Are all you Lost fans gonna stop watching because of 9/11...

[WCGreen]

I mean I won't watch anything on ABC, just not gonna do it....

Are you all ready to give up Lost, Desperate Housewife's, Grey's Anatomy, Boston Legal, The World According to Jim (LOL)...

How about it...

[Beelzebud]

1. Won't be a problem for me. I haven't watched network TV in years.

I'd love to totally give up TV, and I would, if it weren't for Daily Show and Colbert Report.

[CelticWinter]

2. I have never watched any of these shows

so its no loss for me. Actually I dont watch much tv to begin with and only watch two hours of NBC as far as the networks go so no great loss on my part.

[KyndCulture]

3. No.. because.

I bit torrent the series without commercials, and will feel no guilt about stealing them now.

[StraightDope]

6. Neither will I.

[WCGreen]

7. Yea.....

My kinda fan....

[dogday]

8. Can't argue with that logic nt

[helderheid]

21. how can I do that?

[KyndCulture]

23. Here's an FAQ

http://www.dessent.net/btfaq/

I recommend http://www.utorrent.com as the program you download for the file transfers...

and I recommend torrentz.com as your search engine to find the files.


There are some small video utils you need have too to watch the shows on your computer....
if you are on a PC that is... http://www.xvid.com primarily is the one you need.

[fujiyama]

48. I did the same thing for the first two seasons

earlier this summer. I'll be watching the third season either over the air or d/l the torrents guilt free. Fuck them. It doesn't matter anyways, because I almost always either mute ads or change the channel during them anyways.

[Omphaloskepsis]

50. Ditto...

I prefer watching them on the computer anyway.

[whiterabbit76]

4. Not an issue...

I don't even have a television set.

[flyarm]

5. ABC IS DEAD TO ME..FOREVER..I WILL ADD THEM TO CHILD

BLOCK LIKE I HAVE FOR 4+ YEARS TO FOX!

ABC IS DEAD!

[City Lights]

31. Fox and ABC are blocked from our home too!

:hi:

[AndreaCG]

9. Yup

Giving up ESPN during college basketball season will be the tough thing for me.

[pooja]

10. If we must give up t.v. for a greater good, I think we can handle it.

Instead of watching the boob tube... why don't you read, spend time with your children, hell spend time with your sig. other (wonder why divorce is so high? spending most of the day away and most of the night in front of the t.v. you drift), go outside (really its quite beautiful to catch a sunset or watch the stars come out.

I think I can handle not watching t.v. We'd all be better off if we just switched it off and spent more time with ourselves, our loved ones, and our community.

[AlamoDemoc]

11. As far as I am concerned the entire ABC network is garbage,

and so as their parent company of Disney.

[longship]

12. Thank goodness, I don't watch Sleazality TV.

Sorry, but I would hate like hell to have to go through the day worrying about people who will do just about *anything* for fame and fortune.

I have problems enough pulling away from Lenny Briscoe episodes of Law & Order. ;-)

[valerief]

13. I'm disappointed about Dancing with the Stars, because it will

have that Delay chick and Scmucker Carlson. I don't think I'll watch it now. (Er, I don't know if it's ABC or not, but I won't watch neoconny programming.)

[AlCzervik]

14. i am so un hip i don't watch any of them anyhow, i totally missed out

on all the hoopla over Lost and Grey's anatomy and Desperate Housewives started sucking at the end of season 1.

[Pirate Smile]

15. Make sure you take it off your TIVO or DVR. ABC knows and bases

some of their ad sales rates on that info.

[Subdivisions]

16. Yes! I am Lost no more. ABC is Republi-Christo-Radicalist Propoganda

[Mojambo]

17. Thankfully I think all those shows suck

I haven't watched ABC since Perfect Strangers went off the air. n/t

[WCGreen]

20. Mrs. WCGreen loves the Grey's .....

But she will give 'em up for the greater cause....

[Crunchy Frog]

32. They're doing reruns of it on Comedy Central.

She could always hold out for it on there.

[WCGreen]

34. Good idea...

[tinfoilinfor2005]

18. Yes.

There are plenty of things to watch on other networks. And although I enjoy GMA on some mornings, I can live without it.

[w13rd0]

19. I've never watched those shows...

...on ABC. I download them via torrents, that way I can watch them free of advertisement and extend a healthy FU to the corptocracy. Of course, now they are starting with product placements within the actual shows. o.O Like selling Bush bullshit in a "docudrama"...

[helderheid]

22. teach a newbie to bittorrent - I wanna learn

[Mojambo]

27. I sent you a PM. n/t

[sproutster]

24. It will kill me but yes, even my co-workers hardly believe me

They will recieve no ad dollars from me.

:) Plus I *do* know about bit torrent.

Question: Does abc get a piece for the dvd set?
(pretty sure I know the answer to that one *cry*)

LOL everyone has been laughing at me... "PLEAAAAAAAAAASE ABC DO THE RIGHT THING!"

[WCGreen]

26. Sometimes you just have to take one for the team....

[itsrobert]

25. What? "Lost" has fans? n/t

wow

[Ravenseye]

28. No

Sorry. Just being honest. My wife and I both are addicted to Lost, and she watches Grey's Anatomy.

Why not even try? Honestly, I doubt ABC would even notice the impact. People like us are obviously not their ad targets anyway because we don't drive large Ford Trucks and consume consume consume. They want 18-25 year olds who spend their parents money with wild abandon and suburban yuppies who buy new 4 mpg cars every 3 years.

It's all rationalization though. The basic gyst of it is that I like the show, and I don't feel like depriving myself of one of the few things in my life that let me just sit and relax and not think for a bit that I can enjoy.

[wakeme2008]

29. If it goes on No More Lost for me

:)

[wiley]

30. Yes.

I was subscribed to ABCPrimetime. Everyone should subscribe to it. It's a wonderful opportunity to cancel the subscription and tell them exactly what you think of them.

But don't forget it is Disney who is paying for this desecration of the honor and heroicism of those who died on 9/11 and the thousands and thousands of Americans who gave and supported to all of us in the name of love of country. Not one of them EVER said I'm doing this to help Republicans falsify history and help elect any political candidate. Unfortunately, the decent Republicans in this country - whose political viewpoints I often disagree with in a civil manner - have been so defiled by their leaders and what is being done in their name by the RNC and their drug addicted pimps like Limbaugh that it has made it very hard to even talk with them. This thing that Disney/ABC and the Republican extremists are doing is so destructive to this country, I can only see them as collaborators in our downfall.

I just watched NBC news with Brian Williams. It was refreshing to hear a network news anchor ask in disbelief how almost half of all Americans believe that Saddam had anything to do with al Q'aeda, when everyone (including Bush and Cheney)knew that the last thing that dictator wanted was to have anything to do with Bin Laden and his ilk. Timeh Russert will have the first public interview in three years with Cheney this Sunday. Russert just can't say anything even remotely questioning a Republican. Another national tragedy. I'll have NBC off during that time during my two day media black out. The TV is off. I spend those two days calling Disney/ABC advertizers to explain to them that this is not about a political disagreement.It's a protest and declaration that I will intentionally not buy or endorse any products advertized on anything Disney, including ABC.


"It's on America's tortured brow, Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow" Bowie, Life on Mars

[crim son]

33. I've watched and liked Boston Legal, a couple of times.

No more!

[WCGreen]

35. You just have to make a stand sometimes...

[crim son]

36. Make a stand, take a stand, whatever.

I'm willing :)

[Sonnabend]

37. No.

[crim son]

38. Why not, pray tell? n/t

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[crim son]

53. That's the spirit!

I look at it differently; however if everybody thinks like you, you are absolutely right.

[WCGreen]

39. Well if you are on that stand....

I'll be there for sure...

Oh yea, this isn't the Lounge.....

Never mind...

I meant,

You go Sister....

[gatorboy]

41. But didn't Boston Legal take a stand?

It wasn't that long ago that the show itself gave a pretty strong Anti-Bush Tirade...

[seabeyond]

43. i love boston legal. they make the right (star trek guy) so right

and the other one, the left dude so cool. and you are right, if i dont watch it arent i not supporting our cause.

i love boston legal. the only show i watch all week.

[crim son]

54. It sure did!

I love the show, but I can live without it.

[jayfish]

40. I Love The Show And I Will Stop Watching It. -NT-

Jay

[bliss_eternal]

46. Well said.

:)

[lies and propaganda]

42. No.

Its too amazing.

But i will zip through commercials and I sent a fib to them telling them I was boycotting.

its just too good.

[Marr]

45. If you aren't in the Nielsen program, it doesn't matter what you watch.

I'll watch Lost- if only to take note of the sponsors and avoid their products.

[NMMNG]

47. Desperate Housewives is already a part of my past

Unless ABC cans that piece of tripe. I have principles that are more important than some TV show.

[fujiyama]

49. It doesn't make a real difference

unless their sponsors are hurt (and the only way to do that is to stop consuming a lot of stuff since ABC isn't the sole station of most products) or you stop watching AND you are Neilson household.

Then again, "Lost" is literally the only program I've seen in fifteen years carried by the station that I actually kind of enjoy. I'll continue to watch it, but I'll do what I can to avoid the network's sponsors.

[Der Blaue Engel]

51. Lost, Grey's Anatomy, and Boston Legal

That's what my letter to ABC said: "I'll be sad to lose them, but I will not support you or your sponsors any longer if you air this propaganda."

I've still got Battlestar Gallactica, Smallville, and Veronica Mars.

[RollergirlVT]

52. You bet your ass I am! n/t