[Grit]

Mylife's Crime:

I dloaded all of the BBC's "coupling" episodes off file sharing, and they are good qaulity, but they dont approach the quality of the DVD's I purchased!

Mylife's Excuse:

You see dloading the episodes was legal (fair use)

Commish's Crime:

So now I will download a movie, check it out, if it worthy of the collection I then go out and purchase it.

Commish's Excuse:

I use the download route as a screening tool.

I'm not passing judgement on your activity, but your arguments are very weak.

[moehoward]

I still think the best comparison is the Public Library=File Sharing comparison that was raised during the Napster hearings.

[mylife]

You see dloading the episodes was legal (fair use)

I guess you missed the legal part. If I had recorded it off the TV it would be "fair use" as well. There was no crime and the producers and distributers profited from me when I purchashed the item. How is this a crime? your accusation is weak.

[jayef]

I saved the episodes on my TiVo. Am I a thief?

[bird4four4]

This same arguement was made back in the 70's with VCR's. Right now, I have a copy of 'E.T.' on VHS form TBS. Am I the equivilent of a downloader? The industry got around this by reaping a % from black tape sales. I believe they have done this with CDR's too.

[honeygrl]

If downloading the episodes of Coupling was legal, then how did Mylife commit a crime?

Mylife: BTW the US version of Coupling *sucked*