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Originally Posted by gideongallery
and what do you think the 99.5% of the US population who have a tv and there for have been granted access to "lost"(one of the series sued for) are.
each person in that majority group are doing nothing but using the swarm(cloud) as a vcr.
Each person has the same right to timeshift as a person who recorded it with a vcr.
The network effect doesn't take away that right.
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OK let me explain it to you.
If you record a show off TV, you are paying for cable or satellite, so you have the right to record a show or movie and watch it later. You are "paying" for access to the TV programing. If you stop paying they turn it off, yet you can still watch the videos you may have recorded.
You however "can't" share them on a mass scale. Even DVD's and VCR tapes have warnings at the start that tell you it's violation of Federal law. That means if you buy a DVD at a store you do not have the right to show it to others for commercial gain.
Illegal tube uses have not paid for the right to view those videos and the owners of the site do not have the legal right to share them with others.