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Hmm, the torrentverse has surprisingly good taste,

> Game of Thrones

> Dexter

> Big Bang Theory

> How I Met Your Mother

> Breaking Bad

> The Walking Dead

> Homeland

Well, except for the last one ;) I kid, I kid.

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Kind of puts the 'make better content and people will pay for it' argument to bed.

Or it could be the type of person who enjoys Big Bang Theory or Game of Thrones is more likely to know how to torrent or stream videos. I imagine that they have a slightly more technical audience than, say, The Voice.

Then again, TBBT and HIMYM are on that list.

TBBT is the only recent comedy I've been enjoying.

Have you watched Community?

I personally can't stand shows with laugh tracks.

Except for a lot of those you can't pay for it in certain countries until the Blu-ray and iTunes releases like 6 months down the road. The argument can be made that those people should just buck up and wait but when everyone is talking about it sometimes that is just not acceptable.

It's not necessarily "make better content" but rather "make a better product", primarily the distribution system.

How exactly do I go about paying for, say, Dexter?

You mean the fourth one.

Heh, I am sure everyone can find one in that list to dislike ;) But I still think the quality of the bittorrent top 7 is surprisingly good, compare to more typical popularity listings:

> Big Bang Theory

> Voice

> X Factor

> NCIS

> Two and a Half Men

> Person of Interest

> Dancing with the Stars

http://www.tvguide.com/top-tv-shows

Those are mostly terrible.

Different people have different tastes. Different demographics have different tastes. Just because the taste of the torrent "pirates" is more like your own taste does not mean it is good and the others are terrible.

Are you arguing that everything has the same quality? Or how are we supposed to argue about quality?

Quality is a very tough concept but we should find ways to tackle it.

How do you define quality? Cheesiness (or lack thereof)? Intellectual depth? Emotional depth? Ease of consumption (the opposite of intellectual depth)? Visual effects?

There are lots of popular movies that many would say have low quality, but score highly in some of the aforementioned categories. Many people I know really liked The Avengers, and loved the scene where The Hulk was tossing around Loki. They can't understand why I disliked the movie, or why was my least favorite scene in the entire show.

I don't know. But we've got to have some kind of scales.

It does mean they are terrible _in my opinion_, though :) My opinion does count for something, just like theirs.

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