numbbaby (Level 8)

Woke up this morning and they weren't lying...Instant Queue is a little smaller now, not in a good way.

@rem25: Sounds like you've got close to 20 hours of stuff to watch this weekend. Good luck!

@FinalDasa: I don't know about 'definitive list,' but the one I've found fairly accurate in the past is from "FeedFliks":

http://feedfliks.com/streaming/expiring-soon

Also a good place for what's coming up on Instant. I thought, with the loss of Starz content, they would step up and premiere lots of newer-ish stuff in March to fill the blanks. Going from this list (not sure how complete it is), that doesn't seem the case, but I know these deals must take forever to set up:

http://feedfliks.com/streaming/coming-soon

I noticed what must be all of the Starz Channel broken deal cast-aways marked in my Instant Queue as "Until 2/29/12." Let's see...as far as my biggest, I'm losing "Tangled," Party Down" and "Tron: Legacy."

What's your biggest loss coming soon? Are you going to have a big "Instant Viewing Party" this weekend...and this weekend only?

(But, as a side note, "Being Elmo" was just added and that looks cool.)

I don't care if professional critics get screeners. I don't see anything wrong if professional critics see free movie previews or even pirate an episode or two of a show they missed. But a professional critic site can't make it Standard Operating Procedure to plan on illegally downloading the entire current season of several shows to replace cable, legal downloads or other normal means of watching TV. That's the take-away I had of Screened from how piracy was being mentioned over the entirety of all the podcasts (which I've listened to since day 1). If that implication is wrong, then I couldn't be happier.

@Rorie said:

And now I will go back to writing video scripts at 4 in the morning.

Rorie, I love all your hard work and all of your content, premium and otherwise. I always have. And that's why I'll always be a Whiskey Media premium member and never pirate your content, because I want you to get paid for your good work and not scam it for free.

@Wandering_Idiot: If you've been listening to their podcasts for a long while you have heard them talk about downloading TV illegally. I'm not reading anything into it or reading between the lines or confusing it for an iTunes download. They've said as much.

They're great guys and I love their site, GB and Whiskey Media in general, I wouldn't be a Premium Member otherwise. But it occurred to me that I would immediately lose all respect for GB if they downloaded pirated games...so why I wouldn't feel the same way about Screened and illegal current TV or movie downloads.

@Buckwatters said:

I don't think emulating old arcade games is equivalent to pirating "Bioshock: Infinite" on day one, not even close.

Sorry I wasn't more clear; I fully agree with MAME being far, far more acceptable as the games really don't have any further revenue stream essentially. I was saying that I think GB is great and I don't care if they talk about MAME at all, and that they are respectable/professional enough to never download a new game day one.

@Mistress_Redhead: Only season 1 is on Netflix. This was about the current season, and the implication was pretty clear.

I've always found the off-handed remarks about the constant pirating of current episodic TV on Screened's podcast to be a bit off putting, but a sign of the times I suppose. But in a recent podcast, Rorie mentioned that he had downloaded the latest "Walking Dead" episode, then in almost the same sentence bemoaned how bad it is that the show's budget was cut and it has fewer set pieces/zombies in it.

Can this be seen as anything other than complete hypocrisy? You all know how TV/movies are a business; I won't bore you with that. And I know pirating is easy to do.

I've heard Giant Bomb talk about MAME and other sources of emulation, and personally I feel different about media that is hard or even impossible to get otherwise, where further revenue for the creators would be almost impossible to come by. What they don't do is talk about downloading a cracked "Bioshock Infinite" the day it comes out; if they did, I wouldn't be a Premium Member and I would never read or trust the site.

Would Whiskey Media be cool with me revoking my Premium Membership and then just using ad blockers and cracking all of the premium content? I've tried it, it's easy. Then I could even complain about how shoddy the production values on the premium content are.

How is this different again?