So I'd like to get opinions on this as well, since the other thread made me think of it.
Why do you think that no one is trying to crack down on the piracy of TV shows? Music, is the main focus. Movies are a huge deal, yeah, but we don't really do movies. If we want to see a movie, we'll rent it or go the the theater.
However we download shows that we don't have time to watch rather frequently. Like, we missed the stargate season finale, and so we downloaded it.
I'm most interested in what people like EUOL and Spriggan have to say about this, because they're so conservative in their views on this subject. But I look at it as no big deal because we get the channel it's on, so we *could* watch it if we'd remembered.
Now what's important here is the two shows from premium cable channels that we download. There's no way we have the money or the desire to pay for HBO and Showtime.
However- we really really like the shows, and when they come out on DVD we're going to buy them, which we wouldn't do if we'd not downloaded them, because we'd never have seen them.