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Originally Posted by Ian Robinson
When the FTA networks get rid of "reality TV" and wall to wall horse racing, zoom zooms and other crappy vision like wall to wall footy , cricket, tennis and the like, and start putting half decent programs on air.
I'll stop downloading.
Please don't go preaching to us about torrenting being illegal.
Downloading torrents for personal viewing is no worse than taping or recording on DVD or you TV's HDD those programs you want to watch later or missed.
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It's no worse, but it is still copyrighted material, and you are breaking the law by downloading it illegally. Most ISPs will let it slide if you get one infringement notice, but if you get a few, they'll cancel your service. Most of the companies hunting down infringers will tolerate one or 2 warnings to the same person, other than that, they'll take legal action against the ISP. No ISP will jeopardise their customers, or income, for just an individual. They'll terminate your service before they do that. Been there, and seen that.
If you use private trackers, you've got far less chance of getting caught. Piracy is piracy. You may not have strong morals, but I do. Stealing is stealing.
Dave