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Originally Posted by HarryT
Recording either Netflix or a cable service would surely grant you access to the material after you'd terminated your contact, would it not? What would be to stop someone from buying a month's worth of Netflix, recording everything, and then spending the next year watching it?
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Nothing.
Worse, the automated tools are commercially available and cheap.
And Netflix offers a free monthly trial.
That is 720 hours that can be ripped for free right now, law or no law.
Make it legal and the Napster wars will be but a skirmish.
This, in a sector where pirates release content *before* it gets to legal channels.
Netflix offers a good service at a good price, they make decent but not Apple/Google money, and 42million customers are happy.
It ain't broke, it doesn't need fixing, and Congress is not going to mess with it. Not with 42Million voters at stake.