OT: Finalgear took down all its links to Top Gear episodes

[Gummee]

WTHeck am I gonna do now?!

Demand for Immediate Take-Down: Notice of Infringing
Activity

Url: http://www.finalgear.com
Date: 03/07/14

Dear Sir / Madam,

BBC Worldwide Consumer Products, Soda Pictures has received
information that the domain listed above, which appears to
be on servers under your control, is offering unlicensed
copies of, or is engaged in other unauthorized activities
relating to copyrighted works owned by BBC Worldwide
Consumer Products.

Identification of copyrighted works:

Copyrighted work(s):
Top Gear
Top Gear Australia
Top Gear America

Copyrighted owner(s):
BBC Worldwide Consumer Products

Statement of authority:

The information contained within this notice is accurate,
and I hereby certify under penalty of perjury that I am
authorized to act on behalf of BBC Worldwide Consumer
Products, the owner of the copyright(s) in the work(s)
identified above.

I have a good faith belief that none of the materials or
activities listed above have been authorized by BBC
Worldwide Consumer Products, its agents or the law.

We hereby give notice of these activities to you and
request that you take expeditious action to remove or
disable access to the material described above, and thereby

prevent the unauthorized distribution of the work(s) via
your companys network.

We appreciate your cooperation in this matter.

Yours Sincerely,
Peter O Rourke

Director Of Intelligence & Investigations Federation
Against Copyright Theft copyright@fact-uk.org.uk

T: +44 (0)20 8891 1217
F: +44 (0)20 8892 7845

For and on behalf of:-
BBC Worldwide Consumer Products
33 Foley Street
London
W1W 7TL
United Kingdom
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[Tony Edwards]

'Tis a shame. I have always been an avid TG/FinalGear guy. I can't help but see this as short-sighted on the part of the BBC. I started downloading TG via FG/Torrent years before it was available on BBC America, and in doing so became a huge fan of the show. TG is one of the most-watched shows in the world. I imagine a fair percentage of that viewership is technically illegal and consists of people who were getting the show through FinalGear.

Even now the version on BBC America is notably inferior than the UK show, in that it is edited for time to accommodate commercials, and doesn't include the music used in the UK version (presumably because they didn't want to pay to clear the songs in the US). Accordingly I imagine many Americans will continue downloading the show via Torrent rather than watching it even though they have cable/dish service that includes BBC America.

[gavingould]

netflix easily solves this problem.

[Admiral Ackbar]

even without netflix its dead easy to find streaming links to the episodes. not much of a loss atmo.

not to mention how horrible the past few seasons have been

[ultraman6970]

Torrents are full of those shows and in HD.

[oldpotatoe]

Watch on TV?? Just a thought.

[Climb01742]

not to mention how horrible the past few seasons have been

Sad, isn't it? Just running out of steam or ideas? Still a fan but my expectations for each season definitively going down.

[nathanong87]

thank you based 3T external harddrive