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Originally Posted by gideongallery
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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Using your number, 44% of torrent traffic is downloading content other than tv shows- mostly commercially released music, movies, games, software and apps that they clearly didn't, and would prefer not to have to pay for. Of the 56% of torrent traffic downloading tv shows, 55% of them either don't actually pay for cable or satellite tv at home- as you know there are many people nowadays bragging that they "cut the cord"; or they do pay for some form of basic cable but not for the specific channels the shows they are downloading were broadcast on; or they are college kids on campus who neither have paid for cable nor even have a television in their room for that matter; or they are downloading shows that were not even broadcast in their country in the first place; or they are downloading compilations of tv shows containing episodes that never aired on tv in the first place. None of which would be covered under your catch-all excuse.
I get the idea of the theoretical convenience and practicality of a limitless worldwide accessible DVR that records everything for all time that anyone can access. If there was way to make it work for both end users and content creators it might be a great thing. Maybe in the near or medium term future the industry will figure it out. But as it stands now it's a literal free-for-all. Not even the advertising supporting the tv shows in the first place survives the editing and encoding process of the self-entitled end users.