<story><title>HBO Decides It Still Isn&apos;t Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120418/08405618545/hbo-decides-it-still-isnt-difficult-enough-to-watch-hbo-shows.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guccimane</author><text>Andy Ihnatko about Oatmeal about difficulty of watching Game of Thrones: &lt;a href=&quot;http://ihnatko.com/2012/02/20/heavy-hangs-the-bandwidth-that-torrents-the-crown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ihnatko.com/2012/02/20/heavy-hangs-the-bandwidth-that...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>PureSin</author><text>Oatmeal about difficult of watching Game of Thrones: &lt;a href=&quot;http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;and how I feel as a non US resident: 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://theoatmeal.com/pl/game_of_thrones/nz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://theoatmeal.com/pl/game_of_thrones/nz&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjcm</author><text>I think Andy is missing the point of the Oatmeal comic. It&apos;s not that people want the content right then and there. That&apos;s a minor part in the larger picture: acquiring content illegally is a better experience than acquiring it legally.  
Let&apos;s say I purchased season one on bluray, and just as I was coming home from the store my friend gave me a thumb drive with the torrented files on it. I wouldn&apos;t even open the shrink wrap. If the bluray disc gets scratched, I no longer have access to my content; I can back up the files on the thumb drive though. If I want to watch an episode, I have to sit through commercials on the bluray that I purchased; I can watch them immediately off the thumb drive though. If I want to project using a vga cable, I may run into content protection issues; the files on the thumb drive will work just fine though.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s not a matter of cost or wait time. It&apos;s that torrent networks provide a better, faster, easier, more portable, and simpler experience than the legal way.</text></comment>
<story><title>HBO Decides It Still Isn&apos;t Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120418/08405618545/hbo-decides-it-still-isnt-difficult-enough-to-watch-hbo-shows.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guccimane</author><text>Andy Ihnatko about Oatmeal about difficulty of watching Game of Thrones: &lt;a href=&quot;http://ihnatko.com/2012/02/20/heavy-hangs-the-bandwidth-that-torrents-the-crown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ihnatko.com/2012/02/20/heavy-hangs-the-bandwidth-that...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>PureSin</author><text>Oatmeal about difficult of watching Game of Thrones: &lt;a href=&quot;http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;and how I feel as a non US resident: 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://theoatmeal.com/pl/game_of_thrones/nz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://theoatmeal.com/pl/game_of_thrones/nz&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rickmb</author><text>Which is a typical way of reversing the argument. The whole point of copyright and the free market is to do exactly that: to have as the end result consumers that can get what they want at an affordable price whilst allowing the original creators to make a living.&lt;p&gt;Copyright violation is not &quot;sin&quot; like theft, respecting it depends entirely on actually making it work. If copyright is the only thing that actually stands in the way of that, it is being abused.&lt;p&gt;To paraphrase the author: &lt;i&gt;The world doesn&apos;t OWE the copyright owners enforcement at any cost.&lt;/i&gt; If you can&apos;t distribute it under your 100% terms, you have the free-and-clear option of not publishing it at all.</text></comment>