Download Survivor, but not via iTunes

Byron is DEAD-ON (along with most everyone else, but he has the point i wanted to make said the clearest).

CBS has made this and is calling it their "test of the water" so to speak, of course when you test with something that sucks, its gonna fail. take what apple did with itunes, they testing the water (so to speak) with the #1 show on ABC Lost (sadly CBS has CSI, which is the top show on TV) and it turned out to be a huge hit to sell on itunes, so then all the smart networks like comedy central and NBC said "hey, lets put our GOOD content on itunes and sell it, it'll be great!"

i was very sad to see that CBS was selling their content on google video (i love google, use it everyday, but KNOW they can't do videos better than itunes), i knew the second i saw it that CBS has made a huge mistake, and they will pay for it for years to come, or pay for it with their whole network.

My 2 cents anyway

This will fail because of the stupidity in their license? Who would pay for something for 24hrs? I sure as hell won't. Then CBS will stop providing things for download, because their test failed...

They want it to fail, because they're greedy.

F@k 'em.

Blockbuster dude - your facts are right but your conclusion is wrong. In either case, you're not paying to own any creative work, just the right to play the media.

Your DVD-rental analogy falls down because nobody is forcing me to return the DVD by some arbitary date. I can keep it for an extra week and pay late fees. I can keep it forever and pay Blockbuster for the DVD itself (or whatever other consequences that might bring).

The more accurate model to compare is the one which already exists: I pay iTunes 99 cents for a song, or $1.99 for a TV show, and I recieve, in essence, a perpetual license to play that media.

As mentioned in another comment above, consumers HATE media that self-destructs. They will stay away from it in droves. Whether or not you think it's "fair" is irrelevant: it will fail.

I'm sure everyone reading this has, at one time or another, rented a DVD from Blockbuster for a couple bucks for the right to watch it a few times. Once you give the DVD back to blockbuster, you can't watch the movie anymore. Same kinda deal.

When you rent a DVD from Blockbuster, you're paying for the right to watch the movie until the day its due back, not to "own" it. When you buy a DVD from Target, you're paying for the right to watch the movie for as long as you own that silver disc, not to "own" the movie. With this, you're paying $1.99 for the right to watch one episode of Survivor for a day, not to "own" a copy of the episode.

trust me someone will buy but they just haven't heard of bit torrent. As for the exec who thought it up, well he should be sacked but I guess he'll be promoted. It's so lame it hurts thinking about it.

This is still-born. No one will buy. CBS will determine there is no online market. And they will eventually die.

Jump back, what's that sound ?
Here she comes, full blast and top down.

I think the execs shouls be forced to listen to David Lee Roth's radio show until they come back to sanity. Rock on dudes.

Well, whoever is stupid enough to watch this show, is probably stupid enough to pay for it.

OK so I'm fighting the temptation to buy the video just to see if running the file thru ffmpegX would convert it to something less temporary. Anybody know?

The other hack I've used is to play the video to EyeTV while recording it, thus making a permanent file of it.

Where there's a will there's a way. . .

Remember the one use DVDs (divx or divix? not to be confused with the Divx player/codec... i think) from a few years ago? They bombed. This will, too.