lawrence171
Evilly Yours - Evilness
join:2001-12-24
Canada | Never successful?
Um... more scare tatics.
Did any of the lawsuits went through? I didn't think so...
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AbBaZaBbA
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join:2002-07-10
Wildomar, CA | boo hoo
let's all cry for the poor tv shows that they give out for FREE anyway. |
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dleehend
Howdy
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join:2002-03-11
Jasper, TX | Yet the sites are gone
the suit had their desired effect. The sites are gone, and getting shows online is made more difficult
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banditws6
Shrinking Time and Distance
join:2001-08-18
Naples, FL | Foreign TV?
What about small-time Asian TV shows from my wife's home country that will never be aired in international markets?
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Swordfish II
Watching A Dream
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join:2002-05-12
Cloud 9
| I would think
That if the FCC was shot down with regards to this, the MPAA wouldnt have much luck either.
»Court Tosses FCC 'Broadcast Flag'
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tiger72
SexaT duorP
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join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
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Re: Foreign TV?
said by banditws6  :What about small-time Asian TV shows from my wife's home country that will never be aired in international markets? those are unaffected by the MPAA.
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bfreese
join:2003-08-18
Wadsworth, IL | reply to AbBaZaBbA
Re: boo hoo
Right -- I'm willing to bet that majority of folks sucking down those TV programs subscribe to one cable service or another. They have already paid for them... |
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trparky
Bite My Shiny Metal Ass
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join:2000-05-24
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1 edit | Obviously, there is a demand for this....
Obviously, there is a demand for downloadable television shows on the Internet. The fact that you can download 95% of any television show that is produced either on one of the file sharing networks, BitTorrent, and the newsgroups specifically state that there is a huge demand for this.
So, I ask you, why is the MPAA shooting themselves in the foot just like the RIAA was doing and is still doing?
I am sure that the concept behind paid-for music sites like MSN Music can be easily applied to television shows. $2.50 a download, I would pay that for a good, high quality show downloads.
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Nsane_iceman
Workaholic
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join:2001-02-26
North Richland Hills, TX
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Re: boo hoo
They don't give the TV show out, they give a .torrent file much like a .txt file just with a list of IPs with the TV program. |
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G_Poobah
join:2004-01-17
Schenectady, NY
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Re: Yet the sites are gone
Actually, new and better ones are springing up to replace them already. btefnet and the others will be back.
5 Great Replacement sites to piss off the MPAA Trolls!
»www.torrentspy.com/
»www.myspleen.net/
»www.torrentreactor.net/
»www.isohunt.com/
»www.thepiratesbay.org/
Now, my FAVORITE part of all of this, is that reselling TV shows with the commercials removed is now 100% LEGAL !
Don't believe me? Read:
The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005
This bill provided an affirmative right for those who used technology to skip objectionable material, such as profanity, violence, or other adult material, in the audio / video works that they legally purchased or recorded. This is a right that most believe manufacturers of technology and consumers already have. Additionally, technology manufacturers must provide a notice at the beginning each showing of the “altered” content stating that “the motion picture is altered from the performance intended by the director or copyright holder of the motion picture.”
commercials for viagra and feminine products offend me, so I want TV shows without those ads I find offensive. Guess what, downloading a version of a show I LEGALLY RECORDED on my VHS/DVD/VCR/Tivo/etc is now 100% legal if the commercials have been removed.
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dleehend
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1 edit | 2005-05-13 - IMPORTANT: MySpleen may stop what its currently doing. Click here and post your thoughts
thepiratesbay.org
This domain may be for sale by its owner! More details...
Of course this is just a listing of download sites.
None of them have rss feeds that I can find. That is why I say it is now harder to get the shows you want. Azureus plugins would check the feeds then download the shows with no interaction on my part once I set up the filters.
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beturazzbucko
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somebodeez
| For the CLUELESS...
The RIAA/MPAA ain't shooting themselves in the foot by prosecuting CRIMINALS. They are OBLIGATED under Copyright LAWS to enforce their copyrights by suing those who STEAL copyright protected works, i.e. scumbag PIRATES!!!
Pirates don't BUY copyright protected works they STEAL THEM and that is exactly why the courts fine these scumbags and throw them in jail. That is also why facilitators of theft (P2P operators), are being fined and thrown in jail.
Sooner or later those in DENIAL will get a clue. It may take a long stay at the Iron Bar Hotel before the message gets thru the thick skulls of the jackazzes who think society is gonna allow them to steal whatever they desire. |
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Murray3
join:2001-03-06
Texas
| reply to trparky
Re: Obviously, there is a demand for this....
said by trparky :So, I ask you, why is the MPAA shooting themselves in the foot just like the RIAA was doing and is still doing? I am sure that the concept behind paid-for music sites like MSN Music can be easily applied to television shows. $2.50 a download, I would pay that for a good, high quality show downloads. But aren't they going after the sites that distribute the content for free? |
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Murray3
join:2001-03-06
Texas
| Still no argument
Despite the fact it's a seemingly never ending story (they will never catch all pirates)... I have no gripe with them going after sites like these. I really don't see any argument against the sites being able to distribute content if it is againt copyright/redistribution laws. |
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trparky
Bite My Shiny Metal Ass
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join:2000-05-24
Cleveland, OH
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| reply to Murray3
Re: Obviously, there is a demand for this....
Yes, but I have not yet seen sites that offer legal TV show downloads, only movies.
I want TV shows such as Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica (the new series), The West Wing, etc.
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jjoshua
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join:2001-06-01
Scotch Plains, NJ
·Verizon FIOS
·Comcast
| reply to G_Poobah
Re: Yet the sites are gone
WRONG!
It is now legal to sell devices that can skip over objectionable material but it is still illegal to redistribute the content in modified or unmodified form.
I would like to see a TiVO hack that automatically classifies commercials as objectionable material and skips over them when you play back a show. |
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rob_in_chatt
Premium
join:2004-09-17
Chattanooga, TN
·Comcast
| MPAA and RIAA
and i say again in yet another post......EVERYONE is guilty of some sort of infringement. do you think that all your shoutcast radio statios legally have rights to this music they are playing on the internet? do you honestly think that out of the thousands of songs that is in the music library are legit? you my friend are out of your mind because i can not sit here and think of not one person that i know that has NOT listened to a shoutcast radio station at one time and loved the fact that it was free (pending ISP fees of course) and you could listen to your favorite stream at work, at home or where ever you have a pc readily available with internet. it all goes back to one simple thing. pay those scumbag recording artists and pro sports players reasonable salaries to equal what the working man has to go through life earning then perhaps i just might have a little bit of respect for not pirating music. i have said it many times and i will say it again. i pirate anything i can get ahold of. music (currently over 150 gigs of 128 bitrate or better) and software and you name it i know where to get it from trusted sources that do nothing but laugh hysterically at the AA's attempts to stop it. it will never stop, so the sooner you grow up and realize that it is here to stay, the better off people will be without childish rants about stealing and illegal. if you can not take one million dollars and invest it properly to live a comfortable lifestyle, then you are a fucking idiot. these people that started all this infringement crap (namely Metallica) has made so much money it is obscene that they want more. its all the more proof to me that the rich get richer and the working class man gets it right up the wazoo with no kiss. end of rant. |
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Aggie Dan
Stop... Reverse That.
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join:2001-01-30
Frisco, TX
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Re: Obviously, there is a demand for this....
Exactly. My whole point to downloading TV shows is that there are many more options when watching TV nowadays. Gone are the days of the major networks where everyone essentially watched the same thing. And before, there were so few cable shows that the majority of people still watched the major broadcasters for most of their TV viewing. And so it was easy to find a friend or coworker that taped something you might have missed.
Recently, I had to get the entire season of Gilmore Girls for my wife. Well, I couldn't seem to get either episode 15 or 16. I can't recall which. Some URLopen error. Anyways... She was able to get completely caught up and now is a drone that ensures that she is home by 7 PM so she can watch it as it airs. No commercial skipping. Just glued to the TV absorbing every single commercial.
If they want to make money off of DVD sales then start putting the DVDs out before the next season starts. But they are less likely to do THAT (despite the fact that getting caught up before the new season starts would increase viewership) because they are putting them through reruns.
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RogerDucky
join:2002-01-04
Plano, TX
| reply to beturazzbucko
Re: For the CLUELESS...
Uhhh. You're getting copyright and trademark laws confused there.
Trademarks requires the holders to defend it in court; copyright doesn't -- suing for copyright violations is just a way to recover damages caused by said violation. Nothing more, nothing less. |
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DaveNJ
No Fear
join:1999-09-01
New Jersey
·Comcast
·Patriot Media
| reply to trparky
Re: Obviously, there is a demand for this....
Hollywoood is stupid, Hmmm people like to download shows and watch them..Lets stop them!!!!. Let see maybe if they made these show available over the internet, or VOD, entire seasons of show people would watch them, and get more adverstising dollars ? ?
Hollywood MPAA *aa are all stupid and deserve to loose money. They keep attacking all forms of revenue. |
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