First off, Fagstein, you come across as a bit of a snob - and I conclude that you suck.

Hey! Look! A dope who’s jealous that no one goes on his blog!!! Because you have a blog, right?

Unfortunately we live in a world where you have to pay for most things. Having to pay for luxuries like television are not the kind of thing I'd go and protest about. You sound like you would protest stuff just cause.

Because you always let it up yours saying nothing? Naaah, I guess that’s because you love it. Yeah, you must love it.

I think you're a dink and never want to read your blog again- because I don't have to!

You better watch out, because the Fagstein Brigade is gonna go twist your arm to force you to read it!!!

Unfortunately we live in a world where you have to pay for most things. Having to pay for luxuries like television are not the kind of thing I'd go and protest about.

I'm not. I pay quite a bit for television right now.

I think you're a dink and never want to read your blog again- because I don't have to!

You're right. Just like nobody forced you to read this post. I'd feel bad, but you're a random anonymous Internet troll.

Unfortunately we live in a world where you have to pay for most things. Having to pay for luxuries like television are not the kind of thing I'd go and protest about. You sound like you would protest stuff just cause.

I think you're a dink and never want to read your blog again- because I don't have to!

Enjoy your life-

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I've missed my whole point to your Rogers on Demand. I disagree that TVO and NFB are cheap content. They may be "free" (well our tax dollars fund it, so it's hardly 'free') but they are high quality. What robs them of being interesting is the same thing that kills a website: they rarely have updates!

Most of the content can be found elsewhere yet people just go to hulu where alot is right in one place.

Yet Hulu doesn't require authentication nor for people to subscribe to anything.

A friend of mine subscribes to various torrent RSS feeds. New episodes of his favourite shows are automatically downloaded to a large storage device in his basement.

Your friend must be a terrorist! In any case, he most definitely hates Amerika!!!
If old media has it’s way, he will be soon invaded by a SWAT team that will tase him and bring him to jail for 25 years and fine him $22.222.17 for every movie he pirated.
(I’m setup about the same, except for the large storage device in the basement, because I don’t have a basement).

You should read the posts you reply to. I didn't say that type of box was in the States. I specifically referred to it as "magic" and as a product that doesn't exist. U.S copyright laws are worse than ours. There are various efforts to globalize copyright law, and others to make Canadian law more closely resemble U.S law. All this merely to make sure that outdated business models can continue to work, and all at the cost of individual freedom, innovation, and competition. The internet is changing the world and old media is actively resisting, which is really too bad because if they got on board the world would change for the better much faster than it is changing now!

Geeks like me already have setups similar to what I described in their homes. A friend of mine subscribes to various torrent RSS feeds. New episodes of his favourite shows are automatically downloaded to a large storage device in his basement. His entire home is networked, so in the rooms where he has TVs (the bedroom, den, living room, kids room) he has installed modified XBoxes running media player software. Anyone in the house can turn on an XBox and watch the latest episode of almost anything. If they want to watch something they don't have, they can remotely add it to the queue using a web browser and in a few minutes it can be watched anywhere in the home. The XBoxes will play almost any video format and can also play YouTube videos, movie trailers from the Apple site, or music from the expansive collection also stored in the basement hard drives.

The technology to create this kind of setup is cheap, it's available everywhere, and the only thing stopping companies like Rogers and Videotron from figuring out how to monetize it is their own hardheadedness and stupidity. Instead of choosing to innovate, they have chosen to attack consumers through lobbying for aggressive changes to copyright law.