Downloads

 Durgemeister 

I possess a couple of programs for Downloading files, one P2P and one Torrent program. One is a recent acquisition, which I used to download an updated version of the other - which I had already paid for, but couldn't get an update, as I had to pay again. Okay, morally ambiguous, but here's the point...

.. When I got the first program, it was shortly after moving here. I was without access to Sky One, and wanted to watch Stargate SG-1, so I downloaded several episodes of the - then - New Series. I then subsequently bought the series on DVD is it was gradually released.

I haven't really done much else in the way of downloading stuff. The occasional song, and most recently some Foo Fighters songs, which I intend to buy the Greatest Hits CD eventually, as I would rather have it anyway.

Now, I am currently downloading the Star Trek Film. I own the DVD, but I leant it to someone that keeps on forgetting to watch it.

I would have given him a copy, but it is copy-protected, and therefore couldn't. It is obviously possible to copy it, or else I would not have been able to download a copy, but I dare say it would have meant spending more money just to copy a DVD that I already own.

As I cannot make even a back-up copy of something I have paid for, surely it should not be illegal to download a copy of something that I already own, or intend to own ?