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


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On 13 Feb, 12:26, "Essex Laptops - Andy Usher"
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allan
tracy <thunderbird57...@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.)

Its a good point, Take the last season of the Soprano's for instance, C4
played 12 episodes then left it months before showing the other 6, how
stupid and annoying is that. I Sky Plussed all the first 12 and
downloaded
the next 6 as sooon as I could, Then watched the whole lot over one
weekend.

I have the box sets of the others and although I didnt pay top money for
them, they are still original. However they were out before the Mass DVD
Copying was available.-

It's faintly ironic that my brother, based in the US , has set up a
VPN with my other brother, in London, so he can download *UK* shows
which don't get shown in the states ... effectively he's tapping into
my UK brothers PVR.

I wonder if that's illegal .....

I dont know, I know a lot of people in Spain ( the wealthy ones) use a
slingbox to watch there cable from the Uk over there, Im not sure how legal
that is either. I just dont get the time to do all this stuff, I have about
10 of "The Bill" still to watch. Lol


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