5/20/2009

Downloading and the collapse of the old media regime



Most people I know do not watch TV in real time anymore but use bit torrent to download what they want to watch, when they want to watch it, and without commercial breaks. While charges of piracy have loomed over that activity, this practice is arguably legal right now in Canada – one of the purposes of last summer’s Bill C-61 was to make the practice illegal. It is taping shows on a VCR for viewing later that is currently illegal (but would have been made legal by Bill C-61).

Downloading and the collapse of the old media regime

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