You don't need to crack the DRM to upload these to file-sharing sites. Pretty much all TV rips (and even Blu-ray rips) are already double-compressed, so it's not particularly important to get at the raw bitstream. That means that all you need is a "malicious" video card or something to intercept the video-out signal from your computer. (And no, HDCP does not solve anything. It's already broken and anyone willing to pay $150 for a Spartan 6 dev board with HDMI ports on it can remove it.)

Anyway, I'm pretty sure whoever made the decision to go ahead with this model knows that there's going to be piracy. You would have to be living under the world's largest rock to not consider that possibility.

Or you can just fire up something like Fraps and record the show in the browser while you watch it.

Way over thinking it here, there will be _someone_ that sticks a (hopefully mounted) video camera in front of the screen and hit record.

That's a lot of effort for a rip that will make the releasing group the laughingstock of "the scene".

(I giggled the first time someone told me about this, but Wikipedia has an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene)

I was impressed the first time I ran across the scene's standards[0].

[0] http://scenerules.irc.gs/

Try a few hours...

(And a good thing too, since once again there will probably be no way for this non-American to actually buy the damn thing...)

I'm sure it'll happen faster than that

...just like it does for every single other movie and TV show out there.