On Jul 27, 5:35 pm, JW <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It would be somewhat ironic if Fox really went ahead with this plan,
> > because by cutting off online content to the masses, it will almost
> > ensure the last of the big four broadcast networks to have been
> > created will be the first of the big four to close its doors.
>
> No. It just means that people who want to access their stuff online
> will do so "unofficially". It's easy for content providers to forget
> that option exists if they make their channels too inconvenient, but
> they'll be reminded.

But how many people actually do illegal downloads?  And how many of
those who do do so for Fox programming beyond "Fringe" and the Sunday
night cartoons?  Sometimes, I think the more ultra-computer-literate
on groups like this one think that everybody else is like them when
they're not.  If a teenybop or who missed "Glee" last night and didn't
record it wants to see it and can't watch it online, she'll watch it
on VOD (if their system has it), buy it from iTunes or wait until the
wall comes down in 8 days--just like she buys the songs from iTunes
every week and have made "Cast of Glee" beat out the Beatles for most
appearances on the Billboard Hot 100.

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