I'm not, honestly not, defending one or the other point of view, here, it really seems so grey an area that I don't know what to think.
I agree that copying a DVD/CD, or downloading something that has been ripped off a DVD is piracy/copyright theft even more so when it's sold. What seems weird to me, is that if you tape something that is on TV, on a channel that you have paid for, be it by TV licence or Cable/sat and show it to someone else, even someone who also has also paid for access to that channel, it can be considered in the same light. And what seems even stranger is that this kind of dilemma never occurred when tape recorders arrived (or at least, not on this scale as far as I know), everyone was really pleased to be able to show other people what they had recorded on TV the other night, and so-on.
If you tape something for yourself and keep it and watch it time and time again is that piracy too ? Again, I'm only asking these questions because they genuinely puzzle me, I'm not trying to change anyone's mind on this but my own...