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Old 12-10-2009, 11:51 PM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by kane View Post
never mind if the free market wouldn't embrace it. Should I be allowed to do it? All I want to do is record a show off my TV, cut out their commercials and put in some of my own, then load it up on a torrent site for people to download. Maybe people will find out it has commercials and not download it, maybe they still will, that isn't the question. Should I be allowed to do this? that is the question.
ok so let just make sure we are clear about your fabricated situation

even if thoses commercials were left in place, the content producer would not have been paid
putting your own commercials would not get you any money either (see above)
such a file would be rejected by the free market, and therefore die a miserable death

so basically should you have a right to waste your time in a pointless excersise that will gain you no income and cost the copyright holder no income

sure why not
you want to be stupid go ahead.

now if the copyright holders were getting paid for that distribution, then it would be a different story.
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