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tsn81 wrote:
If everyone downloads shows, then networks around world wont buy shows when they think there is no demand for it.
You are always possibly causing somekind loss of money to people who make shows when you download shows.. Dont lie to yourself and pretend that what you do cant cause any problems.

This statement is just wrong as networks buy shows and keep them going for their ratings. The ratings have nothing to do with how many people actually watch the show as you simply cannot count this. So if everyone would download the show except those who have a rating-box/voting box installed at their homes, this wouldn’t affect the ratings at all. But this is not the case. Only a small percentage of people actually download shows and the majority of those people live outside the US and couldn’t receive those programs in the first place or have to wait years until they might get aired at their local tv channels.

The “loss of money” the movie industry and the tv-stations whine about therefore cannot be a loss in viewers of the specific station. Plus, to get available in the internet the show has to be aired and captured in the first place. On the contrary, due to the availability of a TV-Show in the internet, the TV-Channel and the specific show gets even more viewers and those in the US are more likely to watch the show on their telly rather than downloading it (if they can) and viewers in other countries are likely to write to their local TV-Stations to request that specific show to get dubbed and aired locally.

Despite all possible reasons for or against sharing shows online, the movie industry failed to prove that they lost any money at all… If I remember correctly, the movie industry had record earnings last year (2003). So, with all those bad people using cameras in cinemas, those bad oscar jurors who let screeners slip and the extremely bad internet users who rip and share movies and tv-shows in filesharing tools, how come they actually achieved this record income? Could it possibly be that they actually produced some descent movies and those who download movies buy them on dvd later or go into cinemas nevertheless???

You have touched on all the major points. Including the old adage of: any publicity is good publicity.