[quote name='epobirs'][quote name='Death2Sanity'][quote name='epobirs'][quote name='coolbrys']Im very sad too... I used it for mostly legal (Well, i call it legal if you cant buy the TV show on DVD yet) purposes.[/quote]
As long as you're making up new interpretations of law for yourseflf, why not make it so murder doesn't apply if you really dislike the person.
It's not up to you to decide when you can grab someone else's property. They areunder no obligation to sell it to you, no matter how much money they may be giving up. Arguing that the world owes you luxury goods is not going to stand up well in any court.[/quote]
So sharing physical VHS tapes of recorded TV shows is murder? Sorry, I'm less than chastized. Suprnova was my poor-man's DVR, nothing more than a recording of shows I hadn't seen in a while.
Sayounara Suprnova. Even if you were a haven for the illegal, your pure uses were awesome.[/quote]
Don't be silly. I said nothing of the kind and you know it. I brought in murder to make people conscious of how wrong it is to believe one can alter the law for one's personal desires.
Sharing VHS tapes was a self-limiting concern for two reasons. First, the quality was increasingly compromised as more copies were made, and secondly, it was labor intensive. It did not represent a significant temptation to those offered professionally produced versions for purchase at what the owners believe to be reasonable prices. This changes quite a lot when the copying is performed by a method that produces perfectly identical files that can be propagated into tens of thousands of copies in a few days from the time the torrent is first spawn at a single location.
If the operators cannot be responsible for keeping illegal copies off of their site or enabling the locating of such, they can only blame themselves for the consequences. One needn't commit theft to be held accountable if you knowingly aid others in doing the deed.[/quote]
Actually that isn't true, you can get much better quality files since you can get HDTV rips and watch them in high resolution on your computer, much better than standard cable, especially for those without an HDTV.