Just a little correction: IIRC YES moved StarWorld to channel 270. (Just a little FYI to all the Trekkies out there :) ).
On Thursday 18 January 2007 12:13, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > In case you haven't been following the English press, both HOT and YES > have dropped English language channels. This has caused an uproar among > the English speaking (aka Anglo) community here. > > I was interviewd by a reporter for Haaretz, and also commented in my blog, > that now that people were angry at both they would be changing the way > they spent their entertainment shequels. I also commented that anyone > who had an Internet connection would quickly find out that they > could bootleg the programs for free without YES or HOT and this would > really clog the Internet. > > While I did not tell her how to bootleg the programs, as assuming I > did know how, it would not be appropriate for me to tell anyone. > If someone was interested they would have to find out on their own. > > The Jerusalem Post was far more forthcomming, they listed URLs in their > articles. > > I have heard that 70-80 percent of the Internet's traffic was BitTorrent > files, and most of them were bootlegs. After this latest increase in > downloading to replace what was free, but is no longer available, > I expect that almost all of the traffic in Israel is downloading bootleg > files, most of it TV programs that people used to watch on BBC Prime > (dropped by HOT) or Star World (dropped by YES). > > In plain English, there goes the neighborhood. :-( > > Geoff. -- Regards, Tzahi. -- Tzahi Fadida Blog: http://tzahi.blogsite.org | Home Site: http://tzahi.webhop.info WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
