Torrents

[Carol]

> Ali:
> As far as safe, as long as your anti-virus software is up-to-date,
> you're taking no more of a risk than downloading any other files off
> the great "interwebz."
<snip>
 
> Wonderland also falls into that grey-ish area whereupon there are no
DVDs, no way to watch short of DirectTV (for now), etc.  This isn't
legally grey so much as whether a judge will force the matter to go to
court - proving lost of profit is damned hard when there is no
possible profit gained (as far as whoever owns the copyright anyway -
DirectTV can make a case for it but they don't own the copyright so
it's unlikely they'd want to go to court to begin with).
> 
> The short answer:  if you're truly paranoid, this isn't for you.  If
you're only ever planning on downloading Wonderland as your walk on
the "dark side," go for it.  I won't say that you're not going to get
caught, but I would say that the odds are stacked against that.
(Incidentally, I use torrents a lot and have never had my computer
infected nor had anyone knock on my door.) <snip>

Carol responds:
Thanks, Ali. Since I've already downloaded the episodes (with German
subtitles) from a German or Swiss site without having heard of
torrents or knowing whether it was legal or not, I don't really need
to take any further risk myself. (Most of those episodes are no longer
available.) I was mainly concerned about recommending it to other
people on my Ted Levine list. I think I'll play it safe and say
nothing. The list members know that it's on DirecTV. I did mention the
German-subtitled episodes, so they could have done what I did if they
so chose.

I don't know. I hate moral/ethical dilemmas! Just put the darn show on
cable TV where it belongs!

BTW, if anyone associates Ted Levine with Buffalo Bill/Jame Gumb in
"Silence of the Lambs," I liked him before I saw that film and still
like him in spite of it. Brilliant acting, but if I hadn't seen him
first as Starbuck in the 1998 version of "Moby dick" and Alan Shepard
in "From the Earth to the Moon," I'd probably never have become a fan.
If you still don't know who he is, he plays Captain Stottlemeyer on
"Monk." I like "Wonderland" because it showcases his versatility in
ways that few other films do.

Carol, who thinks that "Wonderland" itself suffices as a walk on the
dark side since it's about psychiatrists and mental patients, some of
whom have committed violent crimes