Re: The Screw is tightening:Illegal downloaders 'face UK ban

In message <caccc03e-cd0b-4049-a218-67f28693cb51@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, allan tracy <thunderbird57303@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes

The record and film industry needs to grow up fast or it's in danger
of becoming irrelevant. The Internet won't go away, despite all their
delusional attempts to make it do so, and it's providing what the
punters want but the record companies won't such as the ability to
obtain individual tracks from the latest releases and the ability to
watch a film on DVD without having to wait for it to end its run in
the cinemas.

I download a lot of US TV shows, because I want to see them close to the time when they're broadcast, not at the whim of some UK TV station, who may or may not show them at all or if they do show them with cuts, or in some cases (NYPD Blue on C4 for instance) not until years later and even not on terrestrial at all.

If I lived in the US, I could legally download them the day after for a small fee. As I live in the UK, I can't, so instead of the studios embracing the technology and working amongst themselves to sort out any rights issues, they "force" me to download them "illegally".

If they charged a reasonable fee (by reasonable I mean cheaper than buying a DVD, when available, I'd happily pay to do what I'm doing, as of now it's impossible to do so.

I currently own 1100+ DVDs, have a subscription to an online DVD rental service and a full Sky Sub and, more often than not, if I like what I've downloaded, I'll buy the DVD when available, so nobody is losing out and I'm just getting to see stuff earlier than I otherwise would. In fact, a lot of the DVDs I own, are as a result of having watched something that I normally wouldn't or has never been shown over here and like it. What's the difference between what I do and waiting a year or two and watching it on free to air TV? (Don't watch ads anyway, as I record everything I watch, live sport being the only exception and FF through them.)

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Sean Black
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