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You're arguing about minutiae in contexts you don't seem to be familiar with. Perhaps things are easier in North America?

In fact, Channel 10 is actually a network.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Ten

Ten's programming is national. I highly doubt they do their in-program advertising on a per-station basis.

The writer wasn't blaming the movie producer for the advertising, and I'm not sure what gave you that impression. He was lamenting the fact that the quality of the viewing has been damaged by broadcasters' greed.

Netflix isn't available in Australia.

I don't want to deal with physical media nor the DRM that entails. I don't want to have to go to a store every time to find something to watch. It's 2011, and I want digital access.

iTunes is really expensive, and only works on the Apple TV or whatever it's called.

Cable on-demand has a shitty selection, and is exorbitantly priced. And the quality sucks (compression to the max!).

I would pay for the convenience of preventing any legal issues posed by pirating content. I would pay for the convenience of high-definition content which I can download from high-speed servers, and be able to watch it on any player I want. I would pay to support future content creation. Such a service isn't available to me. That's the problem.




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