Double-whammy for Viacom!

Lately on watch-avatar.com, my usual website for watching Avatar book 3 episodes — since Nickelodeon Israel are too lazy to bring it over, but not too lazy to bring the new season of Drake & Josh over — once released, I saw the new episodes were released, yet noticed my browser loaded something from the Viacom website. Wondering what it was, I checked where the flash file was streaming from, and apparently, it was streaming directly from the Viacom website.

Thinking happily: “Oh, finally they do something good for us! No recording necessary this time!”, and editing the part in Wikipedia saying the episodes have been aired, I begin watching. A day later, I check and see the Wikipedia page was restored to the state before I edited it. Checking the log, the editor says: “episodes were leaked into the internet“. After further checking, I see they have been. (further proof I just found, see last part of discussion)

I’m guessing some Viacom employee converted those and uploaded right away!, since compressed YouTube-like files can’t be used anywhere but websites flash video players. And I say: THANK YOU! I like the series alot, and if I got it ahead of time, yippie for me! .