No longer just for your television, Apple recently announced its plans to offer more television programming from MTV Networks in its iTunes Music store. Now you can download and watch your favorite shows from Spike TV, Nick at Night, TV Land, MTV, and Logo.
<p>Television shows will cost $1.99 an episode, and music videos can be downloaded as well for the same $1.99 price tag.
<p>So will people do it?
<p>I know there are literally a ton of sites online which allow visitors to download episodes of their favorite television shows. These Napster-esque sites usually require users to also "share" video files off their own computers as well.
<p>If you don't own the program, then legally it is illegal for you to download a television show or music video without paying for it.
<p>The question is, will the public start downloading their television shows from iTunes rather than these other free sites in the interest of doing things legally?
<p>Apple has made a small fortune off of iTunes where users can download single songs or entire albums onto their computer legally. I personally am interested to see how this plan will work out, especially now that DVRs are prevalent in homes and networks like ABC offer their most popular shows like Lost and Desperate Housewives for free online after their air date.
<p>For more on MTV Networks move to sell more programming on iTunes read the press release here
