I cover The Clone Wars a lot. Many, many people come here to read news about the show, interviews with the creators and voices,
iovSoft Blu-ray Ripper, ripping Blu-ray movies ind, and my opinions about the episodes. And by far and away, the question I get asked most often is “What website can I watch The Clone Wars on?”
I don’t like that question because I know that what they’re really asking is: “Where can I download it, I can’t find a torrent.”
I always politely tell them that it’s available the next morning on iTunes for a small fee in glorious HD and that’s far and away the best place to watch it. After that, the two most recent episodes are available on StarWars.com for free. And then I remind them (with links to Amazon!) that the first two seasons are available on DVD and
Blu-ray Ripper.
To my mind, piracy is wrong. I want to watch this show through legitimate means to support it as best I can and I want others to do the same.
Sometimes, there’s nothing that can be done about it,
Freely convert video files between any two of the, though, as wrong as it is. Take for instance the Season Finale of The Clone Wars. The first half of it has already aired in the UK. Can you imagine how many links that have been sent to me to download this episode? It’s everywhere. And can you blame people for wanting to see it as soon as possible? This is hands down the best show on television and we’re teased over and over again with it. And it’s not like the presentation suffers from
Blu-ray cloner all that much. I’ve been offered HD quality video and my cable isn’t even HD.
But it begs the question, why aren’t they coordinating the air dates around the world to be the same day? That single thing will prevent piracy more than anything.
But that’s not exactly what I wanted to talk about. I wanted to talk about the disparity in timezones in our modern Internet culture and why I’m canceling my Comcast (Xfinity?) cable subscription.