[QUOTE][tab]The Czech private television station TV Prima has been caught hosting pirated episodes of the TV-series Fringe on their web server. If that wasn’t awkward enough, Fringe does air in the Czech Republic, but on a competing TV station.[/tab]
The American science fiction TV-series didn’t make it into our
list of the most pirated TV-shows of 2009, but nevertheless each
episode is downloaded nearly a million times from all over the
world.
The main reasons people have for downloading TV is to catch up
with missed episodes, or to watch episodes that are not yet
available in their country. While this used to be a relatively
geeky habit half a decade ago, today even computer illiterates
know how to download a TV-show.
People who make their living in the TV business are not excluded
from this group either. Earlier this week, on MSNBC’s Countdown
with Keith Olbermann, the Canadian comedy group ‘The Kids In The
Hall’ admitted to pirating their own shows via BitTorrent on
multiple occasions.
Their reason? They had trouble getting their own episodes over the
border legally.
In the Czech Republic a slightly more embarrassing example of
BitTorrent use among TV-insiders was uncovered recently. TV Prima,
one of the local television stations, was discovered to be hosting
two episodes of Fringe on their servers, accessible via a public
FTP.
Apparently one of the employees missed two episodes that aired on
competing station Nova Cinema. Since TV Nova will only start
offering shows via the web starting this fall, there was no other
option than to turn to BitTorrent.
Unfortunately the on-demand offering from TV Prima didn’t last
long. Shortly after the ‘mistake’ was revealed by a local website
the open FTP was closed.
[tab]TV Prima hosting warez:[/tab]
[QUOTE][IMG]http://torrentfreak.com/images/iprima-warez.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE][tab]Source: [/tab][B][URL="http://torrentfreak.com/tv-station-hosts-pirated-copy-of-fringe-100813/"]TorrentFreak[/URL][/B][/QUOTE][/QUOTE]
Czech your sources.
Pahahaaaaaa, idiots.
Hilarious. :v:
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Whether it's true or not. :downsv:
I Love this show
[b]Czech Republic citizen represent.[/b]
I can confirm two things from my own experience:
-Czech Republic is the most thief swarmed nation in Europe.
-TV Prima is the [b]worst[/b] TV station on the face of this planet.
LOL! They didn't even rename the files...
Wow, good going morons.
Walter Bishop isn't going to like hearing this.
[QUOTE=farmatyr;24081979]Czech your sources.[/QUOTE]
You sir, win.
Fringe is a new linux distro silly
utorrent is better than bittorrent
The fact of the matter is piracy exists because they charge too much for the dam things. Stop making people pay aton of cash and make it affordable.
But the children, think about the children they need to feed.
[QUOTE=shatteredwindow;24096538]utorrent is better than bittorrent[/QUOTE]
At least thats what i'm told... by my sources.
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