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Old 01-01-2012, 07:54 PM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn View Post
No one- not even you- uses torrents to "time shift" what they already paid for. I mean maybe it has happened a few times like if someone watches a tv show on cable or HBO that they pay for and the signal goes out due to a storm or something, that person may download the same tv show from a torrent later to catch up on the half-missed show. The other 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the millions of torrent downloads daily are simply people getting something for free that they otherwise would have had to pay for, and this done with the specific intention of avoiding spending money.
56% of all torrent traffic is tv show idiot

your pulling numbers out of your ass

every person who has cable and is downloading those shows are timeshifting content they paid for because they paid for that cable

torrents are a replacement for the pvr

A lot ot technically savvy people have been using them as such specifically because they are superior

it basically an infinite hard drive pvr that records every show and never forgets them, no pvr on the market does that.
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