| I failt to see how it's 'piracy' The shows are distributed OVER THE AIR FOR FREE! So what if I download an NBC show from a torrent site. It' not like they charged for it in the first place?
Let's be honest though. I haven't watched 'live' TV in YEARS. I had one of the first Tivo's and Replay TV (still have it), and I've never watched a commercial since then.
The ONLY commercials I've ever seen are when I'm watching football, and I always mute the TV anyway when a commercial comes on. In any case, downloading a TV show that was broadcast for FREE cannot be considered piracy, because, quite simply, they GAVE IT AWAY for free in the first place.
P2P will never go away. If the need arises, just download the TV shows in RAR format, so whatever 'filters' they use, just won't be able to catch it.
I have zero moral qualms about downloading all my TV shows, and I have a lot of them. Who are they to say what I can and cannot record (see: MS Media Center not allowing you to record TV shows). If it's broadcast, I'll get it, one way or another.
Hell, if they provided HIGH QUALITY rips of their tv shows with commercials from their web site, sure I'd download it from them. Of couse, I'd run it through a pre-processor to strip out all the commercials. I've got TONS of old tv shows, in near DVD quality (close enough), of OTA broadcasts saved on my server. Why in the world would they expect me to buy a copy of LOST on DVD, when I already RECORDED it and SAVED it?
As one of the other posters said, this is all about CONTROL. Control of what you watch. Control of making you pay again if you want to watch it again. Control of what devices you can watch it on, when and where you can watch it.
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