Break This: Watching Commercials

I think it is time to stop watching TV. Don't think I'm advocating missing the next episode of "Lost" or "The Office". I am saying that we have wasted way too much time watching the commercials that TV networks give us during our favorite shows, when we could just be watching the shows themselves. Sure there are a lot of good services online that provide TV content to your computer, but most of them still have online ads or don't let you view the show in full screen.



My solution to the problem? Torrents. We don't need to spend an hour watching our favorite shows when they only take 45 minutes. And we want to be able to watch the shows when we want to. Downloading the episodes via torrent not only give you great quality video of your favorite shows, but you can watch them whenever you want. Is this legal? Of course it is. Why? Because the network publicly broadcasts the show to everyone, and anyone with a VCR or computer with a capture card can record it. Ergo, recording a public broadcast for later use is perfectly legit.


To get you started you can download uTorrent a very popular and very good torrent manager. Then you download the torrent files from eztv.it, the largest collection of HD recorded TV shows. Just download the file, which will be opened by uTorrent and the program will download the show directly where you want it. It's a sinch!

So go out there and actually enjoy your favorite TV shows!