jp10558
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join:2005-06-24
Willseyville, NY
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Re: What % of File-sharing is Legal?
Movie, no. TV Show?
Probably not legal, but much harder IMO to defend being illegial.
I can tape a TV show to VHS (and edit out commercials) and watch it later. That's legal. I can take that tape to a different location and watch it, and it's legal. I'm pretty sure most people would also think it's reasonable for me to give that tape to a friend and that would still be legal.
But if I download that show after it airs from a torrent (at a reduced quality if it's a 350MB XviD file) - that's illegial. This gets back to this color of the bits essay - it's kind of retarded IMO.
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Speedy8
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Alliance, OH
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March 28th, @10:44PM
| Well, the main difference is that when you download a show via P2P, copies are being made and distributed. I'm sure if you were at home making thousands of copies of VHS tapes of shows without commercials and gave them to people it might be an issue. Personally I have no problems with people downloading TV shows, but I can see the argument vs just letting a friend borrow a tape you made or keeping it for your own use.
A more comparable analogy is recording a show yourself on your PC as a file instead of using a VHS tape. |
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