Udder Randomness

[Stormlight]

Okay. I'm stumped. Last night on Hulu I saw there was a Korean drama called Heirs that looked interesting. But the commercials on Hulu tend to annoy the hell out of me. I once tried a free trial for their paid services and they STILL have the commercials. WHAT PAID SERVICES STILL MAKE YOU WATCH COMMERCIALS?!? Isn't that the POINT of PAYING?!? *pantpantwheeze*

Ahem. But I digress.

Anyway, I went to D-Addicts to see if it was available there for download. There was a torrent for the full season, but my computer memory was full so I couldn't download it, and I had to get ready for work anyway, so I didn't bother trying. Well, tonight I cleared space on my memory and went back to D-Addicts, and the torrent is gone. Poof. Disappeared. It won't come up at all. There are a few episodes of another kdrama called THE Heirs, but I'm not even sure if its the same drama. The plot sounds a bit different, like Boys Over Flowers toldc from the POV of the rich snobs in the school, or something (which also sounds interesting, thinking on it). I'm just wondering what happened in less than a 24 hour period that made that batch torrent of Heirs just poof into thin air. It's just GONE.

I even googled the hell out of it and it won't show up on the results list, either. Just that one called The Heirs, and I'd try that except there are only like six episodes available, so I'm pretty sure it isn't the same thing. I'm not sure they're subbed, either. But I did get a message saying Google removed results due to copyright complaint, and now I'm wondering, did someone complain and have it removed? Why? Korean drama usually doesn't fall under copyright violation in the States which is why it's usually so easy to get my hands on it online.

Anyhoo, felt the need to rant. In the meantime, anyone else here wouldn't happen to be a fan of Kdrama and know where I might be able to get my hands on that torrent, would you? I find BJD and drama fans often tend to run in the same circles, so it never hurts to ask.

[victoriavictrix]

But I did get a message saying Google removed results due to copyright complaint, and now I'm wondering, did someone complain and have it removed? Why?

That is your answer. Someone issued a DMCA takedown notice. No telling why. It could even have the same name in English as something made in the US or Canada and the takedown notice was issued automatically by the studio search-bot. The studios all have search-bots now that go looking for titles and can automatically issue a takedown notice.

Edit: I checked the DMCA takedown notice. It was issued by Remove Your Media LLC on behalf of SBS International Inc to 28 different torrenting services. It appears that they issued takedowns for both "Heirs" and "The Heirs" and the takedown notice was meant to be for "The Heirs."

http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=1240985

[Stormlight]

Ahhhh, that does explain it. Thanks!

And I did a bit more digging on D-addicts and dramawiki, and the two titles do seem to be the same drama. So, Heirs was removed but THE Heirs is still available, although only a few raw episodes are available (I get the impression it's still airing in Korea which sort of explains lack of fansubs for the series?). I still have no clue what that full-season batch torrent really was, but whatever. It's gone. I guess I'll have to put up with Hulu's commercials and just watch it there as the episodes come out.

It isn't even really that there are commercials. It's more that they're always the SAME commercials. Over. And over. And OVER... And the Heirs episodes are an hour long which means there will be a LOT of the same commercials over and over for each episode. Drive a person nuts, I tell ya.

[knittnkitten]

yeah, I shelled out for an amazon prime subscription because the commercials on hulu were getting on my nerves.

[DollyKim]

This is why I buy any TV I really want to see on DVD or I'll purchase an episode with a certain guest star. I can see both sides as there are some things that just aren't available outside of tape trading for silly reasons. If commercials are the only way to see anything I'll put up with that too. There's still some music I'd love to have a better copy of or a different mix, or even an ebook or twelve, but the DRMs differ for different countries.

And I finally saw They Were Eleven. Good story telling there.

[Stormlight]

I'm sort of the opposite. I prefer to see a show first, and if I really like it, I'll buy it. So far the only series I actually shelled out money for is Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Beauty and the Beast (the ORIGINAL show, not that joke of a knockoff that has absolutely nothing to do with the original whatsoever). And of course I had to buy Avatar series, and I'll get Korra once the prices go down a bit.

Oh, and I bought Gargoyles, too. Except the dumbasses at Disney stopped producing the DVDs halfway through the second season, citing that there wasn't enough interest in it. Um ... HELLO? What about those of us who DID shell out $40.00 per season and now have a half-completed series sitting on our shelves?! Don't the paying customers get a say in it? Sheesh. No wonder people pirate episodes off the net. Stupid decisions like that don't give us much of a choice. >__<

I also have a subscription to Amazon Prime, but mostly I keep it because I order a lot from the site so the free 2 day shipping really comes in handy. As far as instant video streaming, they don't have as much as Netflix streaming, which I also have a subscription to. And the site is confusing as hell to navigate. They don't have their free streaming stuff and their still-gotta-pay-for-it streaming stuff separated very well, especially when I try to search for something. And they don't have anything in Asian drama at all. Oh, and I can't stream through anything but my computer unless I have a particular brand of television or player, or their own streaming device like Kindle Fire, which I don't. Netflix is superior to Prime in that I can stream through my tablet or phone or blu-ray, but it only carries full seasons of shows, not individual episodes. So Heirs won't be put up on there until it's completed. Still worth the $8.00 a month, though. I probably watch Netflix (and Hulu, commercials and all) more than I do actual television anymore.

Oh, They Were Eleven. I've heard of that, but never saw it. I mostly know of it because I remember reading an interview (in the Big ElfQuest Gatherum, I believe) where Wendy Pini said she had considered calling her series "They Were Seven" as sort of a pun/nod toward the show back when ElfQuest was first created.

Seriously. The things my brain remembers sometimes.

[DollyKim]

Most of the shows I've bought were ones I saw on TV, never saw the new who are they kidding B&B. What has ticked me off is they stopped The Muppet Show after just three seasons. You'd think by now they'd have print on demand because I'd buy the rest. Some stuff I've bought but barely started, The Prisoner, original Tomorrow People, but I need to start over because I want to give it proper attention.

A subtitled They Were Eleven is on You Tube in chunks, it really is worth at least one watching because of good story telling. When I watch it again I'm going to look for clues to the identity of the eleventh.

[Gift_in_Edge]

While watching a The Lord of the Rings movie marathon on TV with my dad, I realized Sam is kind of like Frodo's Kato.

Well, looking in to the spacial impossibilities of the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining was a good thing, rooms don't line up with doors, windows are in places they can't be, where do some of the halls lead, where exactly is the ballroom? And interesting stuff about mirrors, doors, reflections, twins. Something gets out of the elevator with the blood. Then the theories get weird and all conspiracy.

Still though it makes the rewatching more interesting in trying to figure out all the pieces that make it so unsettling. Just where is the maze entrance?

*Maybe there isn't anything but blood as it was pointed out the shapes could be distorted reflections of the elevator doors and surrounding areas.

The Shining is one of my all time favorite films. I have yet to finish the book though. They changed some of the layout for the film. The topiary animals in the book are replaced with the film's maze.

[DollyKim]

Kubrick took the basic story and did what he wanted, including the set. He had studied subliminal advertising before making it so there's a lot of things designed to set the mood that something is wrong. It's been awhile since I've seen it but the made for TV movie is more faithful to the book and might have been filmed in the actual hotel King wrote in.

In 1980 there wasn't a suitable way to make the topiary animals with special effects so it was replaced with the maze which if you notice doesn't match the map outside.

[Trethowan]

I used to buy a lot of shows but now that Netflix has everything I want I just rent it. Saves me loads of money that I can spend on dolls instead, ha. If I crazy-super-love it, I might buy it.