Guys, here's the deal. There are a lot of things in this world that don't seem right that they're illegal. Take the white Sony PSP for example. It's amazing looking, but you can only buy it in Japan. Can't get one in Europe or the USA. Let me tell you a story about a company called Lik-Sang. Lik-Sang decided to import the white PSP and sell it to people who wanted them in the US and Europe. People thought it was great, and Lik-Sang made a lot of money. Sony decided it wasn't so great, so they sued Lik-Sang over it. Technically what Lik-Sang was doing was illegal. This is the result:
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Lik-Sang.com Out of Business due to Multiple Sony Lawsuits
Tue Oct 24 2006 21:58:51 Hong Kong Time - Corporate Info
OUT OF BUSINESS NOTICE
Hong Kong, October 24th of 2006 - Lik-Sang.com, the popular gaming retailer from Hong Kong, has today announced that it is forced to close down due to multiple legal actions brought against it by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Sony claimed that Lik-Sang infringed its trade marks, copyright and registered design rights by selling Sony PSP consoles from Asia to European customers, and have recently obtained a judgment in the High Court of London (England) rendering Lik-Sang's sales of PSP consoles unlawful.
Lik-Sang is no more. If it were legal for me to provide direct downloads to past episodes of Heroes I would do it. NBC's been very cool about not pulling the videos that are out there on YouTube & Google Video, but technically they are still illegal. So this leaves me in a quandry. While I want to provide you all with the very best resources for Heroes available, I also don't want to end up like Lik-Sang if NBC decides to one day change their minds. This means that links to illegal downloads, torrents, and site showing full episodes of Heroes have to be removed when found. Like Byd said, you can find them if you look. You can also support the show, cast, and crew by downloading past episodes from iTunes (no commercials!). This is an unpopular position that I have to hold, but I would rather be unpopular in this regard than to have you one day come to superhiro.org and find a DMCA notice saying the site has been shut down.
In regards to the YouTube clips in the videos forums: these clips are not hosted locally but are hosted on YouTube and then embedded here. If NBC decides they want them gone, they will go to YouTube and *poof* they will no longer be viewable anywhere. This has already happened once before with a show made popular by its YouTube audience.
You don't even have to download them on NBC site you can just watch and they have all of them.
If they have all of them, they sure don't make them easy to find. They have stills from every episode under the episodes link, but I've only been able to stream the most recent episode and preview from their site.
You can get every episode individually from the iTunes store:
Heroes, season one
I want to see the pilot, but I can't find it. I refuse to watch it illegally (like I refuse to download music illegally). I don't mind being forced to watch commercials. I hope NBC makes it available on their website again.
I want to see the pilot, but I can't find it. I refuse to watch it illegally (like I refuse to download music illegally). I don't mind being forced to watch commercials. I hope NBC makes it available on their website again.
Once you set up an account, you can buy songs for $0.99 or television episodes for $1.99. And movies for something like $9.99 or so. I don't remember the movie price.
For eleven years (till they laid off my azz this February) I worked for a biz that duplicated audio, video, and disc. We refused to copy copyrighted material. We were a small biz and didn't feel like taking that chance.
Boy, that didn't seem to stop people from still trying to get us to do it, or even getting mad about it!
You can make copies at home for your own use, but you can't give it away.
You can't get paid fro them, either. SO, we weren't going to do it for free, or get in trouble.
I figure if it's on YouTube maybe it's OK. Notice that when Google bought YouTube, they did a mass beleted, I mean delete!
What kind of quality are the TV episodes on there, if anyone has experience with it?