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Originally Posted by fredr123
What the rights holders want to make clear is that you've only purchased the rights to consume those media in a particular way.
Paying for cable only gives you the right to watch those shows as they air (or when you get around to watching those PVR recordings). You did not pay for the right, in their mind, to transfer those recordings to your computer and watch them there or on your mobile devices. There are separate licenses available for them. Heck, lots of television stations put many of their shows online for viewing whenever you want... but it's a limited run of episodes, there is lag between when a new episode is aired and when it shows up online, and you usually have to put up with a ton of ads.
What you're doing is not legal. Never has been. But it should be if rights holders came to their senses.
I'm convinced there are some smart people that run these companies. They know the way things are trending and it is all just a matter of time before a la carte options and online streaming services prevail. There will be ways to consume media that are sufficiently convenient and sufficiently inexpensive that piracy will fade away.
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Format shifting for personal use has never been legal?
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