Chris

Good talk.

Wow! You don't say? I genuinely think it's cool you've cast yourself as Robin Hood here. It takes some mental gymnastics, but it's kinda good to know that just because something isn't a physical, tangible product and exists in a digital realm that it makes it fair game to be stolen. Oh as well as licensing its content to Sky in the UK and Ireland, HBO has its own networks in: Canada, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile, Colombia, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, Spain, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hong Kong and the Philippines.

You heard it here first folks. The Global Phenomenon That Is Game Of Thrones was only made for American TV and just happened to catch on.

Hosting large amounts of content on servers for on-demand streaming also costs money.

There's really no excuse for it in this climate. All of the content is available relatively affordably, contract free, meaning you don't have to commit to anything. You wanna blitz GOT? Do a month of Now TV. Built up a bunch of Netflix originals you haven't seen? Switch it out for a month. The only way I'd advocate for the illegal streaming is if there's a show you're unable to get due to licensing restrictions, but that's rarer and rarer these days. You're not "sticking it to Murdoch." You're sticking it to fellow humans who he'll charge more in order to make up the difference.

No different to walking into HMV and robbing the box sets, but rationalise it however you want. Like saying you bought 4 Xbox games from them, so that entitles you to steal everything else you want.

Streams are inherently behind the TV feed. It's just the nature of the beauty at this stage. It's getting better. During the World Cup I found my YouTube TV stream in the US was only around the broadcast TV feed. But in terms of convenience Now TV is great. Allows you to duck in and out when you want, is reliable, picture quality FAR outstrips any pirated stream and you don't have to deal with ads, malware and them constantly cutting off in the middle of games.

Or don't because that means everyone else has to pay more for the content.

You don't have to pay £25 at all, to my knowledge. It's £7.99 a month for Entertainment Pass (HBO content from Sky Atlantic, etc.) and then £9.99 for the Cinema Pass (Sky Movies et al.) per month. Is there some kind of intro offer or something?

Fox, after their initial shock and criticism, has come up with its line now. Apparently he's keeping his friends close, but his enemies closer.

Apparently it's not even remotely real.

As is so often the case in documentaries about the wrestling industry, Vince McMahon does not come across well. For anyone who hasn't seen it, I'd heartily recommend Wrestling With Shadows.

I still don't know what a Lionel is.

I'll build a ramp up to your ass...drive a Lionel up in there