Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » TorrentFreak http://pulse2.com Sun, 27 May 2012 19:13:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Fox’s Eight-Day Delays Lead to Huge Spike in Torrenting http://pulse2.com/2011/08/22/foxs-eight-day-delays-lead-to-huge-spike-in-torrenting/ http://pulse2.com/2011/08/22/foxs-eight-day-delays-lead-to-huge-spike-in-torrenting/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:21:27 +0000 Riley Kennysmith http://pulse2.com/?p=50375 Continue reading →]]>

Fox has been sticking to its eight-day delay guns for a week now, and the company’s future already looks grim. As anyone with half a brain predicted, when faced with an eight-day delay to popular programming, consumers respond by getting their tv illegally. TorrentFreak reports a 114% increase in downloads for Hell’s Kitchen and a 189% increase in downloads for MasterChef, which had its season finale this week. The episodes used to be available next-day on Hulu, but Fox is now only giving Hulu Plus and Dish Network the next-day privileges.

Fox clearly hoped that the content delay would encourage viewers to either watch the programs live or shell out for Hulu Plus, and foolishly ignored the reality of online piracy of their shows. Some consumers went straight to torrents, while others flocked to youtube uploads of the shows. What Fox fails to realize is that some shows beg to be watched immediately, and very few people are willing to spend extra money on something that can be had for free. [GigaOM]

]]> http://pulse2.com/2011/08/22/foxs-eight-day-delays-lead-to-huge-spike-in-torrenting/feed/ 0 List Of April Fools Pranks 2009 On The Web, Reddit Tops All Of Them http://pulse2.com/2009/04/01/list-of-april-fools-pranks-2009-on-the-web-reddit-tops-all-of-them/ http://pulse2.com/2009/04/01/list-of-april-fools-pranks-2009-on-the-web-reddit-tops-all-of-them/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:41:57 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=13459 Continue reading →]]> reddigg
1. Google gave us CADIE, upside down YouTube videos, and GMail autopilot.
2. TorrentFreak told us that Warner Brothers plans to acquire The Pirate Bay.
3. Arrington announced that he is looking for a date from readers and that General Mills has acquired CrunchGear.
4. CenterNetworks announced the CN51 Startup Conference.
5. SocialBlade claims they cracked the Digg algorithm.
6. The Guardian claims they are killing print version of their site and is going Twitter only.
7. Woot.com is selling a bag of crap for $3.00 and $1 million shipping.
8. Opera announced face-gestured web browsing.
9. Car and Driver is reporting that President Obama wants “a complete withdrawal from America’s premier racing series is expected to save more than $250 million between GM and Chrysler, a substantial amount considering the drastic measures being implemented elsewhere.”
10. Qualcomm stated that their convergence program has implemented tiny base stations into thousands of pigeons. They also stated that these are no ordinary pigeons but a hybrid wolfpigeon.
11. SlideShare told their users that they are Rockstars.
12. Funny or Die wrote that they have been acquired by Reba McEntire and is now called RebaOrDie.com.
13. AOL Radio was considering playing Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up all over AOLRadio.com.
14. Amazon.com launches brand new cloud computing service called Floating Amazon Cloud Environment (FACE).

More to be added as they are discovered…

These were all good, but I think out of all them, Reddit had the best April Fools prank. They replaced their entire user interface to look just like Digg as you will notice in the above screen shot.

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