Back in the VHS days.... everyone I know used to record movies from tv and kept them on VHS for years to come... watching them every once in a while, borrowing them to friends/family etc. I am sure you all know people who had dozens of VHS tapes. Now in the digital age.... I can record a movie (commercial free from HBO/Starz, etc. if I like) and burn it onto a DVD and keep it around for years to come, just as old style VHS tapes... On the news, I never hear/read anything about doing this, so I am assuming this is either legal, or it is just generally accepted.
What is new nowadays is that I can also just go ahead and download these movies from 'the internet' and save me the trouble of actually recording it from the TV, but the end-result would be the same me owning a copy of a movie on dvd.
But is seems to me that there are huge efforts going on to tell people how 'bad' it is to 'illegally' download movies or to crack down on people who do or on websites/programs that allow people to do this. While no one seems to care if I just record the same movie from the tv and burn a dvd.
Why is this? Any opinions on this?
What is new nowadays is that I can also just go ahead and download these movies from 'the internet' and save me the trouble of actually recording it from the TV, but the end-result would be the same me owning a copy of a movie on dvd.
But is seems to me that there are huge efforts going on to tell people how 'bad' it is to 'illegally' download movies or to crack down on people who do or on websites/programs that allow people to do this. While no one seems to care if I just record the same movie from the tv and burn a dvd.
Why is this? Any opinions on this?