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Trapped into paying extra for cable TV sports
Los Angeles Times ^
| 5/1/14
| David Lazarus
Posted on 05/06/2014 12:51:00 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
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To: sheana
Agree, for the most part. The thing you need to remember is that the shows were already broadcast, which means that they already got their revenue in for the episode from whichever company purchased the rights to broadcast it. So it is already bought and paid for. The broadcasters are also already paid by the commercials they ran during the airing of the program, which was then sent out over the Public Airwaves, so no losses there either.
If someone happens to loan a recording out to someone else so they too can see the program, the originator and the broadcaster (and all the advertisers) are already paid, so they lose nothing.
So long as you do not attempt to re-sell the program in any attempt to profit from it, there is nothing legally wrong with viewing it after it was broadcast.
I think all the streaming sites are the wave of the future.
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:33:32 AM PDT
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
To: sheana
No, I didn’t mean you were doing anything illegal, as laws currently written, but by most legal reckoning, the sites distributing these videos, streaming or not, are committing infringement. I just stay away from them; besides the fact I don’t watch movies, have plenty of other things to worry about.
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:37:47 AM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature not nurture)
To: Utilizer
Your rationalizations may or may not win over a jury some day in the future after laws are clarified regarding streaming of copyrighted content. But like I say, I don’t watch tv or movies, doesn’t affect me one way or the other.
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:42:42 AM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature not nurture)
To: sheana
Actually, the latest television sets I have looked at since at least a few years ago already come with a standard VGA connector to go along with the HDMI, RCA, and S-Video so most people are covered. Here, the VGA port works just fine for most standard television programmes.
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:50:20 AM PDT
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
To: steve86
IANAL, but in general, as soon as they feel they can prove damages simply because I happened to stream something like an episode of NCIS to watch in privacy here at home, then I will worry. I think they have no chance in attempting to prove anything of the sort.
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:53:41 AM PDT
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
To: ican'tbelieveit
Yep. It’s a special kind of freedom.
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posted on
05/07/2014 2:04:35 PM PDT
by
EDINVA
To: MarineBrat
Thanks FRiend. I have a Radio Shack indoor antenna and it works pretty good. I will look into the outdoor antenna ;
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posted on
05/07/2014 5:04:45 PM PDT
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Bubba Ho-Tep
do you remember the model number ?
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posted on
05/07/2014 5:05:39 PM PDT
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: jeannineinsd
Dumped cable over a year ago.
Started gaming with a Christian-centered, no profanity group meeting lots of committed Christians, including a good number of stalwarts from GB and Europe.
TV is garbage.
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posted on
05/07/2014 5:09:54 PM PDT
by
Trailerpark Badass
(There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
05/07/2014 11:16:43 PM PDT
by
Bubba Ho-Tep
("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels"-- Tom Waits)
To: Bubba Ho-Tep
THANKS; I just called Verizon and dumped my cable TV service.
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posted on
05/08/2014 4:14:58 PM PDT
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Utilizer
I had a run-in with directtv, cancelled, and now watch all of the hockey games on a .eu site. They have EVERYTHING on that site.
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posted on
05/12/2014 9:21:32 AM PDT
by
gr8eman
(There's no "R" in Warshington!)
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