Episodes of some 10 shows from this fall's television season are already available for illicit downloading online. Some point to this as the inevitable outcome of the Internet age, where anything can be pirated, posted, and downloaded by all. Others — us — point to it was the inevitable outcome of the Internet age, where television networks are sly enough to realize how much buzz they can build by "leaking" their shows to BitTorrent and then pretending to get upset and know nothing about how it happened.
The Dark Knight continues its box office marathon, eclipsing the receipts of Iron Man and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in only 10 days. It's the most important movie ever made! And it stars a dead guy who's posthumously winning over the critics in his last role! So it makes sense that everyone wants to capitalize on the enormous publicity machine. Including those responsible for illegally pirating the film.
