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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by willravel
American Idol is completely free to watch on local TV. I don't see how one could call that theft. The most downloaded torrents over the past year have been off network TV. Right now? Shows like New Amsterdam, wrestling, Law and Order, Surviver, Lost, and CSI are being downloaded a lot... and all of these shows are free on TV and many one can even stream from the website of the network on which they air! How in the world one can suggest this is theft is beyond me.
And music? I still have a deck from the 1980s that can record radio onto a cassette, but I don't see the RIAA breaking down my door to get all my tapes of Nirvana from the early 90s. I never saw the RIAA taking a hard stance against Sony AM/FM tape decks. Either you're downloading something popular that one could easily get off the radio or you're downloading something rare that one may only be able to get off myspace (which is also free, of course).
Even movies! I was watching Batman Begins on to the other day and could have recorded it legally to my DVR without having to pay a dime to Warner.
I can't for the life of me understand why these things are theft simply because they are downloaded.
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Actually you are talking about distribution channels. There is a difference in markets, market shares, and how much the distribution channels net monies for content creators.
So if this is an On Demand version of CSI, it competes directly with people downloading it via torrrents and also the streams available directly from cbs.com. It also eats into markets that they could license the rights to another company to broadcast overseas.
But let's stick with the US marketplace, if CSI is availble on torrents, it eats into advertisers that are on board the other distribtution cannels, On Demand, streaming via cbs.com, rebroadcast.
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