  footballdude Premium join:2002-08-13 Imperial, MO
| reply to brandon Re: That's not what torrents are for
said by brandon :And no producer sells below their cost at your perceived and utterly arbitrary value. You didn't watch it for free. You missed it. Either wait for a rerun or pay the price to watch it when you want. It's already been broadcast. All costs associated with producing that bit of film have been paid for. The price they are setting is completely arbitrary.
Since timeshifting has been declared legal by the courts and there's nothing stopping me from watching this at a friend's house, I see no reason why I shouldn't download something (from an internet friend) that's already been broadcast and watch it.
Since you have to pay to watch a movie, that's a different story. Up until someone broadcasts it, then I consider it fair use to download. -- What's certain about Darwinism is that it would take less time for (1) a single-celled organism to evolve into a human being through mutation and natural selection than for (2) Darwinists to admit they have no proof of (1) - Ann Coulter |