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Originally Posted by mardigras
Television shows fall under the same copyright as any other audio or visual work. I imagine the people sued for having mp3s or shared videos on their computer fuckin' care. 
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As far as I know, copying a movie at the theaters is illegal. However, in the Betamax case, the Supreme Court ruled that making a copy of a TV show was a legal, non-infringing use of broadcast content.
So its not the same