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Originally Posted by Azure
The law is ridiculous. And until the media companies admit that they won't fix piracy.
There is no reason why someone who subscribes to HBO and misses a show shouldn't be able to go to the HBO site and watch that episode on demand. Or any other TV service. PVR might be legal, but if the MPAA had their way, the PVR wouldn't exist either.
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HBO does actually allow what you describe, if you subscribe to HBO you can go to their HBO Go site and watch the episode. They're even going to allow people who don't have a subscription through cable/satellite to subscribe this year. So it is happening, slowly.
But I agree, the law should allow for things like time and place shifting, lawmakers won't do it though otherwise they'd lose the sweet donations from the media companies.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Technically speaking it might be against the law, but if someone with money and resources actually took these dumbasses to court, it won't come out so simple.
Just a simple matter of multi-billion dollar corporations trying to bully people into paying.
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No doubt it's bullying and it's terrible, but I can think that and still not disagree with a notice that I've violated the current copyright laws when I know I did. The notice he got at least didn't try to bully the person into paying money (though maybe they do that when you contact them).
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Originally Posted by SebC
One can, however, argue that the law itself is bull####.
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Definitely.