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Is downloading tv shows illegal?

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I pay for cable and could watch them on tv if i felt like it. I just hate sitting through comercials and having to watch shows at a certain time. Yeah i could get tivo but that isnt cheap and i like watching them in high def on my moniter better anyway. So am i gonna have the (fill in acronym for evil tv anti pirating organization here) on my ass or what?
 
Yes, the logic behind it is that it shouldn't be illegal...but it is.

And, the illegal part is when you're sharing (BT).
 
YES IT IS HOW MANY TIMES DO WE NEED THIS QUESTION

AND THE LOGIC IS THAT IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL BECAUSE YOU"RE NOT ALLOWED TO DISTRIBUTE UNLESS YOU"RE THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER

jesus fscking christ you'd think people would stop asking these stupid fscking questions every single day
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
YES IT IS HOW MANY TIMES DO WE NEED THIS QUESTION

AND THE LOGIC IS THAT IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL BECAUSE YOU"RE NOT ALLOWED TO DISTRIBUTE UNLESS YOU"RE THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER

jesus fscking christ you'd think people would stop asking these stupid fscking questions every single day
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Huh? What are you getting at? I don't understand.
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
YES IT IS HOW MANY TIMES DO WE NEED THIS QUESTION

AND THE LOGIC IS THAT IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL BECAUSE YOU"RE NOT ALLOWED TO DISTRIBUTE UNLESS YOU"RE THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER

jesus fscking christ you'd think people would stop asking these stupid fscking questions every single day
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so...its illegal then?

 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
YES IT IS HOW MANY TIMES DO WE NEED THIS QUESTION

AND THE LOGIC IS THAT IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL BECAUSE YOU"RE NOT ALLOWED TO DISTRIBUTE UNLESS YOU"RE THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER

jesus fscking christ you'd think people would stop asking these stupid fscking questions every single day
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:beer:
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
YES IT IS HOW MANY TIMES DO WE NEED THIS QUESTION

AND THE LOGIC IS THAT IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL BECAUSE YOU"RE NOT ALLOWED TO DISTRIBUTE UNLESS YOU"RE THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER

jesus fscking christ you'd think people would stop asking these stupid fscking questions every single day
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If we didnt ask these stupid questions you wouldnt get to type in all caps and feel superior. So you really want people to ask stupid questions or you wouldnt respond.
 
so if i want a tv episode of a 1970's show that doesn't air anymore and I find a person that has it on the internet and download from him, I'm breaking the law?
 
Originally posted by: maddogchen
so if i want a tv episode of a 1970's show that doesn't air anymore and I find a person that has it on the internet and download from him, I'm breaking the law?
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Yes.

AND THE LOGIC IS THAT IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL BECAUSE YOU"RE NOT ALLOWED TO DISTRIBUTE UNLESS YOU"RE THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER.

😛
 
Originally posted by: maddogchen
so if i want a tv episode of a 1970's show that doesn't air anymore and I find a person that has it on the internet and download from him, I'm breaking the law?
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BREAKIN THE LAW BREAKIN THE LAWWWWWWWW
 
Originally posted by: KPSHAH316
Originally posted by: maddogchen
so if i want a tv episode of a 1970's show that doesn't air anymore and I find a person that has it on the internet and download from him, I'm breaking the law?
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Yes.

AND THE LOGIC IS THAT IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL BECAUSE YOU"RE NOT ALLOWED TO DISTRIBUTE UNLESS YOU"RE THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER.

😛
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DOH! 🙂
 
USA Today / Reuters

Unlike their corporate cousins in the music business, television companies have yet to sue downloaders. But Web sites that host TV downloads have frequently closed down because of copyright complaints. Hackers has also taken down many sites.
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Australian Financial Reveiw / NY Times

"We have to try as an industry to get ahead of this and give the audience an attractive model before the illegal file-sharer providers meet their needs," said David F. Poltrack, CBS Television's executive vice-president for research and planning."The clock is ticking on this."

Executives at the entertainment conglomerates and the Motion Picture Association of America say the industry and the government have to establish rules by which copyrighted TV programming "cannot be moved around willy-nilly", as Rick Cotton, executive vice-president and general counsel of NBC Universal, puts it.
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bbc.com
The only problem, says Mike Baker who runs the PVR UK website, is that the legalities of downloading via the web lie in a grey area.

Laws in many countries support so-called "time-shifting," which is what you do when you tape a show off the TV but most frown on getting hold of a show that has yet to be broadcast in your nation.
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time.com
The industry is hoping that in a case scheduled for next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule against firms that produce file-sharing software, such as Morpheus and Grokster. Neither Cohen nor BitTorrent is named in the lawsuit, although an MPAA spokesman says Cohen is under scrutiny for continuing to develop the software "and making it easy to steal copyright material."
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pvrblog has good links.

basically, there's a demand and the only supply is stuff traded on BT networks. thus far, it's still considered a "grey" area. Of course, this can change soon.

WOOHOO!! LOOK AT ME!! I CAN TYPE IN CAPS... ME > OP NOOB LOSER!!
(whew... now i feel better about myself too) 😛
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
it wouldn't be if they didn't edit out commercials.
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Doesn't the NFL have some sort of message about unauthorized reproductions during the airing of a game? Because I just recorded it, encoded it, and burnt it to a dvd and set it to an ATOT member. Whoops. 😛
 
well its probably refering to showing in public or whatever. leaving commercials would make it ok under fair use
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
YES IT IS HOW MANY TIMES DO WE NEED THIS QUESTION

AND THE LOGIC IS THAT IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL BECAUSE YOU"RE NOT ALLOWED TO DISTRIBUTE UNLESS YOU"RE THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER

jesus fscking christ you'd think people would stop asking these stupid fscking questions every single day
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Wow! Who pissed in your cheerios? Or was it too much caffeine? :Q
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
well its probably refering to showing in public or whatever. leaving commercials would make it ok under fair use
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Yeah, I cut nothing out of it. If anything, it's good for the NFL and their sponsors because it's one more viewer.
 
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