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Friday, March 28th, 2008

South Park Episodes Are Now Online, DRM Free

Who knew a media studio could actually find a way to do things “right”? Comedy Central and Viacom appear to have “seen the light”. I love the ultimate reason that spurred this effort:

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/south-park-to-o.html 

South Park fans will soon be able to watch any episode of the seminal animated show free online, thanks to a deal between show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Comedy Central’s parent company, Viacom.

In an appropriately glib statement, Parker and Stone said they were inspired to start the site when they got “really sick of having to download our own show illegally all the time.  So we gave ourselves a legal alternative.”