news.
Why on earth should I wait months before I can see it? I'm sure there's a reason advertisers do this but I don't see it.
BBC America can show it on the same day as BBC1, and it's a few hours later.
If ABC was to show it on the same day as BBC1, it would be several hours earlier. This might merely be embarrassing for the BBC, or it might cause a political row in the UK. "Why are TV licence fee payers paying for the new series of Doctor Who to be shown in Australia before it's shown in the UK?" "Brits paid for Doctor Who to be made, so Brits should get to see it first" etc.
I would love to see this, but as I live in Germany, I'm pretty sure I'll not be greeted by the episode or even a video player but a "not a available in your country" message.
Anyway, BBC probably already knows they could make a fortune if they offered a season for £9 on iTunes (or something like that) with no delay, so I'm not gonna call them about it.
Same here (also Germany). Worse yet, even if a german broadcaster was offering it, chances are you would only be able to get it dubbed in Germany without the option to switch to the original language.
"Piracy is wrong, as you are denying someone their rights and income for their intellectual property."
What a bunch of complete hypocrites. The only reason the show still exists is because of piracy, because the idiots at the BBC managed to most of the old episodes. So without pirates supplying the BBC and the general public with their copies of the old episodes, the show literally couldn't exist today.
Only most of the first and second doctors' runs were lost. Alot of the missing episodes that were recovered came from overseas broadcasters. The BBC always had the complete runs of the other five doctors - over 22 years of television.
Here in Canada the channel called Showcase airs their popular new sci-fi time travel cop show called Continuum soon after it airs.
It takes a while though because Canada is so big, six time zones, only after it airs on the west coast plus a delay while they upload it which pretty much means the next day.
Even with that and the delay to put up it's on thepiratebay.org about half an hour after it airs, a good 12 hours before it's officially put on Showcase's website. But Showcase does IP restrict viewers to Canada only, I don't agree with such regional restrictions.
I haven't watched Doctor Who since we left Austria and no longer get BBC via cable. I hadn't seen the new Doctor. Kind of a shock: wow, that guy's young. How is he as The Doctor?
I think he's excellent. What's amusing is, before he took over as The Doctor, some pictures of him circulated, where he has this total "sketchy emo kid" look going on. A lot of Doctor Who fans had a "WTF? No way can this guy be The Doctor" reaction. But from pretty much his first episode, he's been great. His rendition of The Doctor reminds me a bit of Patrick Troughton's.
Originally I thought I didn't like him, but in actuality he's a fantastic doctor and a nice deviation from the Tennant/Edelsson mix. I found the writing in the last season of the show to be abysmal, though. Didn't feel like Doctor Who at all.
He's supposed to be a little off. It's a plot thing. He plays the part perfectly.
Though, still, I wish they hadn't gone there. I preferred some of the past doctors. I don't dislike Smith as much as I used to, though. I'm pretty neutral on him now.
Now if only that would happen here in the US. I simply don't understand why I should have to pay to get something the next day when I could get it for free minutes after it airs.
"Piracy is wrong" morally sure, but economically I don't know. It's a complicated question, and without actual numbers the arguments for or against are totally meaningless.
I hate to be ungrateful but I'd like to see HD versions next time - in a lot of Australian broadcast areas there aren't any HD stations over the air any more.
[+] [-] dazzawazza|13 years ago|reply
Serving your paying customers and enticing pirates towards being paying customers is how ALL rights holders should behave.
It's been all stick and no carrot for so long.
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[+] [-] ajtaylor|13 years ago|reply
I can only hope that more TV shows come to Australia this way. The whole "let's broadcast the show in AU after the season already ended in the US" is such a huge pain and most definitely encourages piracy.
[+] [-] RossM|13 years ago|reply
Why on earth should I wait months before I can see it? I'm sure there's a reason advertisers do this but I don't see it.
[+] [-] betterth|13 years ago|reply
So why do we have convoluted workarounds in Australia if another ex-colony gets it fine?
[+] [-] mooism2|13 years ago|reply
BBC America can show it on the same day as BBC1, and it's a few hours later.
If ABC was to show it on the same day as BBC1, it would be several hours earlier. This might merely be embarrassing for the BBC, or it might cause a political row in the UK. "Why are TV licence fee payers paying for the new series of Doctor Who to be shown in Australia before it's shown in the UK?" "Brits paid for Doctor Who to be made, so Brits should get to see it first" etc.
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[+] [-] killercup|13 years ago|reply
Anyway, BBC probably already knows they could make a fortune if they offered a season for £9 on iTunes (or something like that) with no delay, so I'm not gonna call them about it.
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[+] [-] Alex3917|13 years ago|reply
What a bunch of complete hypocrites. The only reason the show still exists is because of piracy, because the idiots at the BBC managed to most of the old episodes. So without pirates supplying the BBC and the general public with their copies of the old episodes, the show literally couldn't exist today.
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[+] [-] dhughes|13 years ago|reply
It takes a while though because Canada is so big, six time zones, only after it airs on the west coast plus a delay while they upload it which pretty much means the next day.
Even with that and the delay to put up it's on thepiratebay.org about half an hour after it airs, a good 12 hours before it's officially put on Showcase's website. But Showcase does IP restrict viewers to Canada only, I don't agree with such regional restrictions.
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[+] [-] wccrawford|13 years ago|reply
Though, still, I wish they hadn't gone there. I preferred some of the past doctors. I don't dislike Smith as much as I used to, though. I'm pretty neutral on him now.
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[+] [-] 89a|13 years ago|reply
Already paid for it with my licence fee. I'll do what I want.
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