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Pretty sure that law only applies to someone taping something from a source they originally paid for or had rights to. I can't tap into my neighbours cable and "backup" what's coming through his signal, well I can, but it's not legal.
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we are talking about using the torrents as a timeshifting device
the modern day equivalent of borrowing your next door neighbours copy of k night rider because the power went out on your vcr
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If letting 500 people watch a DVD I purchased is illegal, then why is it okay to share it with 500 strangers on the internet?
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the only difference between the two is that instead of having a million 1:1 transactions
you have a million people in the same swarm
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Originally Posted by Socks
Betamax is inferior to torrents on a technology scale, gideon. Just to clear that up. It's the decades, not the argument.
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not based on the arguement you just made
betamax cassette can be used for timeshifting
while the superior torrent can't be.
That the point i am making