MPAA Targets P2P Sites Sharing TV Shows
MPAA Targets P2P Sites Sharing TV Shows
I’m so sick of the RIAA and the MPAA!
The MPAA is attacking sites that now list torrents of TV programs. Come on! I love being able to watch a TV show on TV live, however, many times I’m away from home and can’t get to see my favorite shows (like 24). I could program my DVR on my computer to record the show or even my VCR, but sometimes I don’t know I won’t be there. We’re just turning into a world where we can’t share any content with anyone else without being sued. It’s just hard to support an industry when they’re out to suck as much money from their customers as they can get. It’s interesting, because they’re numbers for sales of DVDs of TV programs has been almost doubling the last couple years (in the multi-billions now of TV program sales)… they can’t use the argument that trading is losing them money for this one!
I love being able to open up a torrent and download it all compressed and ready for me to watch.
It just sucks that now we can’t even legally share TV broadcasts with each other! I’m just getting sick of big business suing small people.
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Yeah, both the MPAA and the RIAA are pretty ridiculous. They’re both passing up a great content distribution system and angering their customer base in the process.
isn’t it because you don’t download commercials? which means that advertisers aren’t going to pay as much when they know that people are downloading the tv shows commercial-free. what ever happened to that tivo case?
Doesn’t matter.. they say you can record them for yourself — you just can’t give them to anyone else.
I think they are missing the obvious solution here. Provide the popular shows that are on public channels for free online, either through bit torrent or traditional download. The quality should equal its TV counterpart and if they want people to watch their commercials they can DRM the files so you can’t fastforward through them.
Here’s the way I see it. If the stuff that’s on TV now isn’t on DVD, then they should allow people to download it with the commercials as Kevin suggested. If, however, the content is already selling in DVD format, go buy it!:P
Well, from my experience with torrents Anthony’s point is right. But, not for why he implies. Yes, I own DVDs of the series that I just love (24 and Family Guy). But, part of this is because torrents do not exist for past seasons of these shows. Mainly, I’ve found that when it comes to TV you need to get it soon or you will not have enough seeds for the show. So, if I wanted to get season 1 of 24 I’d be out of luck or have to wait forever to get all the episodes.
But, I think that the movie industry is going to have the same problem that the music industry did. They need to find a way to embrace this. Whether this is via DRM or some other means, but something needs to be done and cleaning the internet a site at a time will not fix the problem. Now, with trackerless torrents it will be even more difficult to find where the source is coming from.