Today's whine
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | Permalink
As I touched on briefly in my piracy
post on piracy, we live in a globalized world and regionalizing digital products makes absolutely no sense in this time and age. This is not something that the average broadcast corporation understands, but some do. Or did. It's with great disappointment I see that Comedy Central has now implemented geofiltering, the perhaps most ironic and moronic kind of technology ever invented, so now my favorite show The Daily Show with John Stewart is no longer "available" in my "area". What they are hoping to achieve with this is beyond my comprehension. What the result is going to be is obvious though, their shows will get a smaller audience, and those who care enough will pirate it. And the pirated versions are of course stripped from all the commercials, the bread and butter of broadcasting corporations.
Oh well, in another 10-15 years the average CEO will be of my generation. By then I hope this kind of nonsense finally comes to an end.
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