I did make a grab for Dark Skies (and then lost most of it on a cheap flash drive from Hong Kong
) on Stage 6. But then I did watch it on Channel 4 in the UK, which I fund through advertising and the licence fee, so I feel that morally, its ok 
Pirate DVDs and Torrent Downloads of Television Shows...
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I did make a grab for Dark Skies (and then lost most of it on a cheap flash drive from Hong Kong
) on Stage 6. But then I did watch it on Channel 4 in the UK, which I fund through advertising and the licence fee, so I feel that morally, its ok 
The Time Tunnel.
I do believe that it is available on dvd now though.
And during those years the lawyers were arguing I also had an illegal set of WKRP in Cincinnati -not any more though.
No I'm just posing a question and giving the options plus my solution which doesn't have to be yours if you feel investing large sums of money in shows you haven't seen is a smart move. I'm actually honestly interested to see what others would do in the situation. It's not okay to download it, no, but I do it anyway because I get to watch the foreign shows I wanted to watch and I do the honest thing of buying all the ones I watch when they become available here.
Would you actually spend $60-70 dollars to import a DVD in a language you don't understand that only contains 1 to 2 half hour episodes per disc plus a couple hundred for the player or would you just find it online in your own language for free? Now before you answer keep in mind that US non-import DVDs from anime distrobution companies are usually bilingual or at least English subtitled and $14-30 and the normal anime DVD here is 4-6 episodes. Essentially, it's paying twice the price for an inferior product. Plus if you do go with the import buying option you have like a 70% chance of ending up with a bootleg version anyway from Hong Kong if you're not carefull (just look at ebay for example). I'm curious.
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I've been doing some thinking and need the input from the law (and moral) experts in this thread.
If you are too lazy to program your devices to record a show while you watch it -would it still count as illegal download if you DLed the episode?
I mean, you come home and there's been a citywide blackout your machine doesn't hold the ep. or you screwed up the settings, or your HDD was full or whatever really: You follow a series but don't record it but DL it instead.
And what about those copies of dvds you bought, It'll take forever to make copies of those -much easier to DL the shows instead (even if it probably won't be in as good a quality) -how does the law (your moral) stand on that?
Indeed, I did a search after posting that; that box looks just great
If you are too lazy to program your devices to record a show while you watch it -would it still count as illegal download if you DLed the episode?
I mean, you come home and there's been a citywide blackout your machine doesn't hold the ep. or you screwed up the settings, or your HDD was full or whatever really: You follow a series but don't record it but DL it instead.
And what about those copies of dvds you bought, It'll take forever to make copies of those -much easier to DL the shows instead (even if it probably won't be in as good a quality) -how does the law (your moral) stand on that?
Indeed, I did a search after posting that; that box looks just great
I getting obsessed and off tagnent, but I only have the opinion that American copyright and healthcare both seem to be bloated, inefficient, unbalanced, and not geared towards the common good (not releasing TV shows on DVD over copyright BS is infuriating and avoidable, but at least nobody has died, unlike with unhelpful health "insurance").
What about torrenting a officially unavailable and recently unrepeated series, then deleting it?
And Sony (the company that pulled the plug on Dark Skies DVD for no real reason) is not exactly honest about copyright either, despite hurting many consumers over it, when it was found to have recently stolen software for it's own use.
What's criminal is hotel chains charging $5 to view a single episode of something like Seinfeld on their payTV options when Seinfeld still airs as reruns 3-5 times a day in some markets.
The Time Tunnel DVDs are great. It's in two separate volumes for the single season. They did a fantastic job of remastering it and Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea. They remastered both in HD (though they're available only in regular DVDs right now). The show probably looks better now than it ever did when it aired initially on broadcast tv.
The Time Tunnel DVDs are great. It's in two separate volumes for the single season. They did a fantastic job of remastering it and Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea. They remastered both in HD (though they're available only in regular DVDs right now). The show probably looks better now than it ever did when it aired initially on broadcast tv.
What?! The devils! In France they have the fucking cheek to set up toll booths that have to be used so you can get into public toilets.
)only skimmed the first page of this thread.. but it is pathetic that your listing the things youve downloaded...
downloadings not a bad thing.. that you have to list the times uve done it..
normal people download loads of things..
You know what else aren't bad things? Capitalization, punctuation, and proper sentence structure, to name but a few.
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I have torrented TV episodes, generally when they are still airing on television first-run and I, for whatever reason, missed them. ie, download episodes of Lost and Battlestar Galactica the next day. I tend not to do so for stuff already out on DVD though, since Netflix is much more preferable.
I refuse to download anything or buy pirate videos on general principle that if the entertainment industry wants me to look at their stuff, they damn well better serve it up to me on a silver platter and not make me jump thru any damn hoops. Whatever show isn't available via regular channels, I'm sure there are ten more that are, that are just as good or better. 
This thread is like 5 months old. Did you really need to bump it to insult someone? If this is a personal problem, keep it out of Gen TV & Media--and off the board altogether.
As this thread is old and hasn't had any Botox, I'm going to close it and allow it to have a dignified end.
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