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Originally Posted by moeloubani
No you're right it is available eventually for example Game of Thrones comes on sale on the 6th of March but that's a year after it first started. Between now and then there was literally no way at all for me to watch the show, no service where I could pay for it online or anything. Even HBO.com doesn't have the option for me. I guess I could have used my computer to record it myself when it first came out and then just watched those but really what's the difference? There's still no way for me to watch it online by the way so I would have to wait till March 6th order the DVD/Bluray and then watch it then.
Look at music and iTunes it wasn't long after iTunes started that people realized it was just easier to buy on iTunes than to download illegally. There is no such thing for TV shows which really sucks.
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It does suck that it takes that long to get it, but you can't really say that you would pay for it if you could because you can pay for it, you just have to wait a while. What you mean is there is no way for you to pay for it right now.
Waiting can suck, but what a lot of these companies do is use the hype and good reviews that a show like Game of Thrones generated when it played on HBO to build up a demand for it then in places where it didn't air they sell it on DVD and people buy it. If people download it then they likely are not going to buy it when it is available on DVD so even though the show isn't available for you to buy when it is in first run, downloading it can potentially hurt value of the show and the sales of the show.
Do you get HBO where you live and it just wasn't aired there, or is HBO not at all available?