That said, yes, I'm a big fat hypocrite because I refuse to watching streaming media of TV online in order to support the writers, but I download music. Unfortunately, big wig producers can afford to hold out longer than people who were on strike, and the writers got nothing on their demands for this particular subject. Writers wanted to be paid royalties for streaming videos on websites, and the producers refused to pay. Watching streaming video has the same effect on people like the writers and actors, which is why that long writer's strike happened not too long ago. The reason people are against illegal downloading is because by downloading you avoid having to pay to obtain the product, which means that companies get to avoid paying their employees royalties. But it is LIKE illegal downloading, which is what you actually asked. I would count that as 50% legal.Īs everyone has said above, it's not illegal downloading. My neighboring state would arrest me no questions asked if I was pulled over and searched even though I have a legal permit for it 10 miles down the road and over the border. Sadly I live so close to two state borders that I have to be very careful to rememeber to remove my gun if crossing.
I can carry a gun in my purse or on my body in my home state for 25.00 every few years. (If I'm carrying a gun, and drugs, and get searched, and I have a gun permit, are my actions 50% legal? or are they just both legal and illegal?) I've never heard of a 31.4% illegal action.Ĭlearly you're not hanging out with the right crowd! Nemesis wrote:Ĭan you actually have anything that's between 100% legal and 100% illegal? I have yet to find a legal place to watch movies. The legal sites are also better in quality and sound (And look good on fullscreen). Youtube can be legal, but you generally don't find anything that airs on TV or is in the movies there legally. Youtube, Hulu, these sites that keep getting shut down every thirty seconds because they've been found, the Pirate Bay (torrent sites like that, mininova, etc) are all 100% ILLEGAL. Some sites you may have to pay to see the most recent episodes (Crunchyroll), and some just have the episodes a few days after the original (CBS, Fox, Daily show). Those sites either own or have contracts with the copyright holders to have streaming episodes for those shows.
You can watch full episodes of stuff like The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Most Fox shows, most CBS shows, Crunchyroll has a lot of Anime.
Most cops aren't going to pull you over for going 67 in a 65.Īs to movies.would you buy a bootleg VHS/DVD of a new release that someone video-taped opening weekend? Do you think that the bootleg copy is illegal? That's the same idea of the things posted to YouTube. Whether or not you would get in trouble for something is unrelated to whether or not it's illegal.
You probably wouldn't get in trouble for watching something posted there, also it's possible the poster might. You don't have to pay to watch CBS.Ī lot of things get posted to YouTube that then get pulled when the copyright owner learns about it, btw. Stations that don't make their current programming available aren't "behind the times" they're protecting their copyright and income. Any more than that, and you're just waving your exploits in their faces. Personally I think that TITS are a technique if they are used less than once every three moves. If something's put up on a bittorrent site, good luck getting that excised. If something's put on youtube that they don't want up, they can contact youtube to get it pulled. I would say that a simple definition of what might constitute illegal downloading is sources that the owners of the property cannot control. Hulu is another option for watching stuff online, and much of what's on there is put there by networks so people like you can catch up on what they might have missed. Youtube's video quality is rather low, so I don't think anyone would get up in arms about you watching stuff on that-if anything illegal was posted there, they'd be going after the poster not the viewers. I would guess the lack of a clear answer means no one else knows either. Fining someone 1.2 million when they are the mother of four is called trying to milk a stone.Īnd then there is always youtube, I think that's where I watched Twilight. It would be hard enough for a group of people to be tried and sentenced for watching someone kill someone else/themselves online and we all have seen how well the downloading lawsuits are going. This thread has nothing to do with being worried. Some stations are just way behind the times. Re: Is watching episodes online like illegal downloading?Īye, when I was watching LOST I would watch it on their website.