I missed the season’s premier of Aaron Sorkin’s new show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip because, well frankly I forgot the Aaron Sorkin had a new show. So a few nights a go as the second episode was about to air I thought to myself ” hmmm, there’s gotta be away…”

I checked out nbc.com and lo and behold they actually had it available on line… e xcept in my area…sigh. I’m assuming its one of those Canada – U.S. things that prevents us from getting tv shows and movies from iTunes. But it did mean that the files were available and that someone, somewhere must have been clever enough to download them.

A quick google and… voila.

It seems there was a torrent file out there. I’ve never used a torrent client before having pretty much given up my software stealing ways and becoming addicted to iTunes for music downloads. Nevertheless about 10 minutes later I was busy downloading the stream on my PC and approximately 1 hour later I was watching the .avi file full screen on my iMac using VLC (as Quicktime player wouldn’t work). Meanwhile I set up the PC (an HP tv convertor and Windows Media edition) to record the the next episode just in case I didn’t get finished with episode 1. As it happened I finished the first episode about 10 minutes before the second one came on the air.

The point… we really are living in an on-demand culture!