On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:10, Nick Reynolds-FM&T <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it is a kind of slippery slope - one day you're making a personal > archive of a TV programme, the next you are publishing it all on the internet > for your friends - even this which might seem harmless might prevent a rights > holder setting up their own website to do the same thing commercially and > legitimately.
I'm actually flabbergasted that people think this is a serious concern. > My own personal definition of a pirate and I would stress it is a personal > one not a BBC or official one is someone who knowingly attempts to sell or > commercially exploit other people's intellectual property without their > permission. mine's actually a little broader than that, but at least we generally agree on something :) > People say "there's nothing people can do about this" but Pirate Bay was > closed down and fined heavily and I haven't seen much about them since. They were back online within about 24 hours and are still running more or less quite happily. And, more to the point, there were *one* site of many. Running a tracker's easy - that's the problem with peer-to-peer. It's not a million miles away from trying to stop people delivering letters to one another by hand. M. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
