It's all about work

First off, sorry for the slow updates everyone. Guess I'm not that good at blogging.

Second of all, I'm going off on a rant about copyright.

Sooo... For most of you this is old news, but I've been trying to see some logic in this - but I fail - and I fail hard. I can see why it's illegal to download/distribute a movie that still is running in theaters. I can see why it's illegal to download/distribute a movie that you ONLY can rent on DVD/VHS (Does anyone use VHS anymore?)

What I fail to see is: Once something is broadcasted on TV, why isn't it free?

The answer lies in the work. What work you ask? Well - it's pretty simple. You are not allowed to watch a movie or TV-series on TV without watching the commercials (or paying to get rid of them - read TiVo)

Thus, when you first pay for recording equipment and record a movie or TV series from your TV-set you are not doing something illegal. However - most incomes from a movie or a TV series is from commercials - the networks even sell the same TV series to different networks running different commercials "earning" more and more money from the same piece of shit commercials...

So - Why is it so frowned upon by the networks that we download TV-series of Televised movies from the Interwebs?

The answer is simple. NO COMMERCIALS! Someone has painstakingly taken the time to edit out all those commercials from the material you can download.

Now, you might be inclined to believe that "well, this is really not an issue since the networks would lose revenue since you could only sell the commercial once if you allowed free downloads". NOT TRUE. Since what matters is how many people sees the commercials the networks could simply charge more for commercial time.

So - in conclusion - why are they suing us? The answer is simple. We put in a little effort. We work.

We spend time to remove those annoying commercials from TV-shows and movies - and that in essence is der Kern des Pudels. (Read Goethe ;)