Is it illegal to download your local tv shows off internet?

[sohaibrazzaq]

Yeah this may sound stupid to ask but i need a clear answer about this matter. Ok, everyone knows that downloading games/movies/software's etc off torrents/file sharing services is illegal but i am talking about tv show's here. I mean they are already being aired on television so what if someone captures it and post in on internet? is it illegal? Yeah i sometimes miss my favorite shows and 90% of the time i tend to watch it on youtube and very rarely tend to download them too if i really like the episode.

[sohaibrazzaq]

no one has a clue?

[bat999]

no one has a clue?

Ianal
(I am not a lawyer)

[Joe The Dude]

I am also not a lawyer.

I am pretty sure that it is illegal to download local tv shows off of the net' but that seems strange to me.
Why?
Because it's perfectly legal for you to use a computer to record TV Shows
(and even HD or SD Cable! & Satellite) as they air, with a PC,
strip out the commercials,
and even re-encode it if you want,
and keep it forever,
and even make a copy for your portable media playing device or phone,
and watch it as many times as you want.

[hudsonf]

When VCR's first came out the court ruled it was OK to record a show so you could watch it later then erase it. Unless they changed the law you can not keep them for ever. If the studios could they would make us erase our memories of anything we watched or listened to.

[deadrats]

Ianal
(I am not a lawyer)

for a second i thought you were expressing a sexual preference.

[Noahtuck]

When VCR's first came out the court ruled it was OK to record a show so you could watch it later then erase it. Unless they changed the law you can not keep them for ever. If the studios could they would make us erase our memories of anything we watched or listened to.

Yep!!!

The TV police are gonna show up at millions of peoples homes any day now to arrest and charge the millions of people who recorded billions of TV shows on their VCR's through the 80's and saved them to watch and watch over and over!!!!

LMAO!!!!!!

It's only been a couple of decades, but i am still super paranoid and watch out my window everyday for the TV police to come rolling in to take my ass to prison for all the VHS tapes i have of shows that were never released and were released on other formats that i have kept till this day on VHS tapes!!!

[deadrats]

Yeah this may sound stupid to ask but i need a clear answer about this matter. Ok, everyone knows that downloading games/movies/software's etc off torrents/file sharing services is illegal but i am talking about tv show's here. I mean they are already being aired on television so what if someone captures it and post in on internet? is it illegal? Yeah i sometimes miss my favorite shows and 90% of the time i tend to watch it on youtube and very rarely tend to download them too if i really like the episode.

want to here something funny? according to the FBI downloading "warez" and so-called "pirated" movies via p2p or torrents is not illegal so long as you're doing it for personal use (i.e. not selling it).

when the hacker group "lulzsec" was unmasked, the guys that tracked them released chat logs from some of the members and one of the key guys talks about his home being raided by about a dozen FBI agents with a warrant. they talked to him for about 4 hours, in his home, and took his hard drives and the guy mentioned to him that he had porn and warez on said drives and the agents told him it wasn't illegal to download said stuff so long as he wasn't selling it but he should probably stop because of the hacking allegations.

then there's this reality: what "they" don't know won't hurt you, you understand?

[lordsmurf]

The word "illegal" is too often thrown around.
Same for "stealing".
Or "criminal".

Those words don't really apply here.

[subc]

One of the PBS stations features a heart-warming promo/story of an old man they interviewed, and who is very proud to say that PBS programming is great. He adds that for the last few years he has been recording shows off the air and cable and has hundreds of tapes with his favorite PBS shows on it, and then goes on to show his catalog.
The promo ends with 'Be more PBS' or something

[NaHLiJ]

Yeah this may sound stupid to ask but i need a clear answer about this matter. Ok, everyone knows that downloading games/movies/software's etc off torrents/file sharing services is illegal but i am talking about tv show's here. I mean they are already being aired on television so what if someone captures it and post in on internet? is it illegal? Yeah i sometimes miss my favorite shows and 90% of the time i tend to watch it on youtube and very rarely tend to download them too if i really like the episode.

want to here something funny? according to the FBI downloading "warez" and so-called "pirated" movies via p2p or torrents is not illegal so long as you're doing it for personal use (i.e. not selling it).

when the hacker group "lulzsec" was unmasked, the guys that tracked them released chat logs from some of the members and one of the key guys talks about his home being raided by about a dozen FBI agents with a warrant. they talked to him for about 4 hours, in his home, and took his hard drives and the guy mentioned to him that he had porn and warez on said drives and the agents told him it wasn't illegal to download said stuff so long as he wasn't selling it but he should probably stop because of the hacking allegations.

then there's this reality: what "they" don't know won't hurt you, you understand?

this is prolly really late but im new to the forums..but has anyone been mailed by comcast telling you to delete a movie you download from torrent? It has never happened to me but to my friend it did, comcast threatened him if he didn't delete it they would cut off his internet. Its a true story. Ive also seen it in comments of torrents before

[deadrats]

this is prolly really late but im new to the forums..but has anyone been mailed by comcast telling you to delete a movie you download from torrent? It has never happened to me but to my friend it did, comcast threatened him if he didn't delete it they would cut off his internet. Its a true story. Ive also seen it in comments of torrents before

you can't be serious. let's assume that some company did try that, what are the likely outcomes:

1) you tell them to go **** themselves and if they don't like it you'll switch to FIOS.

2) you tell them that you will comply and delete the movie and do no such thing, instead increasing your download activities 50 thousand fold.

the shit that people believe...

[NaHLiJ]

I dont know but thats what my friend told me.. they even send him notices if hes downloading too much like alot gigabytes in a small window of time but im talkin about extreme amounts.. and all this that im saying is comcast.

[Noahtuck]

But that's "what my friend told me"....

LMFAO!!!!!!!!

this is prolly really late but im new to the forums..but has anyone been mailed by comcast telling you to delete a movie you download from torrent?

Not only late, but this thread had NOTHING to do with downloading a "torrent"

[Heywould3]

In regards to the post about "what my friend told me" I have also received this letter (Email actually) and It said basically the same thing, something about it being brought to the attention of Comcast that I had downloaded a TV show off a p2p and to delete, and and to stop doing this or they would peruse pressing charges.

I wont get into weather or not its legal or ok to do this but it is very real that Comcast sends these letters out.


Look into Peerblock just to reduce any concern.