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Originally Posted by gr8fl4porsche
TV Show sharing is another argument. If I forget to set my DVR to record this weeks 2.5 men, which I would have watched while forwarding through the commercials - is it wrong to download the torrent from Pirate Bay and give it a watch? I don't see how any party is harmed or robbed.
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Take it even further...
I torrent several TV shows now. some are off the air, some are ones that are in their 5th or 6th season that I've never watched before. I can watch the early shows from torrent, get interested, catch up, then watch the current ones live...therefore, I have become a NEW customer, where I would not have been before. Allowing me to "steal" the old shows puts me in front of advertising...seems that it would be a good thing, right?
Now, I have started to watch some shows that are on cable (I do not have cable). I can see that being "stealing" like downloading music is "stealing", in that, I will watch old shows, catch up, and not watch new shows, shows which require everyone else to pay to watch. Eh...my moral compass isn't really spinning too hard with that one. Again, I'm mostly starting at the beginning of series that are now a few years in, watching episodes that I could not watch otherwise.