It is an unstated fact of life that women provide the
nurturing for the men that bring home the bacon.

 

Therefore any potential male suitor needs to know exactly
what the bacon is.

 

Guys, a hint, it’s not a 1979 Holden Monaro with mag wheels
and a 400 decibel stereo anymore.

 

It’s “Hey, I have last nights version of the Vampire Diaries”
(today’s fastest trending Twitter subject)
“which won’t be on channel 9 until the week after next. Do you want me to come
over tonight? And I could bring a six-pack of Cruisers.”

 

That should give a loud hint.

 

Who uses Twitter? The girls. Why? Because they have so much
more to say. The average female emotes 7,000 words per day whilst the average
male (if allowed ) speaks 2,000 words per day.

 

The girls want Vampire Diaries and what the girls want, the
girls usually get.

 

Australian ED2K activity on the Vampire Diaries last week
was 1298 users querying for the file per day.

 

But Koltai it was on Channel nine.

 

Well, yes, but lets have a look to see what the Media blogs say….

 

On Yahoo, they were lamenting what the media still likes to
call “Internet Piracy” although the Yahoo article drew some interesting
conclusions……

 

“Arr! Internet pirates around the world are
plundering Glee and The Vampire Diaries .

The Hollywood Reporter examined the top 100 TV shows on
the Pirate Bay — the controversial website that allows internet users to
download television, movies and music to their heart's content — and found that
these two series are the most pirated new TV shows, along with FlashForward and
The Cleveland Show .”

 

The Hollywood Reporter is a media insider magazine that
regularly reports on P2P downloads as an indicator of a shows popularity,
mainly so media insiders can use this data as an indicator of whether a show
season should be extended or not.

 

The article then explained that persons in countries outside
the USA quite often turned to file-sharing as the only available means of
obtaining content that was FTA in the US but not available in their home
country.

 

Then the article revealed that local Aussie TV station
channel 9 (Go) had fast-tracked the Vampire Diaries for Australian audiences.

 

A quick check on TV Tonight and voila…

 

“September
29, 2009  

If you missed The Vampire Diaries yesterday on GO! (and
with all the content on offer most people did) Nine has suddenly announced it
will air tonight on Nine.

It’s slated for 10:30pm
in place of Little Britain.

Just 147,000 saw the premiere on its two screenings
on GO!

Nine has also added a repeat of The Apprentice Australia
on Wednesday night at 10pm,
on top of repeats already planned this coming weekend.

The Vampire Diaries will also have a replay on GO!
Thursday night at 10:30pm
in place of Side Order of Life.”

 

Of course they missed it Channel 9. There were already three
episodes available by the time you aired the first one. HELLO ???

 

The listing from tvu.org.ru

The Vampire
Diaries – Season 1 c: XviD S: Still Running

Episode Guide

 

So yet again Television is no longer the fastest delivery of
media.

 

It would seem that the girls (who haven’t bothered to join
the Pirate party) still expect their suitors to provide the best entertainment.

 

Of course there are no legal options available.

 

It would seem though that even when there are legal options
available, users still prefer to download their torrents as evidenced in an
article by Eriq Gardner in April this year.

 

Taking the top spot was ABC's “Lost,” a show
that the network has tried to stream for free on its website. Almost 1.8
million downloads for the most recent episode testifies to the fact that many
people want it their way.

 

Although the article was about another US
show, “Chuck” it had some interesting statistics of the most popular downloaded
shows on the Pirate Bay
torrent tracker.

 

So it would appear that whatever the TV, Cable company’s do,
Twitter and the file-sharing community are there ahead of them.

 

TV guys – if you want to reclaim relevancy in the Australian
market – you need to renegotiate those deals to be day/date not deferred.

 

As we all know, the early bird gets the work, or in this
case, the girl.

Channel nine, in case there’s any confusion, you are waaaaay
down the list as regards any possible classification of the word early.

 

P.S.

 

The Yahoo article concluded by saying:

 

“Interestingly, the
Reporter notes that TV shows that are the most downloaded are often the highest
rated, suggesting that internet downloads aren't hurting viewing numbers.

Episodes of some shows,
including The Mentalist and Dexter , have even been leaked to the internet
ahead of their official TV premieres.”

 

We repeated it here verbatim, because we couldn’t have said
it better ourselves.

 

I wonder if that evidence will be presented in the AFACTS
–v- iiNet case?

 

References:

 

Glee, Vampire Diaries are the most pirated new shows

http://au.tv.yahoo.com/news/article/-/article/6128280/glee-vampire-diaries-are-the-most-pirated-new-shows/

 

Vampire Diaries, Apprentice repeats on Nine

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2009/09/vampire-diaries-apprentice-repeats-on-nine.html

 

'Chuck' makes surprise visit to most-pirated TV shows list

http://www.thresq.com/2009/04/chuck-cancelled-most-pirated-tv-shows.html

 

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