Sorry, as part of the copyright holder's "bundle of rights" is the right of distribution. Absent exceptions for for 'fair use' the holder gets to determine when or how the copyrighted material is distributed.

Under fair use you can make a personal recording and that can extend to a new copy on DVD for archive purposes. But the lending would technically be illegal. That said, the odds are very slim that your lending would attract the attention of the lawyers. However, if you started making and distributing DVD's, even for free, that would be more likely to be noticed and you could be charged with a copyright violation.

Again, I'm not saying 'don't do it'. Just understand what you are doing and what the consequences might be.

You can do that as long as you realize the consequences. While what ABC is doing is a form of censorship, it is not illegal. They are the copyright holders and as such they have the right to decide how the copyright will be used. If they have gone to these lengths to keep it out of the public view, it wouldn't surprise me if this is something they monitor the share sites for.

Like the climate e-mail leaker and other whistle-blowers, I think that you would be doing a great service to get this out there for people to see. Just be aware of the civil and criminal repercussions before you do it.

Just to expand on this post: The reason why everyone gets defensive on lists of these types is because we all get possessive about the things we love, be it people, movies, food, etc. When someone questions or challenges a choice we make we often internalize it as a personal attack. If you take it in the spirit its given, the debates can be fun. When we don't is when people get vicious.

That being said, I can't get enough of QT, thought Inglorious Basterds was glorious, and anytime Baseketball comes on I get stuck watching the entire thing again and again. Have at it :)

The best deconstruction of the TLR trilogy is in Clerks 2. Randal's 2 minute summation is the best: "It's a bunch of hobbits walking around for 9 hours."

Don't be shocked. It was nominated by the Writers Guild Awards for "Best 'Original' Screenplay". As if something that is essential a mashup of Dune, Dances with Wolves, The Smurfs, and Ferngully can be considered original.

I have to ask. What do you like about this movie enough to see it multiple times? Visuals were great, yes but it was laughably predictable just poor film making. In fact, I heard an intresting comparison between this and "Dune" and both sound remarkably similar plot wise which wouldn't surprise me because he "borrowed" most of the plot elements for Titanic from other movies as well.

I don't mean to criticize, but I am genuinely curious because I can't see myself revisiting this again on DVD except to see how the visuals hold up on a smaller screen.

Amen! Saw the IMAX 3D version over the weekend. I admit I was impressed with the visuals and depth of field the 3D generated. Everything else, ugh. at least 40 minutes too long, standard plot, cardboard characters, forced chemistry between the two romantic leads, a "love" scene as bad as the car scene in Titanic, horrible laughably bad dialogue, and even at 2h 40m it still has plot holes, missing answers that could flesh out the world, and what could have been a great action scene (potentially the most memorable) was done off-screen. Summation: Amazing visuals, awful movie. It should recieve all of the technical achievement Oscars, but should be nowhere near any of the main awards.

It's interesting to watch NBC make another series of missteps in their Tonight Show succession plans. I believe the current decisions are at least partially a reaction to what happened when Leno replaced Carson. One of my favorite movies is the "The Late Shift" which chronicled the battle between Jay, Dave, and NBC to replace Carson. There are similar elements at play here. Pushing the established host to leave before he was ready to; a young "hipper" guy feeling ready that he is ready to make the move up, and the network trying to have it both ways rather than making a tough decision. Instead of making the tough decision themselves everything falls apart and ultimately the tough decision will be made for them making NBC a further laughingstock of a network.

Correct, but there are good ways and ham-fisted ways. A good example would be part of last year's 24 storyline. I especially liked how Jack won the confidence of the local Imman and showing a Muslim denouncing the extremes of Islam. A terrible example comes from what used to be a favorite of mine, MI-5 or as it's known in the U.K. "Spooks". The epsiode that lost me was one where they essentally swapped the roles of Islam and Christians. It was a "radical" sect of Catholics, partially led by a bishop, using suicide bombers made of homeless vets to take out Islamic clerics in England.____I hope for more of the latter and less of the former, but "Hollywood" seems to believe in the other way around.

I was afraid of this. NCIS and NCIS: LA has a new showrunner. I gave him a chance but it was this set of episodes, the prior week's NCIS and most of the LA run that has made me come to the realization that the show is not what it once was.

At least Chuck is back in a couple of weeks.