Over here at pixelatedgeek we have an unofficial set of rules- our guidelines or eight fold path if you will, that have a fight club-like effect on the members of our dear little site- Rule 1. Get Money and Get Paid our second and our final rule- GET MONEY AND GET PAID. So you can imagine my dismay when I arrived at CBS.com to watch How I Met your Mother, expecting a Red Rider Bee bee gun only to find a child size bunny suit for Christmas. If twitter and Digg aren’t your normal sources of information, CBS.com does not host their shows on their website. CBS’s blatant disregard for rules 1 and effectively 2 leads to the conclusion that CBS.com is not a place for the internet community and ultimately to the idea that CBS.com sucks.

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The internet, if you haven’t figured out from the barrage of ads screaming out at you about winning a free Nintendo Wii, is here for two reasons, Pornography (our 2nd most sacred and prized possession) and Money (our first most prized possession). So when I came upon CBS.com handing out tid bits of fantastic shows like priests handing out excerpts of the bible to the Ned Flanders of the world, shock and awe there the only words that come to mind. Not only did they not fuel their obvious need for capital to payoff their rediculous bill for an awkward an unattractive Katie Couric, but they committed some other very deadly sin. They abandoned their entire loyal and ad-watching community to fend for themselves, torrenting and streaming their shakes away for that How I Met Your Mother fix. First, I am well aware that piracy is always problem. There are tons of lazy and bored college and high school kids that have no moral regard for leaving their family computer on in weekly intervals to get all of the episodes Gossip Girl and Private Practice (or Lost and Heroes if you have two testicles and a penis). In addition to that, there is an equally large  if not greater sum of perez hilton fans who would just as easily place Megavideo next to Perezhilton.com in their bookmark page. But this is not a deterrent in the least to not host their episodes. If anything, it is the most definite and envigorating set of evidence to host their own website full of episodes of the Big Bang Theory. The Piracy, aside from the paltry consequences the DRM loving bleeding hearts, provides two large setbacks: quality and time. The amount of time and energy used to torrent 4 seasons of How I Met Your Mother would easily be a deciding to factor to your local 17 year old best buy employee and lead him to the “middle way” of CBS buddhism.  and then you ask “But what about the other places that stream it for free? and bandwidth has become so ample and cheap in the last few years?” this is easily solved by the 2nd point : quality. Most streaming sites dont have the money or resources to host an HD quality episode let alone 8 seasons of Will Grace (the best show since Doogie Howser MD, btw). Thus the quality of their episodes are meager at best. Even megavideo, who steals all of TV networks precious ad- revenue for building evil tree eating golems or w/e they do, enforces a time limit on the amount of data that can be seen. Again, the strength of the Hosting premise promises for a large payment on the dividends. Not only would attract back and keep strong the largely growing and annoyingly expanding community of WoW-playing hot pocket eating individuals, they would effective restore a percent if not an equal amount they wouldve lost through piracy. Taking the idea of “free money for free swag”, CBS will have followed the paths of MTV, CW, and the great and powerful ABC- our castle of King Lost.

Today we start a revolution( that was actually started by other sites long but will help this site greatly anyhow.) Today we stand in a country that has gone leaps and bounds from watch racist shows like Cops, Sopranos, and All in the Family to a country led by a black man who grew up in that hate tv era. Today we stand with our chins held up high in the knowledge that hope is not a 4 letter improbable word to a dream- a goal that will soon come to fruition. Today I believe that piracy can be fought, but not with guns or gore, but with large databases of shows and correctly placed advertisements. Today we can all together and strike two birds with one stone and with 3 words our own personal revolution we can begin a new era.

YES WE CAN.

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