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Disney says ABC free web TV a hit
It’s seems the suits at Disney think they have a hit on their hands because: “The ABC.com pilot program in one month outperformed the results Disney has seen in its nine-month partnership with Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes to offer episodes of its hit television shows for download, without commercials, for $1.99 each.”¹
Well duh! What on earth made them think there was a possibility it wouldn’t be? It’s free! But seriously, experience with really asinine corporations and their web sites has shown me that yes, even a web site with content like this would be easy to screw up. For instance:

• they could make the videos non-downloadable

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So okay they totally screwed up a sure fire winner and they don’t even know it. They think it’s a huge success, even though they have presented this wonderful content about as poorly as possible. I’m not sure I can think of any other possible way to screw it up except for one – it could not work at all. I’m sure they have a good number of visitors to the web site and I’m sure they are selling adverts, but they public will soon be done “checking it out” and tire of the problems mentioned above. at least a good portion of them will. They always do.

with unliscened versions of the same content out there that are sooooo much better, most people won’t fool with this much longer. I tried it, and I still prefer to download missed episodes of my shows with bittorrent. Being legal is nice and all, and I don’t even mind commercials but they really screwed up their own content, as large companies are prone to do.