With the release last week of the BBC Trust’s provisional findings into the proposed iPlayer on demand service, there has been a lot of focus in the places where I hang out online on the market impact of downloads and piracy.
After several attempts over the last few months, I resigned myself to the fact that I was never going to be online long enough to BitTorrent down the Season 2 box sets of ‘Lost’ and ‘Desperate Housewives’. Realising that the thrid series of both were beginning to air, and that the length of time we could go without encountering spoilers for both was limited, I finally bit the bullet and bought them both for my wife’s birthday present.
We have 30 evenings left between now and when we next leave for the UK, and so with 24 episodes each we should have enough TV to watch between then and now. Although if we continue “binge-watching” in the way we’ve started out – two episodes of each show an evening – we’ll have the whole thing done by the middle of next week.
So, for me, it was an interesting reflection on some of the things going on in the UK about downloading music and TV shows, and in OFCOM’s findings about the BBC’s proposed iPlayer.
