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Originally Posted by mithrilG60
Downloading copyrighted materials such as dvd/blu-ray movies and music which is not made publicly available without a purchase cost is different, however there's nothing wrong/illegal with downloading tv programing. It's already public domain since it's being broadcast on open airwaves which means copyright doesn't apply unless you in turn are trying to resell/profit from it.
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Tell that to the lawyers that briefly harassed a friend of mine for downloading 3 episodes of Prison Break a few years back. He wasn't running the IP filter I use
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Originally Posted by mithrilG60
Technically me telling you that the sun rose in the east and Tom Cruise is a Scientologist classifieds as "news" too, that doesn't mean actually news.
It's not news if it's not investigated and reported in an open unbiased manner and Fox isn't particularly well noted for practicing that style of journalism. At least outside the US, they're known more for being the biased public mouth piece of the Bush Administration's policy wonks than for reputable reporting. All things considered, being perceived as the propaganda dept for an extremely unpopular president is hardly a ringing endorsement of your journalism integrity. Fox as ALOT of work to do if they want to salvage their reputation as a serious news organization, most of the world considers then naught more than a bad joke.
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I think you need to clarify which point you are arguing, they seem to be a little muddled together.
1) That FOX is biased towards the right. My response: no question, you are correct. Just as the rest of the networks are
equally biased towards the left. Don't hate on FOX for that unless you also plan on hating on the other networks for being biased the other way.
Since we're talking about "fair" and "accurate" reporting, do be careful with the Bush jabs. I consider all the other networks to be the propaganda department for our current airhead, and could argue that their journalistic reputation with the "right" half of the political world is just as bad as FOX with the "left". People voted for change, but mark my words, they didn't get it. In a few years, I promise you he will have done just as much damage as Bush did, if not more *shudder*.... In other words,
try to leave the politics out of a subject that has two sides to the political coin, neither of which we should be discussing here.
*envisions a warning from Peter in his future*
2) That FOX does not actually broadcast well investigated and reported news in an unbiased manner. My response: YUP, no argument there. just don't forget all the other networks. Just cause a network broadcasts the news you like to hear doesn't make it any more accurate than the network that broadcasts the news you don't like to hear. In reality, I don't think there is a single USA based network that broadcasts FAIR, UNBIASED, ACCURATE news. "left", "right", doesn't matter... its still sh!t, with a different perfume sprayed on it.