Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
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Well, apparently, I hadn't watched "Beauty and the Beasts" from my Buffy season 3 dvd set before last night-- because I discovered a bobble on the dvd.
It looks like a smudge -- is that a scratch in dvds? Does this mean that this dvd is completely screwed?
Well, I wonder if the movies can be removed from such BT sites and leave the TV links.
Yeah, but they are getting nasty about the TV stuff too, since they see it as a loss of future DVD sales.
not hardly. These asswipes. If they produce DVDs that are high quality with extras, I most certainly will buy those above the crappy versions of what I have at home. I don't download tv shows to subvert a process, but if they schedule shows I want to see against each other - I can only watch/tape 2 programs. I have to BT the 3rd if I want to see a show before it is cancelled ("House", I'm talking to you).
It's the same argument the industry had against VCRs 2 decades ago. Did that destroy the industry? Not hardly.
I can see HBO et al protecting their assets, but North Shore? Gimme a break. They should pay me to do what I'm now doing for free.
LOL.
I don't at all disagree with you. the unfortunate thing is that the successs of DVD sales like Buffy and Firefly just make the asshats see dollar signs.
Aren't many tracker sites already located overseas? I don't see how they can easily stop them.
I don't download tv shows to subvert a process, but if they schedule shows I want to see against each other
That's not even it for me. I'm DLing stuff that either is not aired in the US at all (Spooks, some BBC documentaries, stuff like that), or is being aired in advance in the UK or Canada and that I will watch/record when it airs in the US (Stargate).
Or that isn't being aired at all and isn't available on DVD (Max Headroom, Odyssey5).
Okay, once or twice I've downloaded stuff I deleted from the Tivo and wanted to make available to a friend (Lost, Joan of Arcadia). In neither event did the producers lose anything by it.
These guys aren't losing anything from me downloading.
I don't see how they can easily stop them.
Well, yeah, that's the other issue.