On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 21:32, Michael C. Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Star Trek Voyager ended in like 2001 or so. Star Trek Deep Space Nine > was over about the same time or sooner than that. My dad has lots of > recordings of episodes, but they are probably low quality and his > collection is undoubtedly incomplete. I want him to throw them out, > these VHS tapes take up a lot of space. He probably will throw them > out if I can get DVD copies of both series. I'll be happy if I can > master to mpeg4 files say 3 or 4, no more than 14 please, DVDs. That > takes up a lot less space than say 30+ VHS tapes. Question, is there > an inexpensive alternative to startrek.com's $300+ DVD sets? Ten seconds with Google and Amazon suggest that you can shave some money of that, but ultimately? Probably not. Lots of DVDs are priced at lots of dollars, new, because the owner of that content doesn't have any competition in sale, only end-point retailers do. > What do people think of http://www.free-tv-video-online.me/ ? Like many things, it is an attempt to dress up illegal activity in a veneer of legitimacy. Not quite as bad as the places that charge $50 to suckers, who receive in return the lie that downloading this content is now legal, but not too much further up the ladder. They still feature the pleasant, but untrue, lie that they do not "encourage illegal conduct", since they are knowingly encouraging people to break a bad, stupidly enforced, nasty, but very real law. > I am not so sure that I like the you have won redirects that they do, > they give you very little time to claim whatever and they want a cell > phone number. What's worse, it looks like they don't have a complete > episode set for either of the Star Trek series that I mentioned earlier. That would be because they are linking to illegal copies of the content, uploaded to the Internet, under the pretence that this somehow makes them magically legal. (Which, the courts of the world say, has a definite maybe attached, for linking.) If you are going to break the law, stop being a sucker, and just go download from somewhere that makes to bones about it violating the law. Seriously, there isn't a way, other than a Netflix subscription or equivalent, that any of what you are doing is going to be any more or less legal here. > The site seems too good to be true to me. Does anyone know of a > legitimate site where you download as mp4s specific old television shows > very inexpensively or free? There is no such site. It does not exist. Sorry. Daniel ...and, yes, I *know* that you think this *should* be legal. Which doesn't alter the fact that the law is, indeed, an ass, and what you want isn't in line with the current laws. -- ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
