(April 13, 2015 at 8:08 pm)IATIA Wrote:(April 13, 2015 at 5:52 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: It depends, of course.
I buy all of the software I use (everything that isn't freeware, that is). I don't download music.
Any video that I download is limited to productions that I'm entitled to watch (i.e. I don't see a moral issue with downloading episodes of "Game of Thrones", because I pay for a subscription to HBO). It's legal to use a VCR / DVD or other recording device to time/place/format shift a video recording for personal use. If it's legal for me to do so, and it's legal for me to possess and use a recording, then I see no problem with downloading something I'm already legally entitled to view (and record, should I feel like it).
The media producers may disagree, but they can fuck themselves.
Most of the services have that option built in to the higher tier packages.
Guess what? I have, and pay for one of the higher tier packages, and I didn't download TV shows until Comcast and the networks started disabling fast forwarding in their on-demand services - I get not allowing you to fast forward through a particular commercial break, but the when they started preventing fast-forwarding through material (including the show) I had already watched, then they can fuck themselves.
...and as I said, I don't download anything that I'm not already paying for. So, no.
