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Originally Posted by pmrid
I find it amusing to see the righteous indignation people can muster at being told they don't have a right to steal. Shock and horror! The fact that it has been possible to steal with relative ease and impunity doesn't alter the fundamental nature of the act.
Peter
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Good point in relation to pirating movies and musics and books.
But where a lot of pirating occurs is in television shows. I tried, I really tried, to watch shows like 24 on free to air. But in Australia continuity is totally ruined by the insane amount of ads.
So - a show is shown on free-to-air or Foxtel on the same day as in the USA. One can record it and try minimize the insane amount of ads by fast forwarding over them. Or one can illegally download the exact same program where someone has mercifully taken the ads out.
A violation of copyright? - Yes.
Has the copyright owner actually lost anything? - Depends on how many people who downloaded the show would actually have watched it with the ads, or switched too something relatively ad-free like Youtube movies or SBS Iview (400 movies available at any time). Presumably if the program with ads had gotten a higher rating on free-to-air, the copyright owner could have gotten more money out of the TV network. But this is all a bit tenuous.
Regards,
Renato