Piracy

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Kasz216 said:

Squilliam said:

FaRmLaNd said:
In regards to television I can see the argument that its not morally as wrong but you have to consider that its only free on television because its supported by advertising. So it isn't actually free, its just being paid for by someone else.

Then its also morally wrong to fast forward/timeshift advertisements on recorded shows. So if one practice is about as morally wrong as the other practice and one is accepted, then why wouldn't both be acceptable?

Actually most TV companies consider that immoral.  A lawsuit was actually won against an earlier DVR company, suggesting that by viewing a show you were agreeing to watch advertisments.

Or something like that.

Are you sure that was actually won and not later overturned?

Anyways, yeah, they hate it but there isn't a lot they can do about it.  About the best thing they do now (by their logic, I hate it) is run shows a minute into the next shows timeslot to discourage recording it and watching it later.  If you watch it live, you have to watch commercials.

Also, FaRmLaNd, TV (basic at least) is free.  We don't pay anything because of advertisements so it's free because of them, it's not somehow not free because someone else pays.  You can go into pointless little nit picking like that all day but then we might as well say nothing is free because you can come up with stupid nitpicks like that all day for anything.