Top Gear is getting tired anyway

Just when I was getting used to the old man puttin’ Americans down on a regular basis. Damn.

NOOOO!!!!! WHY!!! we dont get top gear here!!! MAYBE IF THEY SHOWED IT HERE THEY WOULDNT PEOPLE WOULDNT HAVE TO GO ONLINE TO DOWNLOAD THEM!!!!!

The BBC sells top gear to some cable companies in th US and it wants you to buy the program from those cable providers which are buying it. If you are downloading excerpts then you aint paying for them. It is intellectual property theft and much as I hate Clarkson and don’t want to see him get richer, one day my TV show may get sindicated and I want you bastards to pay me every cent I am owed

Too bad. It is entertaining.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html

Everyone please request this show be made legally available on ITMS. That will solve the cravings.

it appears http://www.finalgear.com is still up and running with the episodes. you just have to have a torrent program to download them. and i havnt figured out how to work the torrent program either, go figure.

torrents are crap just use emule or limewire

You’re right Paula, torrents blow…

Any company that thinks taking a show people are graciously watching right out of their customers hands is smart, still lives in 1999.

how are you a customer if you aren’t paying for it Joooooel?

Loads of top gear shows and fifth gear shows on emule

TORRENTS OWN ALL

the hel happened to th emain page

To claim BBC is subscription free is a bit misleading. Basically when you buy a TV you HAVE to pay the TV license fee which goes to fund the BBC network, whether you plan to watch BBC or not. So, in effect, you are forced to a subscription to BBC along with your new TV.

Thank God for FinalGear.com

Torrents are great never had a problem

torrents are the ****. use http://www.torrentscan.com and download azureus. can’t go wrong.

Yep torrents are the way to go. Just go get bittorrent or an something similar then go from there. Check out final gear for a walk through on how to do it all. It’s easy and so worth it.

Never had a problem with torrents, High res videos perfect quality and they are up really quick

America needs to ditch all its crappy car shows and get top gear. Pimp my ride, rides, trucks, horsepower tv, i would trade it all in a heart beat to get Top Gear on tv.

They have been doing this for months. Starting with video.google. This really isn’t new.

GOD!!! FINALLY!!
I HATE THOSE TOP GEAR ****TY VIDEOS POSTING ON LNN!!! GET OUT OF THERE! LNN, FROM NOW ON- PLEASE POST SPY PHOTOS, NEW 2008 VEHICLES PHOTOS, GM SALES TANKING NEWS, ANYTHING BUT STUPID RACING CAR VIDEOS!!

cold these be in preperation for a US launchof the show?

I watched the watered down outdated crap that Discovery tried to pass off as top gear here, and I for one will continue to download the real deal from whatever avenues are available to me until such time as it is available here in non-neutered form.

Viva la Internet!

NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Yeah bring it over and make money off the commercials, BBC. If you’re worried about the anti-American rants, then put dislaimers before each episode if you must, but i don’t think people are really going to mind as long as we get our Top Gear.

are they full or just bits and pieces? and are they quality?

oops, ^^^, was talking about getting top gear from emule and the like.

Jeremy Clarkson may make anti-american comments but he is damn well entitled to that right, as I can make any anti-british comments I want. So what? Who cares? It’s still the ONLY real choice as far as TV Shows about “motoring” go. If you still don’t believe in it, check out the episode with the bobsled vs the older Evo. Or the Lotus Elise trying to avoid lock-on by an attack helicopter. Or the Ariel Atom. There are so many, take a look.

They should put it on iTunes NOW…Jeremy Clarkson may very well be sort of anti-american semi-fascistoid, but he’s entertaining as hell and he does say things that no-one else would say, things that ( sometimes ) need to be said. Appart from that, Top Gear is available on DVD: You buy, you watch!

Where can I get TG on DVD, I’d gladly buy it instead of having to Torrent every week.
Also, is it NTSC format for I live in the USA

I don’t think TG is offered on DVDs yet…but I may be wrong. Looking on Amazon and other places showed only their audio compilations for the “ultimate driving experience”.

Psh, ultimate…I’ll take my own CDs, thank you very much!

They only offer “best of” DVDs, not whole episodes.

And I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with the eMule and such comments above. eMule is a POS and always downloads at like 15KB/sec for me. Torrents on the other hand are much, much faster (I know many people who easily get a couple megabytes a sec on torrents). So perhaps you should know what you’re talking about before you say “OMGZ TORRENTS SUCK!!!!111″. I mean, there’s a reason that BitTorrent alone makes up a significant chunk of the Internet bandwidth usage.

Oh, and for those wanting to try BitTorrent, it’s very easy.

Just go here: http://www.utorrent.com/beginners-guide.php

Useless. Pirates and similar won’t be stopped anyway.

You can still watch the episodes officialy on http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear its there own site so they wouldnt take it off there.

try http://www.racingflix.com
it didn’t use ant torrent.. trust me..

BBC Canada carries Top Gear and every week there is one fairly recent show on Sunday at 7.pm and and an older show on Saturday 10.00am and repeated at 7.00PM.Its a great show and the only car show that my wife will actually sit down & watch.Its very good enertainment!

a) Top Gear is not getting tired.
b) Why the nerdy debate over torrents?
c) THANK THE LORD FOR FINALGEAR.COM!

I like to sit back, and enjoy each episode with a beverage. If I’m feeling up to it, I may even burn the episode to DVD and watch it from my couch. So what if they are removing the cotent from YouTube. I wee bit of patience and you can watch the entire show in a more controllable fashion.

I never liked it anyway. A bunch of holier than thou englishmen putting down everything but UK manufactured cars is not very appealing to me.

that sucks, it was always apleasure to watch those crazy videos. say no to bbc

Whoever posted http://www.finalgear.com is my new hero. Thanks.

[...] It seems those British media bullies just don’t want to share Top Gear with us poor North Americans. Leftlane is reporting that the BBC has forced video file sharing services like Youtube to stop hosting Top Gear footage. Citing copywrite infringement, I think they just don’t want to share. [...]

I vote we should start a petition to bring it here on “BBC America” or “Speed Channel” or else let YouTube keep it as long as there isthe BBC logo.

if you want to pursue this, hit me up on AIM screenname “Kmoney9999″ or if you belong to AutomotiveForums.com, PM me at “Porscheguy9999″

#13: agreed.

#27: go away.

Speed Channel is just a JimBob NASCAR channel 75% of the time. Since we don’t have a REAL motoring programme on the tellie here in the U.S. the only alternative is to rely on the downloading of torrents of Fifth Gear, Top Gear, etc.

-he who stacks pork

This is after Youtube reviesed its terms and conditions stating that they, ineffect, own all media posted on their site. That might have something to do with it, but who knows; no one reads terms and conditions statments anyway….

#38, that would only work if you have some sort of proxy IP address (or something like that, I’m not totally versed in that scene). The BBC will not stream their programming to any IP address outside the UK.

It’s a crime that BBC America doesn’t show Top Gear.

To be an optimist, maybe it’s a sign that they’re FINALLY going to release the old episodes in some kind of DVD collection. Not some sort of BS best of, but all of the complete episodes on some sort of box set.

A guy can dream, no?

I downloaded the video and i cant find out how to burn it to a DVD, can someone help me please?

#53: That’s simple. I’ll explain everything. All you have to do is this:

First, you

vicious6: I take it you missed Jeremy’s classic negative rants about Renault car making in England. He was happy when they went bust.

[...] Damit könnte vielleicht schon bald Schluß sein, wenn man dieser Meldung glauben darf: The British Broadcasting Corporation has demanded video hosting websites such as YouTube remove all copyrighted materials, including episodes of the wildly popular Top Gear uploaded by users. Auto enthusiasts around the world have long been forced to download the television show from file-sharing or video hosting services, because it is not available in countries where BBC is not offered. (Quelle: Leftlane, 25.07.2006) [...]

we will never get BBC Top Gear in America, because the BBC sold the rights to an american station so they could make an american version, which will suck, of course, it is being filmed as i type.

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