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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
If you are downloading TV shows on torrent websites (and thus also uploading to everyone else in the swarm), you are taking part in an ILLEGAL activity. You better stay out of anti-torrent threads here on GFY now.
When you record shows on your VCR you are also recording the commercials. That is how they make their money.
When you go to their websites to watch the show, you are seeing various ads along the way. Plus the quality is degraded so that you'll want to watch the reruns on TV or buy the DVDs when they come out.
Torrents have the commercials edited out so they aren't making anything there, and they are decent video quality so nobody is buying the DVDs. So how exactly are the companies making anything off torrents? You better have a good answer, or you are a hypocrite.
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paid product placement
american idol producers got 26 million from coke vs 24 million in liciencing fees from the tv station. (and off course the fact that the entire show is nothing more than commercial for the CD of the contestants)