Comments on: American Idol Wants Torrent Users Kicked Off the Internet

By: Anrito

Anrito — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:16:40 +0000

I’m from Bulgaria and i am a huge fan of American Idol. But my only way to watch this show is by downloading it from the internet. I know that this is not good but here i can’t watch programs from USA so i hope that in the future i still can watch it. This is the only one show in the hole world that everyone around the world have to watch.
I hope that many people will be agree with me.

By: SteverB

SteverB — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:46:11 +0000

The toothpaste is out of the tube and for Cohen to suddenly want to push it back in because audience and revenues are down is all kinds of garbage. This desperate attempt at reining in the “bad guys” that download the show worldwide will go nowhere. I’m sure Cohen wants a lot of things (like people in hell want ice water), but that doesn’t mean that he’s going to get them.

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:50:26 +0000

I agree, Lauren, Minzbonbon and Baptists. I find this pretty unfortunate given the global popularity of the show they are even considering this. They don’t want to make it easy for you to watch Carrie Underwood rise to fame but they expect you to want to buy her album when she wins the show. Not cool (or smart).

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:30:21 +0000

I’m in Australia, and suffering the same situation. American Idol used to be on free-to-air television here, about a year or so after it aired in America. Now they’ve picked it up on cable, but cable’s not one of those things most people in Australia have. So basically I torrent or I don’t watch it at all. If I had a choice to just watch it like the Americans, I would. But I don’t. It sounds like the producers will alienate a whole global audience if they end up enforcing this.

By: Minzbonbon

Minzbonbon — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:24:46 +0000

I`m from Germany, and i`m in the same situation like Baptiste.
I have no oter choice to watch it somewhere else.

By: Baptiste

Baptiste — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:20:17 +0000

I watch AI from France so I have no choice but to download the show… And I’d be pretty sad to have to stop watching it because my internet gets cut off…

By: Shellfish

Shellfish — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:11:18 +0000

AI.com now has the performance videos for free starting 2 days or so later. So it meets my need to rewatch w/o having to FF to the performances. I can’t blame them if they want the web hits instead of youtube and so on.

By: Sara Bonds

Sara Bonds — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:28:52 +0000

I have AI set to record in my DVR. So, even if I am not home, I can watch it back later. For music I subscribe to Rhapsody. I refuse to use itunes for music or shows, because I already pay for cable. Why in the world would I pay dollars at a time to have a song. Weird. Rhapsody is a cheap monthly payment to listen to pretty much anything in the world I could want to. I would imagine kids who download videos or songs, though, do it because they love the show. If I were a musician I would want as many people to hear me as possible. As for the producers, how are they losing money from people downloading the show to watch? They make the same amount of money. The same amount of people are paying for cable. Don’t they want as many people as possible to see the show?

By: SparkleMirror

SparkleMirror — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:17:01 +0000

Pay for an Idol performance on iTunes? The first time I saw they were charging for the competition performances, my jaw dropped. I would never… and I don’t torrent either.