downloading tv show from website illegal?

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EMPshockwave82

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Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: EMPshockwave82
n0cmonkey: symantics

Unfortunately, there are people out that that make hundreds of dollars per hour all because of semantics (lawyers). ;)

Yep.... my brother in law is a securities and loans lawer.... reads contracts over most of the day and does paperwork :p
 

nycxandy

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Originally posted by: mugs
It's illegal. You don't have to be a genius to figure out that recording on a VCR is not the same as downloading from a website.

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I agree. The comparison between the two sucks ass.
 

FleshLight

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Yeah of course it's illegal. It's odd that you can record a show with a pvr or a radeon hdwonder and transfer it to your computer and convert it to divx and remove the commercials but you can't go to a.b.m and download it.
 

n0cmonkey

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Originally posted by: EMPshockwave82
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: EMPshockwave82
n0cmonkey: symantics

Unfortunately, there are people out that that make hundreds of dollars per hour all because of semantics (lawyers). ;)

Yep.... my brother in law is a securities and loans lawer.... reads contracts over most of the day and does paperwork :p

And they happen to be the only ones really making anything out of this whole debacle. ;)