Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:

> >   You clearly don't download pirated TV series and movies. That's very
> > commendable.

> I don't download pirated *anything*. [Knowingly, anyway.]

  As I said, that's very commendable, and extremely rare for a computer
user (and even rarer for a computer nerd).

  But it also explains why you haven't seen divx/xvid videos with good
quality/size ratios. (That is, because I would estimate at least 99% of
divx/xvid/h264 videos out there are illegal.)

> OTOH, I'm pretty sure that 98% of everything on YouTube is illegal, and 
> I have watched some of it, so...... ;-)

  An interesting question is whether it's punishable to watch a youtube
video which contains copyrighted material or not. After all, you can't
know if the video is copyrighted or not when you click on a youtube link.
There's no way of knowingly avoid downloading the video (or part of it),
other than avoiding youtube altogether. (And even that can be almost
impossible given all the millions of websites out there which *embed*
youtube videos in them. You would have to stop surfing the web completely.)

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                                                          - Warp

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