You no longer have to pirate that new episode of your favorite CW show. Keyword: have. The CW has decided to shorten the delay of uploading new episodes of its series to its website online (CWTV.com). What previously was a 75 hour window will now become just 8 hours, the same amount of time it takes to receive a new episode on iTunes or Hulu Plus. The difference, of course, being that CWTV.com episodes are free to stream but contain the same amount of ads, while iTunes contains no ads and has better quality, and Hulu Plus contains fewer ads and better quality.
This, according to Variety, is an attempt to battle piracy. The CW execs found that an average of 20% of all online streaming of its shows were pirated — and reached highs of 29% for The Vampire Diaries and Gossip Girl. But they’re hoping that by shortening the delay of availability, the piracy levels will drop. They’re basing their judgements on a quiet study they did in four markets beginning last fall where they made episodes available 8 hours after airing and found no decrease in ratings, but did find more traffic to CWTV.com. What they fear, however, is for piracy levels to be unaffected, and having ratings drop; while the online streams contain the same amount of ads as the TV airing, they get most of their revenue from TV — and ratings for the network are already lower than their liking. However, the audience for The CW is reportedly younger than any of the other major broadcast networks, meaning piracy for The CW is a much greater problem.
This is just one of the many grandiose changes new CW prez Mark Pedowitz has enacted; the first being making series available on Hulu Plus and Netflix, which finally brought the network in the black.
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Dude, I live outside of the US. :) And if I wanted to watch CW shows in my country I'd be at least 3-4 seasons behind the rest.
Or in my case, never!
In my case, after 3 years and with terrible voice-over.
In Brazil its about 3-4 weeks later. But I cant wait.
LOL they practically canceled it in my country, I don't think I can even find it on cable.
lul, i'm in the philippines but i only need to wait two hours you can now put a mustache on my face mr. collado trolololol
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Dude,I live outside the US and If i want to see the Cw series in my country I have to wait 2 weeks after the airing.......and I'll be a lot behind of the rest....
I wish they would do it like HBO where you can pay for the season and watch it as it airs. They could make way more money than with adds or cable and not have to share the profits.