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Originally Posted by akheron
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so.. bit-torrent is legal in BC? thats just super.. 
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Bittorrent is legal everywhere.
Downloading copyrighted material over bittorrent is not legal everywhere.
Different countries have different copyright laws, different enforcement policies, and different penalties. I'm not a Canadian lawyer but my understanding is that in Canada either it's okay to download noncommercially, or else ISPs cannot violate the privacy of their customers, so it is impossible to enforce illegal downloading. It may also be that damages are restricted to actual damages rather than the extreme extortion demands that are made in the U.S. when filesharers are sued. This means that a studio could only sue a caught downloader for $20 Canadian or so. They would never pursue such a case because it is not a profit center (unlike in the U.S. where they demand hundreds of thousands of dollars and settle for thousands) Coupled with minimal or no criminal prosecution risk, that would make Canada a good place to download your favorite TV shows (which are ironically FREE over the air...)
Obviously I am confusing all the stories I read on the subject, but I know Canada has more "downloading-friendly" laws than the U.S. I am only encouraging the OP to investigate to see if torrents are an alternative, available, quasilegal source for popular TV shows.