It hasn’t been hard for people to watch the cult favorite show South Park (possibly the best show on television) online. Sites like Allsp (All South Park) have had the entire catalog available for some time. And episodes are always available on BitTorrent immediately after broadcast.
Instead of fighting BitTorrent and sites like Allsp, South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are simply going to try to make them irrelevant by offering something better. Along with Comedy Central, they’ve expanded South Park Studios, where viewers can stream any episode of South Park from the show’s twelve seasons. The joint venture was announced last year, but added whole episode viewing today.
The main benefits: quality is significantly better than the clips on Allsp, and are searchable. Of course, there’s also no question about copyright infringement when you watch shows on the sanctioned site. The downside is that the episodes are not embeddable (although clips like the one above are), and there are ads includes in the streams.
Revenues from the joint venture are being split 50/50 between Comedy Central and Stone/Parker.
The viewing experience is very similar to Hulu. But the fact that the entire catalog of episodes is available makes the site much more attractive. Hulu only shows the last few episodes of any particular show, so new viewers are unable to start from the beginning. If Hulu wants to be the long term default library for online television, they need to work out licensing deals that allow them to upload all historical shows, too.
Similar to Hulu, full episodes are not available to Canada, *sigh
There not available in the UK, Either
Can’t watch them from Australia as well, it sucks balls!
i cant even watch any episode here in sweden. :S
Its boring like all you gays
you’re a biggot
like hulu, this is going to be really popular. ease of use to accommodate laziness is the reason advertising works. i <3 clownco!
I find it quite refreshing that they decided to “go with the flow” rather than pulling a piss and moan job like the RIAA. The quality is quite good as well.
Actually, they went with pretty much exactly the same approach the MPAA is, with Hulu — US-only, Flash streaming only (no download). So if I want to watch it somewhere I don’t have fast enough Internet, or on a different media player, or outside the US, it’s back to BitTorrent.
It’s good that they’re starting to understand that they have to compete with piracy. It’s bad that they still don’t understand all the benefits piracy provides.
Dave , Buddy , Dont you understand these big corporations dont have to “compete” with piracy at all whatsoever , look at world of warcraft for example , chinese gold selling companies ? Blizzard could squash that like a bug if they wanted to , just like viacom or whoever is behind southpark could destroy any piracy by making it easier to watch , its just that they are such greedy bastards. nobody is making money from having a website like allsp.com , if anything they are spending money to bring us this service , something viacom , lets just say for arguements sake south park is owned by viacom , so to speak , its just something viacom wont do. on the other hand if they had some actual brain power they could make money and let people around the world watch south park episodes online for free , just like i watch it on sbs in australia , for free.
Peter – BitTorrent works just fine in Canada, from what I hear.
also one more tidbit:
hulu is archiving old shows by seasons (the riches and fx shows) and the seasons are usually complete. even current shows are put up usually within days (the apprentice), sometimes even before (such as the case with simpsons and king of the hill). the movie selection are also somewhat eclectic but it’s definitely kept my interest. paramount is signing on soon so i’ll be quite content and happy for awhile.
so once again, hooray clownco!
Michael – it sure does, but my hard drive is getting full
my macbook only has 60GB and I like leaving the torrented files on so I can seed
very smart move, its impossible to win piracy, i am not sure if it should be called piracy anymore. people upload their favorite episodes just to share them with friends and family.
great to see that producers start to look at online content sharing as possible income source by making sharing legal.
It’s great especially since it works fine from France unlike Hulu!
Wait it works from France but not Canada?
Comedy Central hates Canadians.
Bittorrent loves all.
Wow, the quality is awesome on the preview. I didn’t really realize how bad the free versions were until seeing this….. but never really cared because it’s a cartoon and all…. Matt and Trey get it, SP is arguably one of the most intelligent shows on TV when it comes to politics, social issues, and the like and their intelligence as content producers shows in how they handle content that will inevitably show up in torrents anyways….. What are the options? Allow free access and be heroes or follow in the footsteps of the RIAA? It’s a no brainer…. plus they are probably just cool guys that figured it would be a good thing to do.
Works from Finland as well.
Shows “Sorry Australia, full episodes coming soon” to Australians.
The only way to beat piracy is to provide a better and easier solution.
It has and is bringing legal alternatives! TPB FTW!
Now someone create a legal alternative that used to be Joox.net and Stage6! with pc hooked up to TV visiting joox was like visiting the movieplex but in the comforts of my home!
If the feed is part of Viacom’s syndication system we’ll likely see a bunch of their properties pop up on similar sites.
use adblock and there aren’t any distractions
https://addons....irefox/addon/10
Sorry England.
This is what I get when I try to access it. I can’t watch anything on Hulu.com. Yet I read the same press, the same articles, the same reviews as all of you do over there. My demand for it is equally high. The delivery mechanisms are there.
On behalf of all of Europeans, in particular those living in Budapest, it’s capital (http://www.yout...h?v=THyTnt00b5I) can you please wake up to this fact and give us what we want. Otherwise we will still, regrettably, break laws with our Torrents and such.
Just like Hulu, doesn’t work outside the US.
Works for me in Japan, very fast. This is great!
I live in Japan and I CANT get it here! I used firefox 3 and xp and no luck. Strangely, whe i used scriptblocker I can SEE everything except the videos but when I allow the scrips at the site then everything turns off.
Back to illegal sites for me. What a terrible site!
I didn’t expect it to work in Australia but I love the Russell Crowe image:
http://www.sout.../sorry_AU01.jpg
Fighting round the world!
Created a Yougle source for South Park episodes here (http://www.push...php?topic=190.0)
Just any old opportunity to spam us on hulu yet again.
Works fine from Germany
There is one very big difference, these episodes are all uncensored.
Also the quality of these episodes is better than anything on SouthParkZone or AllSP.
They know that their community is online and they did the right thing.
I was able to access it from Japan… huh?
“Sorry England” demonstrates the usual ignorance of anything beyond the US borders. I get this messsage viewing the site from Wales.
Stand by for another jump in allsp.com’s traffic ranking.
Works fine from Ireland.
It’s great that they have decided to make this site and that’s all well and good, but for Christ sake…
The UK doesn’t get it yet? What a mockery.
And FYI to all stupid airheaded Americians… its Britain, not ‘England’. The United Kingdom is made up of 4 bloody countries man… England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. I am Scottish and its a downright insult to be called English.
Ireland is not part of britain bitch! Now whos a fuckin airhead?
you’re both right and wrong, “Northern Ireland” is very much part of Britain, whereas “The Republic of Ireland” or “Eire”, isn’t.
Comment 28 is a brilliant show of stupidity. Do not insult others if your own intellect is obviously lacking.
I’m disappointed that we have to wait a little longer to see the new episodes.
lol, message 30 said it all.
I’ve never understood the Scots they hold this rivalry that all English are cnuts but I’ve never understood it. Epecially as they don’t really have a reason to find us insulting. I personally just find their rage delightfully amusing!
back to the point, shame I can’t view it yet, how does it filter your country? would it be possible to have a dynamic mirror site allow access to countrys which don’t have access yet?
Fuck off you all dick suckers! Get a LIFE!!!
sorry jesus : /
it doesn’t work in england neither does hulu. i can’t get south park on tv so i rely on the internet but if we don’t have a legal site to watch it on we are forced to watch it on illegal sites. this situation is shit :C
I live in Canada, not too far from the border. I can not watch the videos because it says only America can watch them. my fried 4 blocks away says that he uses the website for videos no problem. I use watch.thecomedynetwork.ca to watch south park in Canada only.
how can my dumb shit friend get to use south park studios????? he lives like 4 freaking blocks away from me! Not fair……..
>Hey chef!
-hey children!
-Why are you kids felling so down?
>Chef? why cant we access south park studios website?
-Dammit children! Why do you ask me this stuff? Just ask your parents for once!
I’m here in the states and I have to say if their intentions are to make pirate streams irrelevant or even if they think they can make a quick buck off the banner ads they should have superior streams. Allsp provides a more reliable stream (less buffering time, no hang ups, and no browser or windows crashes). Just now I tried to watch vids from season 12 and find southparkstudios.com to be even less reliable than even youku and toudu. It’s like a bad joke or something.
i think the reason people of other countries cant have access is because of the copyright laws….im 100% sure that there are some shows in other countries, we americans couldnt watch if we wanted to…
i do know there is a site quite similar to studios….
its called south park zone….i accidentally came across it one day.
Actually, it’s not the copyright laws, it’s the way they’re being used.
Generally, one company owns the distribution rights in America, and one in each region. DVDs are region-locked, so that they can sell the same content at one price in one country, and another price in another country.
Were that not the case, the fact that the DVD costs maybe $3 in a place like Nigeria would kill any attempt for them to charge $20 in the US.
Unfortunately, that’s now how the Internet works. On the Internet, a service should pretty much cost the same everywhere. There’s certainly no reason in copyright law itself that you couldn’t do that.
The problem isn’t copyright law. It’s the absolutely moronic, totally inefficient way that the copyright holders have been distributing media — which works fine when it’s physical media, but falls apart online.
I’m from Portugal and I saw an episode some months ago but now I can’t see any episode too… It sucks!
You can’t even watch it in the UK, even though there is a comedy central in the uk, infact, there is Comedy Central, and Comedy Central Extra.
So whats the big deal, and also southparkzone got renamed to xepisodes.
Can’t see em in Finland
sucks
Woah , John boy , Just relax buddy , Calm the fuck down and relax your piss flaps. mmmkkk.