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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Charles Arthur

You decide: should you get your friend's products from a filesharing site?

DVD
Please, someone buy me

You're out for a drink with a friend who works in an independent TV production company. She isn't happy: unless the TV series that they've just pushed out to DVD sells well, the company is going to have to make cutbacks. Which might include her.

You realise that that's the TV series that you've been downloading via a file-sharing site for the past couple of days.

What do you say to her, and what do you do about the downloads and/or DVD when you get home?

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