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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
one major difference between lending tapes and downloading is that you have to give the tape back when you are done watching it. i doubt you are old enough to remember what it was like. you couldn't even copy tape to tape as the majority had some kind of filter that would make the copied tape look like crap.
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people who use the torrents as vcr don't keep the copy after they watch why would they
they can always get it back just by reconnecting to the swarm.
the transient nature is still the same
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people were careful about who they would lend their tapes to as they would often come back damaged, there are no such worries when uploading. even using your example, sure it sounds decent but fact is anyone out there can download 100 movies tonight if they wanted to, no calling friends, finding who has the tape, getting the tape, etc. its all just instant, search, click, download. its not just the same.
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you just proved my point about superior timeshifting technology
take the doctor who mid season finale
river song just announced that she was amy pond daughter
the big reveal had all kinds of hints in the previous episodes ( the only water in the forrest is the river)
so what did i do, reconnect to the swarm to download all the old river song episodes
to see if there were any other "spoilers"
once i am done watching them i will delete them again.
why waste my storage space when the swarm let me recover that content any time i want for free.
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i just can't see fair use in uploading to the internet unless the only people who have access to what you have uploaded are your actual friends who might benefit regardless from something you bought but instead you are giving every single person on earth with an internet connection the ability to possibly download what you have uploaded, which goes far beyond fair use.
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again you proved my point, your trying to hamstring the technology to the flaws of the old system
even when that results in less "piracy"
i have gone from taking 1 show i want an 3-4 that i didn't (because they were bundled on the same tape)
to now only taking the show i want
the only difference between the two is that you can now count my "timeshifting"
in fact you count me multiple times (see doctor who example above)