If you didn't want to get into it, you should not make comments saying that something that is totally legal is not.
Number 1, sending a friend a copy of a show that was publicly broadcast, or even one show, that was broadcast on a channel they don't receive, ie HBO etc, is not Illegal it's covered by Fair Use, this is why VCR's have been around.
Number 2 when the studios tried to stop VCR's they had no clue that they could sell video tapes of the shows they had been basically throwing away all those years and people would buy them, you know, the multi billion dollar Video tape rental and sales industry. How many shows have been lost because of poor handling by the studios?
Number 3, other than sending it directly to someones Replay, which can only be done over like 3 days, if at all. You have to put it either onto a CD, meaning VCD, or DVD. And most people (not me) end up re-encoding the video depending on the software they use, which means it ends up not being a perfect digital copy.
By the time, this becomes common place, HDTV will be in full swing, which means you'll have a whole new DVD format (HDVD) and new PVR type devices to record HDTV on, etc.
If the damn studios worried about upgrading their systems instead of trying to slow down the rest of us HDTV would have been commonplace already and we wouldn't be able to copy shows over the internet anyway. But they drag their feet and blame us because we actually use new technology.
I'll go turn myself in now, because obviously I'm a big bad Video pirate because I lend a copy of a show to a friend and it doesn't look like crap, like it does on VHS.
If the studios get their way you won't have a Replay, you won't have a VHS, and you will have to pay for everything you watch, multiple times. Anybody remember DIVX. Next the'll sue the creator of the magic marker because of Sony's stupid CD copy protection.
We are the consumers people, we have the power, not them.But if you sit on your ass and make comments about how that is illegal when it's fair use, you'll lose that right and it won't stop there.
*Steps off of soap Box*
Later
TimT