[Utilizer]

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.

[steve86]

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.