Originally Posted by gideongallery

never said it "legitimise piracy" it only legitimizes fair use that has been misclassifed as piracy.



but your talking about targeting things that can fall into the fair use space

like using a torrent like a vcr, i do pay for the shows (when i pay my cable bill) when i use the torrents to timeshift tv shows i am using just like my parents used a vcr.

it just a better vcr, because it has infinite hard drive space (swarm) never misses a show, never fails to tape.

no tv producer loses any income from this act because if i didn't use the torrents i would have PVRd the show anyway, and they would have gotten paid for those commercial spots anyway.




never said it was right, when you take something you didn't pay for it wrong,

my only problem is that when you try and reclassify piracy as theft you take away rights from people
rights established by the courts
rights to use the new technology in a legitimate (fair use way)

you hinder growth (like cheap solid state disk -- because of format shifting)

or like the previous response