MTV to cut down on P2P piracy by offering free South Park downloads
MTV Networks, the biggest division of Viacom Inc. has announced plans to make every South Park episode available online for free as part of a plan to make the show available to a larger audience.
MTV originally based this decision from the success of providing “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” online. Since offering the “Daily Show” videos in October, viewership has been up with no obvious harm to ratings.
“One does not diminish the other by any stretch of the imagination. That is kind of our hat trick,” was said by Judy McGrath the Chairman and Chief Executive at Reuters Media Summit in New York.
Although SouthParkStudios.com, the planned site for this venture, has not uploaded full episodes yet; it has provided clips, games, an avatar maker and other various media from the series.
With the prospect of a bigger viewership and better ratings, Viacom’s MTV Networks have mentioned placing other shows up for free online download as well. Names of the possible shows have not been mentioned, but it is nice to finally see a network starting to implement a way to work with today’s want of free content without the legal repercussions that can come along with P2P sharing.
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December 1st, 2007
I suppose I can find a link to MTV Networks from some other source, don’t trouble yourself to provide a link from your story.
December 1st, 2007
I wonder how the schools will handle this. Will it lead to more school filtering? Like we’ve seen in Australia (and the 14 year old who cracked it).
December 1st, 2007
Dude, ANYONE can get past school filtering. I’ve been doing it since 7th grade, and am currently working on a way to bypass any and all whitelist systems, since my school recently changed to that.
December 1st, 2007
Newstopia spoof on Aussie internet filtering (35 seconds in to the clip):
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=qP23cPkt6Vg
December 1st, 2007
Duuuuuude! DNS poisoning is what you want to look at… Poison a whitelisted site’s DNS address with the address of a site you want to visit…
December 1st, 2007
Matt and Trey have made their position on downloading of South Park episodes quite clear in the past. Its great to see the network getting on board with this. Their careers are based on publicity gained from the internet, and the public should go after people like Mark Cuban who only seek to rip us all off and shit on us at the same time.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/South+Park+libertarians:+Trey+Parker+and+Matt+Stone+on+liberals,…-a0154390965
December 1st, 2007
So I’m guessing they’re not bothered about selling DVDs any more… fair enough.
December 1st, 2007
DVDs have more resolution and offer additional content, I see this as a good thing.
December 2nd, 2007
I know for a fact people buy movies even when they have the download of it just for the extra content, or even just for the sake of having the DVD
December 2nd, 2007
Exactly – people buy stuff for fun. It has nothing to do with extra content, or higher quality. We buy stuff cause it makes us feel good. Then we put it on the shelf and forget about it.
December 2nd, 2007
Spot on, lk!
December 2nd, 2007
You’re a retard lk!
December 2nd, 2007
It’s in fucking gay windows media crap format, useless to 20% of the fucking planet, r-tards
December 2nd, 2007
Nobody who is smart buys stuff because it makes them “feel good.” If you do, I’ll wave goodbye as natural selection eliminates you from the gene pool. This is a good move as long as they don’t try to inject adds into the video. I’ll be damned if I’m gonna watch adds just to stay “legal.”
December 14th, 2007
Okay… so does this make it legal to download seasons/episodes of South Park? Or does it only give us the convenience of watching them online? If downloading is legal, can anyone direct me to one of those sites? Thanks!
January 7th, 2008
PIRACY RULEZ! PIR8 UR MOVIEZ AND FAV..MUSIC
PhuCk Da MPAA/ANTI-PIRACY GROUPS
March 11th, 2010
I cant agree with everyone who thought it was time for big movies like this. I do prefer some of the more classic stuff that is still around but I am growing more fond of some of the latest releases. I am a bit old fashioned at heart but I am sure there are some great movies still to come from Hollywood.