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I saw some streaming sites. The following site is helpful, because there are collected sites which we can see for free in it.
 http://enchanting.cside.com/service/freemovie.html

It has many categories like news, movie, animation, sports and so on. I can find easily what I want. In many streaming sites there are some helpful information, but there are so many commercial films or most of them are kind of junk. When I see them for 10 or 20 sec and if I’m not interested in it, I skip and leave its site. It looks like a channel zapping of tv. And I am sometimes  able to find very funny or helpful things on streaming which I can not see on TV.

 Broadcasting is basically one direction casting from a station to a watcher, but recently DVR is getting popular, so they can skip commercials and see only what they want. In this meaning, the styles of watching tv and internet streaming site are getting similar together.
 In other hand, streaming has a problem of rights management. Broadcasting companies usually have contracts of programs to broadcast by electric wave, but they don’t have contracts to broadcast to internet. But recently changing thought of rights is gradually evolving. They are getting think that too much strict regulations might let users leave. It might take much time, but in near future we can see many programs without noticing whether they are provided via broadcasting or internet.

 But the style of watching streaming is basically active. They sit in front of PC and hit a keyboard and search something interesting. Otherwise the style of watching TV is basically passive. It depends on them, but I think that in these years both styles exist together.