Streaming games would kill any download limits you have on your ISP and pretty much all of them have some sort of limit in place.
Actually... no.
Data caps on wired internet mostly exists in "capitalist" america, where the market is so free that it doesn't mind belonging to an oligopoly.
The rest of the world has competition, and usually no data caps (except on mobile services usually, which sucks too).
There are people who shorten these episodes to cut the repeats and some of the filler http://www.reddit.com/r/smyths "These 'Streamline' edits run shorter because they are missing teasers, cartoons, flashbacks, repetition, idents, history lessons, fun facts, "we're experts", and anything else that slows down the show."
I'd be happy to skip teasers, flashbacks, repetitions and idents; but to keep history lessons and fun facts (I don't remember seeing cartoons nor what is "we"re experts")...
Why did they cut these?
The Tories-- afraid of losing votes to UKIP (the UK Independence party) who are pushing this policy- are pandering to *their* potential voters by promising a referendum on EU membership in 2017, which- if they win- would result in the UK leaving the EU.
Indeed? Really?
Please please please, pretty please with sugar on top, could you let them do it?
Accepting the UK was the worst mistake than EU ever made...
How do you fairly compensate the people who spend the many man hours producing the movie?
Patreon, or a public service equivalent.
Once one can't find a movie that nobody has pledged for (since it hasn't been shot in the absence of pledges), even the mythical freerider will find a good reason to patron artists and projects...
Good point, and I don't think they will benefit from lessons learned elsewhere. America has had to compensate for lack of a cheap labor force by implementing technology.
And had so many countries/populations to prey upon in order to finance this implementation of technology...
China is doing shady deals in Africa, but nowhere (except maybe Burma) do they have the means to exert really heavy predation.
Your parents and grandparents were able to buy a house, two cards, and send 2 children to college on a single income. You can't.
Oh, I still can buy two cards, they just won't be Moxes nor Black Lotuses...
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.