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Re:Startup idea list by danw on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @02:37PM (#56433)
TVRss + Miro (formerly democracy) or utorrent, tutorial here http://lifehacker.com/software/bittorrent/hack-attack-get-yo.... You might also want to check out TV-links.co.uk if you prefer convenience over quality. As for a legal option, no idea, joost?
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Re:Startup idea list by sbraford on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @04:24PM (#56488)
Yes but the UIs are still horrible.

Someone needs to make something so easy a retarted monkey could use the thing and probably not even realize "torrents" were powering the thing.

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Re:Startup idea list by danw on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @06:07PM (#56540)
TV-links is far from horrible, click the show you want and start watching.

Torrents are a non-starter for regular users. Download a .torrent file from one of many tracker sites and open it with the client on your computer is simply too many steps and it's too different from the experience on limewire etc.

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Re:Startup idea list by dcurtis on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @07:50PM (#56572)
tv-links isn't a horrible experience, but the quality is horrible compared to the dvd-rip and hd-rips that are available abundantly on torrent sites.
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