So, Who's Got the Remote Control? Now They Can Watch the Latest Episode of Lost Over the Internet or Download a Movie Recommended by a Myspace Friend, 16 to 24-Year-Olds Are Turned Off Tv . . . And Broadcasters Are Worried

Sunday Herald › August 21, 2006

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IN cyberspace, no-one ever has to wait six months for the latest episode of 24 or Lost to make its way to British television screens.

Miles Jacobson, a 34-year-old games executive, routinely orders entire boxed sets of US programmes from the internet months before they are shown in the UK.

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So, Who's Got the Remote Control? Now They Can Watch the Latest Episode of Lost Over the Internet or Download a Movie Recommended by a Myspace Friend, 16 to 24-Year-Olds Are Turned Off Tv . . . And Broadcasters Are Worried

Those episodes that have not yet made it to DVD he watches on the web via an American friend's slingbox, a gadget that sits on a television and broadcasts the signal over the internet anywhere in the world.

Either way, Jacobson has avoided watching any UK channels a depressing prospect for those hoping to profit from US imports.

Worse news still, thousands of others will have merely downloaded an illeg...

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