Originally Posted by Matt 26z (Post 12553973)

If you are downloading TV shows on torrent websites (and thus also uploading to everyone else in the swarm), you are taking part in an ILLEGAL activity. You better stay out of anti-torrent threads here on GFY now.

When you record shows on your VCR you are also recording the commercials. That is how they make their money.

When you go to their websites to watch the show, you are seeing various ads along the way. Plus the quality is degraded so that you'll want to watch the reruns on TV or buy the DVDs when they come out.

Torrents have the commercials edited out so they aren't making anything there, and they are decent video quality so nobody is buying the DVDs. So how exactly are the companies making anything off torrents? You better have a good answer, or you are a hypocrite.

Originally Posted by StuartD (Post 12553762)

Which makes me wonder....
1) watch the episode online if it's the network's website = ok
2) watch the episode at a later time if I record it = ok
3) watch the episode online from a torrent I downloaded = illegal


So basically I'm being called a hypocrite in this thread because I use a torrent rather than just record it myself or watch it in a little window on the nbc website.

Funny how that works.

It seems to me that GFY thinks "torrent" is a bad word. That any time anyone says the word they are doing something illegal.

Paranoia runs rampant around these parts.

Originally Posted by Chief (Post 12555975)

My post had nothing to do with torrents being bad. I've used torrent sites before too. I am simply saying, why the heck would you waste your time when there are alternatives which are so much easier and better.

Originally Posted by StuartD (Post 12556083)

but there are a lot of people on here who hear the word "torrent" and immediately think there that anyone involved should be locked up and castrated.

Those people are very close minded and just eager to be the good guy in non existent drama.