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Originally Posted by kane
I have always said that I don't care if people download TV shows, just understand that if you do download a TV show and it get canceled, you can't complain. If you like the show, watch it and support it.
This will be my final reply to all of this, clearly we aren't going to change each other's minds.
Here is your proof.
go tohttp://www.mininova.org/ and select movies ( http://www.mininova.org/cat-list/4 is the url) Sort by number of leechers.
In the top 25 results every movie listed there is either still only available in theaters or it is out of theaters and not yet on DVD. The top movie on the list, 2012, just opened this weekend. That means that every one of the 80,000+ leechers is breaking the law. Every one of them is illegally downloading the movie. All the owner of the site has to do is look at this page and know that his site is being used for illegal activity. If someone uploads that torrent to the site they know they are doing so illegally.
Do you really think that somehow these 80,000 people have gotten an option to early purchase a copy of this movie on DVD and are just backing it up? |
again it depends on the jurisdiction the court case that established the foundation of access shifting has happened in the EU, mininova is covered by those laws, so no they are not
many countries don't have an anti camming laws so their is no restriction in the recording which means timeshifting rights could be extended.
sure some countries have a problem and again
you should go after the leechers in that case, but an international organization like mininova has to care about servicing the rights of all potential views (including those that live in a country where access shifting has been established and the movie was not shown = no lost sale)