Agreed totally with your comments. Digital technology changed the game
totally.
A
On 05/11/2014 17:22, artisticforge . wrote:
Hello;My point was that industry was content to allow VHS recording because
they knew that each duplication of the tape would degrade the quality
. Therefore, VHS recording was essentially self limiting. With
advances in technology inexpensive DVD burners, BluRay burners, etc.
They are no longer content to turn a blind eye.
There were other various reasons that impacted the industry's thinking
at the time. VHS and cassette tapes had a limited life-time. The VHS
tapes had to be physically stored by the person making the recording.
This storage requirement limited the number of tapes a person would
maintain. Many people simply recorded over older programmes thereby
limiting the potential for distribution of that material. The same was
true of cassette tapes albeit to a lesser extent.
hard drives, USB drives, memory cards have changed all that. the
amount of data that a person may archive on Terabyte
drives is somewhat hard to comprehend. The ease at which digital
copies could now be "shared" was a game changer.
The piracy sites sprung up funded by the porn ads they displayed.
Nowadays, a person may go to the cinema and video the entire film with
their smartphone. within hours it would be
on dozens of pirate sites.
Pirates Bay is still operating.
The founders have only just recently been arrested and/or sentenced to
jail time.
it was only recently that thebox.bz was taken down by the site operators.
the "rewards" no longer out weighed the "potential punishments."
My friends at Big FInish Productions saw their series Sapphire and
Steel essentially killed off solely because of piracy.
Peoples investments and employment is at stake.
There has to be a reasonable compromise that does not seemingly demand
that the Treasury doors be unlocked so the Treasury may be plundered.
No doubt programmes will be pirated no matter what is done to stop or
discourage it.
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Nick <n...@i.lucanops.net> wrote:
On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:51:48 +0200
J <j...@mailsorter.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
artisticforge . wrote:
<snip>
get_iplayer, bypasses all of that and is grabbing a digital copy of
the BBC content. there is a fundamental difference.
I don't follow your overall argument. My Foxsat DVR grabs digital
copies of broadcast media and the cheapo sat card in my PC similarly
dumps the ts straight to disk. I can hear/view those files without
restriction and anyone in the UK could do the same.
I started a reply and gave up because of the contradictory nature. It
seems he was OK with people using the best technology in the past (VHS
era), but these days people should not use the best technology can
offer.
We should use artificially complicated and limited things instead so
that it is like the past. Screen capture means the computer cannot be
used as a general purpose device, it has to be used as a recording
machine while the thing is on. Plus there are supposedly shortcomings
with the software, it doesn't do what it is meant to very well by the
sounds of it.
But of course in the past a major US movie exec hammed it up in court
trying to get home video tech banned to protect cinemas and the movie
biz status-quo. But those benefiting off the status-quo mostly ended
up with a better lot, home video tech opened the door for rentals and
video sales. What worry about things now is likely mis-guided.
Nick
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