The New York Times has an amusing article about Akimbo, a new product that promises to do to internet TV what Tivo did to regular TV. Only that the Akimbo completely sucks ass:

Unfortunately, Akimbo can offer only what the networks and cable channels are willing to contribute. And these days, just hearing the phrase “Internet downloads” generally sends television executives into paranoid fits. As a result, the Akimbo library is so puny and overpriced that the enterprise is interesting only as a “what not to do” case study.

Please people, wake up. This is getting pathetic. Last week we were reporting how the Brits are even ahead of us. Pretty soon we’re going to see articles how people starving to death in Somalia are watching pirated episodes of “Desperate Housewives” (pun intended?) while waiting in U.N. food lines. We cannot let this happen.