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Originally Posted by TheDoc
We aren't talking about you.
We aren't talking about Canadians.
We aren't talking about timeshifting which covers personal use/copies and not sharing of copyrighted materials which is not covered by timeshifting.
In America the majority of p2p 'trading' has already been proven illegal, therefore is illegal.
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97% of the us population has at least 1 tv
80% of top 25 tv show downloads are from publically broadcast stations (NBC, CBS, ABC, etc)
and 57% of all torrent traffic falls in this catagory
those people are basically using torrents like a vcr.
The US supreme court in the cable vision ruled that timeshifting in a cloud is legal.
the only thing that missing from making 100% legal is for someone to successfully argue that sharing multiple non working pieces of copyright material is not the same as sharing one complete working copy.
that arguement will come.
currently since that issue has not been successfully decided one way or another the best statement you can make is that timeshifting using the torrents MAY be illegal (in the US)
in other countries like canada which have made the ruling that one download != 1 lost sale.
the fact that i would have simply used pvr if the torrents didn't exist/ and i already paid for the content thru my cable bill. is more than enough to eliminate the liablity.