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Morality of Torrenting....
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Squishalot
If you want to talk laws I think you're looking at copyright, not licensing terms.
Not really. If you want to play a free-to-air radio station in a cafe or gym that you derive revenue from, that's a licensing issue. The fact that there are a lot of places which ignore said licensing issues is secondary to the fact. Free-to-air is generally for private consumption, not public. At least, that's how it works in Australia, as far as I'm aware.
But I mentioned broadcast TV as a litmus - it seems to me like if it's morally defensible to torrent anything it would be that, so might as well examine that.
The first response feeds back into this one. Free-to-air is licensed for private consumption. That's why we're allowed to tape things for playback in the future, generally speaking. The question is whether passing a recording to a friend is also private consumption, or has it now breached that? In the case of a CD or DVD you might buy, you're passing your rights to the licensed content to a friend when you lend them the CD / DVD, so they can view it privately. But if you view it privately and separately (i.e. a copy was made to enable that ability), that would probably be breaching, if not the technical definition, then at least the spirit of, the private consumption licensing requirement.
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gamerunknown
Haven't the faintest - most video torrenting I'm aware of is regular broadcast TV being torrented out of the region it was broadcasted in, but then that's probably because I live abroad.
Oh yeah, in Britain we can't access the Daily Show via the Comedy Central website due to licensing laws, but we can use 4oD IIRC.
Free-to-air is licensed for private consumption.
and back before the internet, people used to make mixtapes and stuff to give their friends. Radios would sometimes broadcast encoded information which could then be decoded, too.
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Liquoid
For, for I do not support MPAA and RIAA's policies at all. They're hurting the industry more than the pirates.
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