Ok, I'm trying to work out a theoretical licensing issue. I subscribe to Netflix, which lets me watch any dvd on earth for $17 a month. They let me have "3 at a time". The turnover rate is based on how fast I watch them, and the mail service between Kent, WA and their distribution center in Tacoma, WA.
At a maximum, if I put a Netflix dvd in the mail on Monday, it can arrive there on Tuesday and they can have a new dvd back to me on Wednesday. Of course, if I drop it in the mail on Saturday, there's a one day delay. So, lets say, I can watch at most 1 movie a night. Basically, I get 6 dvds per week, 4 weeks a month or 32 dvds a month. For $17 I get the right to watch 32 dvds. So, let's say, instead of actually using the mails, I download the dvd rips from isohunt using the Azureus bittorrent client. Let's say that I limit myself to the same maximum downloads as the Netflix postal-based system can handle...in fact, the actual limit is my ability to consume dvds, which at a maximum is 1 per night -- and quite frankly, after a year of Netflix, I'm so saturated with movies that I barely get through 1 or 2 a week any more. In the grand scheme of things, shouldn't what I'm doing be perfectly legal? I mean, the people who would get the licensing money are getting it via Netflix. In the same vein, Rhapsody at $9.99 per month should make it legal for me to 'acquire' music freely, since I would be doing that anyway using their client ( which only runs on Windows and so I would never want to use it). I think there should be some type of downloading 'indemnity' that the MPAA should offer for $20 a month for all recorded media that says: hey, you can download, or /upload/ as much as you want, and if anyone asks, you just flash your MPAA card at them...all they really need are the tracker logs so that the right artists can be compensated for the chosen media. -- Texeme http://www.texeme.com _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
