In the computer industry, there two types of people. Engineers (these are the people with clue) and salesman, (usually the ones with no clue).

Hollywood wonder why people download from file-sharing networks to fulfill their entertainment requirements.

“I have no idea Mr. President. That is why we need stronger legislation and higher penalties.

Well Hollywood, here is some clue.

The other day I came across the Life site.

http://www.nbc.com/Life/exclusives/conspiracy_theories/

So I thought I’d see if I could buy the series on DVD.

Yep, on the 13^th of December, 2009, I could, according to the site buy the complete DVD boxed set of Series one. Um….. series one was in 2007.

So I thought I would check to see when the DVD was made available on the ED2K networks.

DVD 01 XviD Life - Season 1 (DVDRip) Complete 2007        2008-08-21 16:31

And…. Surprise surprise….On the ED2K nwetworks, the second season DVD rip was already available.

DVD 02 XviD Life - Season 2 (DVDRip) Complete 2008        2009-08-11 20:53

Yet according to the NBC – it’s not available yet.

Amazon of course managed to restore my faith.

Buy Episode $1.99
Buy Season 2 $33.99

So Season two is available on DVD but NBC can’t even be bothered to update their website.

A little Click here to buy Series two on DVD or download from Amazon.

Is all that was needed.

So let me see NBC. You made the show. You want to sell it to me. But you’re too lazy or lacking in sufficient clue to give me a clue as to where I can get it from.

Hmmm.  Shame because at $33.99 US dollars, it’s cheaper to buy it on DVD, pay the postage than to download it Australian broadband prices, even if I was to bag the low-fi version at only 352 Mb per episode. That would still equal nearly 8 GB which is only 2 GB short of my monthly 10GB prime time quota. (Cost? 80% of $49.95 equals $39.96 AUD.)  The cost of the DVD? $37.25 AUD.

Pardon? Did you say there is no DVD?

Oh, it’s available only for digital download.

At $1.99 per episode and the $33.99 is for 22 episodes.

Oh. Is it available for Australians to download?

Oh. Not released yet as per the comments (comment is about Stargate SG1 but applies equally to this series.)

(http://www.amazon.com/tag/amazon%20video%20on%20demand/forum/ref=cm_cd_dp_rt_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdThread=Tx120TGRC2TW3FA)

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only for people in the usa?

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Initial post: Dec 2, 2009 11:43 PM PST

 will says:

iv'e had a look at stargate sg1 season 9 and when it starts playing a message comes up that i can't use video on demand. so if i can't watch it streaming i can't download it? iv'e bought it in australia on dvd the only problem is the the thing that holds the disks caused a break on the last disk so i haven't seen the last three episodes and there's no repeats shown of stargate sg1 on australian tv creates problems trying to watch episodes of shows that you haven't seen or the delays waiting for new episodes of current shows to come on in australia currently waiting for the star wars the clone wars season 2 to come on in australia

 Engelsstaub says:

As an American I'd like to say that I'm sorry to hear this. It seems problems such as this are common with region-coding and other prohibitive measures. It seems movie and television studios in the U.S. can be a real pain when releasing content to the rest of the world. I don't think this situation is common solely to Amazon. The copyright holders are likely to blame; they want their product released on "their" time in other regions. One would think it would not be too difficult to coordinate a simultaneous release in all of the lands in which English is spoken! (They could slightly delay for countries as France and Germany to catch up on subtitling or voice-over.)

It sucks, I know. They want to enforce their copyrights in Australia and Europe but leave honest people little choice but to download illicitly. I'm not suggesting one do that, but it they did I could not blame them. They're not providing the product or getting any money anyway.

I hear you on the DVD/CD disc-retaining things. (I don't know what they are called properly either.) If you have an X-Box 360 or something like that this will not happen. It is due to wear caused by the spindles on drives like the ones that retain the disc on a portable CD player or a slim-line laptop drive. They tend to stress this plastic each time a disc is snapped into place. That's what causes the hair-line cracks that keep growing into the ROM areas rendering our discs useless and the data irretrievable.

I wish you luck in finding the content you are searching for. Hopefully here soon. Amazon is a decent service and usually the first place I go to find cool stuff. Peace.

So there it is.

Not available in Australia and if it was you would still have to download it at an incredible additional cost increasing the price to roughly $4.00 per episode.

And on the subject of the No DVD – someone managed to buy a copy. They ripped it. All 22 episodes – the TVU reference didn’t say Webrip or Digital RIP it said:

DVD 02 XviD Life - Season 2 (DVDRip) Complete 2008        2009-08-11 20:53

Maybe it’s only Amazon that doesn’t have the DVD’s.

As I said at the beginning.

No (as in ><) Clue.