Let’s acknowledge the existence of piracy for a moment. It’s real and there are tools to make it easy.
One such tool is called TVShows. We don’t advocate or defend piracy, but we will confess gobs of interest in the idea behind this app. Instead of you constantly searching for your favorite shows by hand, TVShows steps in and automates the process, automatically searching for and downloading serial shows as they air.
Let’s take a closer look at how it works. This walkthrough assumes you already use a BitTorrent client (we recommend Transmission).
For Mac. If you own Apple products, you have money to burn so you can afford to pay for all your tv shows. Bust em all :p
It is a very nice idea, if it worked for windows. I still believe that when you pay or a tv service you should be able to download the shows to watch at your leisure without having to pay the ridiculously high DVR fees. I know they complain about commercials being cut out so they should rethink the way they suck money from people for everything we have to pay for just to get the programming and then rethink how they suck money from advertisers and then again from the broadcasters to just get their show out there.
Has anyone really thought about these processes? seriously. Pay a small fortune to make tv shows, get money from advertisers to pay for it (or part of it), charge the broadcasters a fee just to carry the channel that has the show, broadcasters charge a small fortune to end users to watch the show on equipment they had to buy or rent. So, if Comcrap and directv/dish would tell the channels to kiss their behinds and drop the channels unless they lowered the fees by 80%, what would they do? Would be a very interesting thing to see since without the broadcasters the stations are worthless.
I was going to say about end users telling the companies to bite it but I know, deep down, to many people are to tied to their tv’s to take a stand and they are too lazy to do it.