Illegal downloading?

Is there some sort of rule or restriction regarding downloading TV episodes and films?
I heard somewhere if that you download a film or series episode within 100 days of release, you can't get done for it.

Anyone know if this is true or not?
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use peerguardian
who cares

i have all these tv series:

24
one tree hill
the o.c.
lost
prison break
cold case
smallville
the sopranos
nip/tuck
desperate housewives

no FBI agent came knockinig on the my door yet!
You're missing RobinHood, it's really nice
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and veronica mars.
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AHAHAHAHAAHAHA
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Robin Hood, the new BBC serie?

I watched them all last nite rofl. It is kinda childish, and the fights are often so stupid. But it is fun to watch.
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well it's something else then watching gunfights, that true...
But I acutally like it because it's different :)
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It's a little too unrealistic to be really good.
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need smallville :<
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heroes are missing :s
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will get heroes and jericho ASAP

+ grey's anathomy
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the family guy > all
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where's oZ?
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all 10 seasons of friends <3 chandler
:)
got a link 4 those?
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who cares rly x)
Downloading TV series is as illegal as any other copyrighted content distributed via p2p networks.

TV series are usually quite expensive to make. Let's take, for example, HBO's Deadwood: a single episode cost around 5 million to make. Costs for a complete season reach pretty significant numbers.

Channels funding expect to make profit from these series. Major part of the income comes from commercials shown during the episodes, which are always cut out from pirated copies.

Many of the channels producing quality shows, like HBO and Showtime, are not free. They lose direct income with every downloaded episode (at least in theory). However, it's not even possible to order these channels everywhere in the world.

Massive downloading of TV shows evident in the internet these days might affect the future prospects of channels producing quality TV shows. At least until someone figures out, that there's a huge demand for quality TV series around the world, and sets up some kind of a cheap on demand -service.

I, at least, would be willing to pay some money to get all the episodes in, for example, 720p HD resolution with some proper encoding... The only difference compared to today's situation would be, that some money would flow back to the companies that make the series.
I consider it my right to download any program created by the BBC.

These Euro theifs can fuck right off though.
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According to Dutch laws you're allowed to download things for your own use, only uploading them is illegal.
I like dutch law then.
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Everything that feels illegal, is illegal. :-)
Having sex with dogs is illegal? ffs...
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kyl mä sen sun muijas viel sentää ihmiseks laskisin et ei hätää, cheater
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No sun on vaikee laskee mitään mihinkään ku oot pillua nähny viimeksi sillonku synnyit ja sillonki tais olla silmät kii xP
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ainut mikä mulla laskis ois muna jos sen sun muijas näkisin
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Älä pakota mua viiltämään, sanasi sattuu niin kovasti :(((

ps: miten se voi laskea ku ei oo koskaan noussukkaan
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No lol, iha turhaan rehreshaan täs ku lopetit taas keske :c
Meen sit saunaan naimaan muijaa joka sais sun pippelin laskemaan xDDDDDDDDDDDD
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rekkamiehet saa mikä ei muille kelpaa, pätee sun tapauksessa
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hehe, Noh son mun muija ja kelpaa mulle hyvin, jos sen ulkonäkö rasittaa sua jotenkin niin vingu sille tai ole katsomatta. Kuulut näihin lapsosiin jotka ei vielä muuta keksi ku piestä suutansa jostai sellaseta mistä ei tiedä mitään vielä =]

Ja joko on padit loppu ku alat pieksemään suutas mun muijasta, oot ehkä paskin flameeja ever, tahdon uuden vastuksen =[
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no kiva xP atm häxin TCE:S paljo mukavampaa imo
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cheattaus on homoille
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Olen täysin heteroseksuaalinen vaikka harrastan epärehellisyyksiä internetpeleissä
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downloading ftw
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