Doctor Who goes back in time to beat TV pirates

I feel like copyright has spawned an entire generation that feels even more entitled than the pirates. Our copyrights are an allowance from society because people feel it is to their benefit to do us a small favor. They are not handed down to me from the Almighty because I'm so awesome for having banged together a Ruby stick and a C stick.

If we want to talk about natural rights, demanding that somebody not view my work until a week later than somebody else just because I feel like making them wait is some of the most absurd entitlement I've ever heard of. Can you imagine a painter standing outside an art gallery stopping Australians from entering? What would you think of that guy?

(This isn't meant as a "Up wit da piratez" screed or whatever. I'm just saying, the more control we exert through our copyrights, the less right I feel we have to call anybody else entitled, because the things we can force people to do through copyright are just ridiculously audacious from a perspective of natural rights.)

> but sometimes I just have to wait.

Not to sound like the whiny whipper-snapper I am, but why do we have to wait? If there were a technical reason for it, that would be one thing, but I have not been convinced that arbitrary restrictions are a good thing.

The one-week delay to keep it in a similar time slot (e.g. Saturday night) makes sense, but not the months that often lapse between shows being aired in different countries. Even if there's re-editing that needs to happen (especially for season N of a show that will be re-aired abroad), why not invest the time/money before the initial release to make sure that it's ready to go in short order after the original, rather than sacrifice market share to the pirates?

>>but sometimes I just have to wait

Not anymore you don't, welcome to the 21st century. Things are instant, information travels at the speed of light. The masses on twitter break stories and start revolutions before mass media can blink. The worlds-a-changin. If content I want is out there, I'll get it.

>>They demand things to be exactly their way

Also, maybe some people demand things to be their way, because they see how their world should be, and they go after it. Accepting the role cast to you in life is NOT the American way. If you see something you don't like, you get up and change it. If you see something you want, you got after it.

(I don't mean for this to sound rude or argumentative, it's just the way I thought it.)

really? huh. I've sold many, many books. (I still have thousands in my father's garage) and I've written a book. When you sell books (that you haven't written) you have the same problem of selling anything else; some people just want to complain, and eh, sometimes my packaging legitimately wasn't great, and sometimes the mail system messes up. It happens. You can't maintain a 100% positive rating; even if you are perfect (and you aren't) some people just don't give 100% ratings. And really, if you think you are perfect? that the five stars are being unfairly denied to you? you should probably look inward. Thinking that you are perfect, I think, reflects an attitude that probably leads to more negative ratings than you would otherwise get.

I don't really see the generational thing, though; some people are just nasty by nature. Others think they can get a better deal by being nasty, but the largest group of potentially nasty people is only nasty to you if they feel you are being nasty to them. And that group is usually fairly easy to calm. (I mean, there will always be the first group, and you can't do anything about that, and the second group is also pretty difficult to deal with. But the third group is where you get numbers, and I think they are pretty okay.)

Really, just showing some humanity and genuinely acknowledging your mistakes almost always disarms the third group (and sometimes the second and first.)

I do feel entitled: entitled to the same access as others without an obvious reason. I don't feel entitled to receive media for free (and am certainly prepared to pay for easy access, i.e. Steam and Netflix) but I honestly don't see the reason content takes so long to get across country borders.

Don't TV columnist get previews anyway or are all TV listings blurbs provided by the producers/distributors?

I'm guessing because it will go out on Saturday in the UK and they want it to be in the same slot elsewhere in the world.

The reality is that the loss of a relatively small number of people who'll watch online ahead of it's screening on TV is a small price to pay for the better viewing figures they'll get on a Saturday evening over a Sunday.

I think they're to be commended for doing this - it's what we keep saying, make it available legally and most people will use that in preference to torrents and other more questionable mechanisms.

Demographics and such, probably. The people watching TV Saturday evening aren't the same as on Sunday evening, IIRC.

I'm pretty sure that all non-UK stations normally air things a week after they are aired on BBC, it just happens that the first episode of this season is bumped forward a bit for BBC America. I'm not saying this isn't weird, just pointing out that this happens for everywhere, not just Australia.

They show it at primetime - 7:30 Saturday. You can watch it free on iView just a bit after the BBC gets it, though.

I wanted to hate him at first, he looked goofy, but he's a brilliant doctor and the second he said "bowties are cool" he became my favorite doctor thus far, though I find a way to love each one.

Season 6 just really felt like they said "Lets try and target our demographics." There was a lot less science, it was much more earth-centric, and the level of hand-waving was obscene.