Sidereel

Overview
[|Sidereel.com] is a website that allows users to watch almost any episode of any television show online. The website offers links which require payment to watch the desired television episode show in high quality, links which do not require payment to watch the desired television show in slightly degraded quality, and false links which do not allow you to watch the desired television. Users of this website themselves contribute these various links. The website also includes news about the show and reviews of episodes. A forum enables users to connect and share their opinions about shows. A feature of the website also allows you track your favorite shows so that you are notified by email when a new episode comes out. The website has become widely popular, even though it first came out only four years ago in April, 2007 ([|1]). The website is the world's largest independent television site [|2]. In fact, amillion users visit the site every day and over ten million visit every month ([|2]). And these visitors prove quite loyal as statistics reveal that the average user revisits the site once every three days [|2]. There are plenty of reasons why this site is so popular. Viewers can get the shows they want for no cost, and they do not have to sit through advertising like they do when they visit sites such as [|Hulu] or network websites. Despite its popularity, this site has significance because it has greatly changed the way people watch television, one of our culture's most important rituals. Television-watching no longer requires an actual television. Additionally, the fact that more and more people (especially young people) are watching shows on their computers has made watching television more of a solo activity, not the group or family activity it once was. This website also makes television more accessible to people. Viewers no longer have to wait for the show they want to watch to air on television. Viewers have more control than they ever had to watch whatever they want to watch whenever they want to watch wherever they want to watch it.

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