08:41 – The penultimate episode of Heartland series six was broadcast Sunday evening. Yesterday morning, I BitTorrented the SD version, just in case. The HD version usually isn’t available until late Monday or early Tuesday morning. It’s available this morning, and I’m sucking it down as I write this. As always, to stay completely legal, I keep my upload speed set to 0.00 and just leech the torrent.
Unfortunately, this is the only way we can get the series in a timely manner. I do wish that the series producers would join the 21st century and sell HD copies of the series for immediate download. I’d have happily paid them, say, $15 for a license to do that, which is a whole lot more than they make from selling a DVD boxed set. Heck, I’d happily pay them $15 right now in advance for series seven. So would many other people, I suspect. The series is immensely popular, not just in Canada and the US, but in the UK, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, and elsewhere.