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The reason you only see WMV files is because HDTV files are probably so large it would be impractical to attempt sending them over the Internet. Even compressed WMV files can be quite large, depending on content. Downloading such a series in HDTV could take days, even with broadband.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Copied off the Air and 'shared' much better again....
The original Mona Lisa should be public domain, I think it predates even the concept of copyright. If someone wanted to take a photo of the original painting and distribute his own copies of it I don't see where there would be a problem with that,
Now if you distribute copies of someone else's photo without their permission, that would be another matter entirely.
(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. If you want legal advice on this, go see a lawyer.)
I don't know which attitude this mindset reflects more of, greed or arrogance. Seems to me this is like cutting off your nose to spite your face, as the old expression goes.
I don't see how people who do such things benefit from them any way whatsoever, and they just spoil things for everyone else.
If the entertainment industry had their way, everything would be copyright forever, there'd be no public domain and no such thing as fair use.
It's not far from that now. Under current copyright law it's not inconceivable for the term of copyright on a given work to last over 150 years, and if Disney is going to get another 20, 50 or who knows how long extension of term every time their copyright on Mickey Mouse is about to expire, then for all practical purposes the term of copyright is already "forever".
And the scope of copyright is just as ridiculous. Anything that can be reduced to a tangible medium automatically receives a copyright as soon as that is done. Even your baby's scribble on a sheet of paper! Even buildings can be copyrighted. Is it infringement to photograph your city's skyline if such a building incidentally appears in the picture? Can individual bricks be copyrighted? To what extreme can these absurdities be carried out?
I think it's high time copyright law be returned to its originally mandated purpose, scope and time limits, to provide authors a *limited* time monopoly for the purpose of encouraging new works, and allowing building on previous works as old copyrights expire, instead of the endless gravy train for the entertainment industry it has become.
If the copyright lobby and the music industry have their way, eventually they'll have everything so locked up you won't be able to listen to a song once without having to buy a license, and you will be arrested for whistling any copyrighted song in public. There will be no such thing as fair use or public domain, and they'll find some way to lock up even what is now in the public domain. And the term of copyright will be forever, because every time somebody's copyright is about to expire the term will be extended another 20, 30, 50, ???? years, to where it never ends.
Maybe I'm being a bit sarcastic, but that's where I see it going if the present trend continues.
Re: With regards to the message of RIAA to schools:
And how many potential customers has RIAA run off by suing them? And people who don't even have computers? And 80 year old grandmothers? And even the dead!
This reminds me of a funny story I heard when I was working for the Associated Press back in the Teletype days many years ago.
A correspondent for the AP had a habit of starting stories, then if he didn't like what he'd written, ripping the unfinished copy out of the typewriter and tossing it in the trash. Well, while he was at lunch the correspondent for a rival news service who shared the same room would come over and raid his trash can and pick up some hot leads for his own stories. Eventually the AP guy found out what was going on, started a phony story about some impropriety by a state legislator and planted it in his trash can. True to form, his rival retrieved the loaded story and put it on his wire without even bothering to check the facts. Turned out there wasn't a word of it true. To the best of my knowledge that was the last time he ever raided the AP's trash can.
I have been saying for a long time now I believe the end result of all these ever increasing "intellectual property" protections is going to be the economy melting down in a sea of litigation as patent holders push for ever stronger protections and attempt to enforce them on anyone having anything remotely resembling the claims of their patents.
On the copyright side it seems the record companies are determined to make criminals of all otherwise law abiding citizens who don't bow down to their decreed rules of their outmoded, outdated business models.
I wonder...if the copyright industry had their way, would consumers have any rights at all? Or would you have to buy a license every time you listened to a song on your radio?
I fear the AP is following on the same path UPI was on when it crashed and burned some years ago-getting rid of all its ground level help, bloated management, and now an RIAA mentality, Quoting five words is piracy if you don't pay u$.
I see AP as a $2 million Buhgatti complete with 1000 horsepower engine, finest leather upholstery, power everything and every possible amenity a car can offer, sitting on blocks because the owner can't afford wheels for it.
Wake up, AP, you're about to get left in a cloud of dust!
in your business, then sue. They don't seem to think that this type of activity alienates possible customers.
You'd think people would learn this after a while. Here in the USA we have two outfits which seem to have adopted this business model, the RIAA and its associated record companies, and the SCO Group, a two-bit software company which has been carrying on a nuisance lawsuit against four of its customers for six years now and refuses to quit. And neither seems to understand why its business is tanking.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Copied off the Air and 'shared' much better again....
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Copied off the Air and 'shared' much better again....
Now if you distribute copies of someone else's photo without their permission, that would be another matter entirely.
(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. If you want legal advice on this, go see a lawyer.)
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Greed or arrogance
I don't see how people who do such things benefit from them any way whatsoever, and they just spoil things for everyone else.
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Copyright forever
It's not far from that now. Under current copyright law it's not inconceivable for the term of copyright on a given work to last over 150 years, and if Disney is going to get another 20, 50 or who knows how long extension of term every time their copyright on Mickey Mouse is about to expire, then for all practical purposes the term of copyright is already "forever".
And the scope of copyright is just as ridiculous. Anything that can be reduced to a tangible medium automatically receives a copyright as soon as that is done. Even your baby's scribble on a sheet of paper! Even buildings can be copyrighted. Is it infringement to photograph your city's skyline if such a building incidentally appears in the picture? Can individual bricks be copyrighted? To what extreme can these absurdities be carried out?
I think it's high time copyright law be returned to its originally mandated purpose, scope and time limits, to provide authors a *limited* time monopoly for the purpose of encouraging new works, and allowing building on previous works as old copyrights expire, instead of the endless gravy train for the entertainment industry it has become.
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Re: Re: Re: Am I really the first to say this?
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Re: Re: SOP for criminal law.
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Maybe I'm being a bit sarcastic, but that's where I see it going if the present trend continues.
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Re: Try Again
Yep. Like the Piltdown man (later proven to be a hoax) created from half a jawbone of an ape treated with acid to make it look old.
Like the Java man, created from bones of different ages found in different places at different times.
Like the Nebraska Ice man, a whole race of people, clothing, lifestyles and all, created from-get this!-one molar tooth of a wild pig!Who in their right mind would call that scientific?
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Re: With regards to the message of RIAA to schools:
Go figure!
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News piracy
A correspondent for the AP had a habit of starting stories, then if he didn't like what he'd written, ripping the unfinished copy out of the typewriter and tossing it in the trash. Well, while he was at lunch the correspondent for a rival news service who shared the same room would come over and raid his trash can and pick up some hot leads for his own stories. Eventually the AP guy found out what was going on, started a phony story about some impropriety by a state legislator and planted it in his trash can. True to form, his rival retrieved the loaded story and put it on his wire without even bothering to check the facts. Turned out there wasn't a word of it true. To the best of my knowledge that was the last time he ever raided the AP's trash can.
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12 second clip?
Good grief!
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Kazoo quackers
For stuff like this, they deserve to be made the butt of bad jokes.
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You've been hacked!
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You've been hacked!
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You've been hacked!
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Patent meltdown, IP criminals
On the copyright side it seems the record companies are determined to make criminals of all otherwise law abiding citizens who don't bow down to their decreed rules of their outmoded, outdated business models.
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Re: Anonymous coward
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Just how far do these people want to go?
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Following in the footsteps of UPI?
I see AP as a $2 million Buhgatti complete with 1000 horsepower engine, finest leather upholstery, power everything and every possible amenity a car can offer, sitting on blocks because the owner can't afford wheels for it.
Wake up, AP, you're about to get left in a cloud of dust!
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Re: When you can 't compete
You'd think people would learn this after a while. Here in the USA we have two outfits which seem to have adopted this business model, the RIAA and its associated record companies, and the SCO Group, a two-bit software company which has been carrying on a nuisance lawsuit against four of its customers for six years now and refuses to quit. And neither seems to understand why its business is tanking.
You reap what you sow.
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