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Originally Posted by TidalWave
and do those tv show torrents include the commercials? didnt think so
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from the 20+ year old betamax ruling
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The Betamax is also equipped with a pause button and a fast-forward control. The pause button, when depressed, deactivates the recorder until it is released, thus enabling a viewer to omit a commercial advertisement from the recording, provided, of course, that the viewer is present when the program is recorded. The fast-forward control enables the viewer of a previously recorded program to run the tape rapidly when a segment he or she does not desire to see is being played back on the television screen.
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arguing that i must have the commercials in torrents when the original betamax ruling EXPLICTLY recognized my rights skip commercials in the taping (hence no injunction against pause buttons or fast forward).
Downloading a comercial free version of a show is the legal equivalent to borrowing a tape from a friend who paused during the recording.