Why I get my entertainment via BitTorrent

Post by AlexC04 » Thu, May 12, 2011, 11:20 AM UTC

Tyrannosaurs wrote: post #25

wyclif wrote: post #2

Some of these (I'm looking at you, BBC iPlayer) aren't even available in the USA.

iPlayer isn't a commercial service, it's funded by the UK tax payer though the license fee. I agree that this is something the BBC should look at making available more widely as a revenue generator to fund it's operations but it's not a priority for them.

Post by danohuiginn » Thu, May 12, 2011, 11:23 AM UTC

Tyrannosaurs wrote: post #25

wyclif wrote: post #2

Some of these (I'm looking at you, BBC iPlayer) aren't even available in the USA.

iPlayer isn't a commercial service, it's funded by the UK tax payer though the license fee. I agree that this is something the BBC should look at making available more widely as a revenue generator to fund it's operations but it's not a priority for them.

Post by rickmb » Thu, May 12, 2011, 11:25 AM UTC

rrrazdan wrote: post #18

StudyAnimal wrote: post #9

As an English speaker in Germany I was particularly interested in using things like iTunes (which is available here) to access TV. What do you know, it is exclusively German language content. And it is also only released when it airs in Germany rather than when it first airs in the US or the UK. Where is the logic there? If I wanted to get German language TV when it airs on TV, I would just watch TV. The whole system…

The whole system makes eminent sense. Content that has been permitted by the owner is released in your country, when the owner permits. If you are resort to piracy because of this, you are still stealing.

Post by robryan » Thu, May 12, 2011, 11:28 AM UTC

jgroome wrote: post #62

ThomPete wrote: post #16

There is no need to rationalize why you use Bittorrent, there is no argument to win and nothing to defend. It's not stealing, it's not not stealing it's just a fact that people will continue to use bittorrents as long as there is too much friction to get it legally. Bittorrent will be around as long as the content owners insist on localizing copyright and not offering their content to a globally oriented customer bas…

I think that's a bit of an oversimplification. You can use bittorrent to download and watch a film that's been released on DVD. This deprives the content created of a sale/hire/watch on demand, so in theory they lose out on revenue. You can also use bittorrent to download and watch a TV show that was broadcast in another country the night before and that will never be shown on your country's TV network. Think about N…

Post by robryan » Thu, May 12, 2011, 11:34 AM UTC

bad_user wrote: post #70

rimantas wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The law was written way before there was possible to make an exact copy of something while leaving the original intact and way before the cost of such act is so close to zero than even those who have no money to buy original still are able to make the copy. One can apply the same laws, but doing so is stretching them too much. Consider the possibility of you making exact copy of a car just by pressing a button on som…

b) they still got all the money for the cars they produced, there is not a single missing It doesn't work like that - in the event of a magical button that can replicate a car, all the cars they'll be able to produce and sell is exactly 1. In such an event the car maker won't be able to recuperate its sunk costs, and the writing would be clearly on the wall, so such a magical car will never be produced, unless there'…