I’ve got to agree with this.
I’ve got to agree with this. I’ve got a similar setup at home, but by default my SickBeard listings are set to skipped and I only change it to “wanted” if I miss a recording on TV due to a tuner fault or some stupid news announcement that messes up the timing (those things should be illegal ). If I’m interested in a movie I’ll go out to Redbox and rent it.
I used to use Bittorrent, but after a few “cease and desists” for Basic TV shows (CBS, ABC, NBC) from Comcrap I decided to move over to newsgroups. It’s really tempting just to download all my TV episodes in Xvid/AVI format (350MB) versus keeping the 3-7GB GB files from recording them myself. Not sure why, but my conscience says that downloading one-off episodes is okay, but not downloading entire seasons, or shows that I don’t subscribe too (HBO, Cinemax, etc).