Originally Posted by GatorB

Well NBC has thing called NBC Direct which actually allows you to download episodes onto your PC for later viewing even offline. Obviously you can only watch the videos for a limited time. I believe it's 30 days for most shows. But let's face it that's plenty of time to watch it. So why wouldn't you just download a NBC show from NBC.com, that way they WOULD know exactly how popular a show is? I know the reason. The reason is because with a torrent you get to keep the copy forever and it's free. Because let's face it $2( $3 for HD ) is sooooo much money to spend. The fact is this isn't a few years ago. There are PLENTY of LEGAL and FREE ways to catch up on a missed episode of a show without having to use a torrent. The differnce as I said you don't get to KEEP the episode. And face it if you like the episode that much that you just have to have it, guess what, it's worth the $2-$3 then.