Hey, they want that $.99 for the luxury of downloading that which you
pay $65/mo+ to the cable co to watch (who in turn pay networks fees for
right to rebroadcast signal to cable subscribers) and could have Tivo'ed
but did not!
The law, defacto or legislated, should be as long as the commercials are
left in the recording it's fair use, but since when have the content
providers or the legislature done anything that makes sense?
Soon we will have to pay for the right to remember what we have viewed
or be subject to mind wipes. I am sure they have scientists working on
that as we speak!
As to the rest of the pir8 thing, 3rd world countries are the model they
fear America and other 1st world nations' populations will adopt, hence
the paranoid, draconian attempts to show artificial losses & thwart fair
use. Yet I have yet to see a music artist put up a paypal account to
"donate" if like but pir8 their music bypassing the industry that eats
most of the $12.99 per CD you pay for that has stupid DRM which is doing
nothing to stem the flow of rips. Nor have I seen game co's who force
you to have 1. a serial, 2. an account, and 3. the original CD/DVD,
lower their prices since pir8 is near impossible never mind fair use of
a image of the media rather than risk hurting the original disk.
It's a mad mad world, and it's only getting madder!
Winterlight wrote:
A month ago I was having trouble with bit torrent so I called COX and
asked their tech if COX was blocking it. The tech didn't know what bit
torrent was!
It was my understanding that the Media companies, unable to go after any
single entity, like for example, Napster,... was going after the search
engines that provide the links. Maybe they are also threatening ISPs as
well.
At 02:46 PM 7/14/2006, you wrote:
My wife was telling me today that one of her co-workers got a cease
and desist letter from our cable provider (Adelphia) for Bit
Torrenting TV shows. This was the first I had heard of this and was
wondering if you guys had seen this before?
I could understand it if he was downloading pirated software, movies,
and/or music but I was still under the impression that TV shows were
free game since they are broadcast for free over the airwaves.
--
Brian
