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There would be artists who actually have control over their work instead of contracts that give everything to the mother company and a tiny percentage to the creative genius. Nodsu said:. Who says what is "proper" compensation? Also, copyright does not mean authorship. A company may be making millions, while the original author may have just gotten his wee monthly salary and nothing more.
So, say, there was a TV episode that was broadcast all over the nation and got million "paid" views. How am I hurting the author or the copyright holder if I add 5 "unpaid" views to that?
And how is it different from, say, watching cable at my friend's? Sure, he paid for his cable, but I and the other guests didn't. So we are stealing the TV episode, aren't we?! Using that logic, I think that we should rob a bank. After all, with all of their trillions of dollars in assets, how will a few hundred thousand taken from them hurt anyone? The cable TV analogy doesn't work, either. Cable providers charge based upon an average viewing household in their market and anticipate and allow such viewership.
Stealing is still stealing The marketplace, of course. Well, I suspect that this thread is going nowhere and will shortly be closed, but I will reply one more time: Nodsu said:. There is no such thing as "marketplace". It's a fantasy of some loony economics professors.
In real world we have legislation, monopolies, psychological pressure, NDAs, imprisoning contracts, misinformation, FUD and ignorance. That money I did not rob is indeed an asset.
A TV show I did not download is not an asset. A book that I did not buy can still be sold. A DVD I did not rent was rented by someone else. And how much do my 5 "unpaid" views skew that average that was anticipated for tousands of households? The total viewership is exactly the same, is it not?. As I mentioned above, this thing is legal in many countries.
Actually, in this case "stealing" is what some collection of corrupt officials decided to write in some law somewhere. And now I tell you. Drop everything you are doing and make your fortunes in something completely different.
You are not allowed to use any ideas or methods you have developed this far, because these belong to me. Try telling that to the TV producers, actors, screenwriters, etc.
If your friend made a point of inviting one hundred of his nearest and dearest friends to his house every night and those one hundred friends never felt the need to pay for cable TV, themselves, it would have an effect on the cable provider and the rates would go up slightly for everyone else.
But, since just about all officials are corrupt we certainly agree on that point , this argument can be made about any law, including bank robbery. There would be no civilisation if copyright was inherent to humankind.
If every song or scientific work or an idea was "copyrighted" and people obeyed that, we would still be somewhere in the dark ages burning the bard from the next village because he dared to sing a verse made up by our village singer.
You must log in or register to reply here. Currently, the most common methods used to download programs are very similar to file-sharing systems already being challenged in courts around the world. There are also legal ways to download TV, usually by purchasing individual episodes or full seasons from a company that has the legal right to redistribute the programs. The technology to download television shows — legally or otherwise — is widely available, and sales of the equipment that allow digital recordings have not been outlawed.
Digital video recorder DVR devices allow users to record and save television shows, and some even allow them to be transferred to a computer or burned to a DVD. These devices may also allow the user to pause live television and skip commercials on recorded programs at the press of a button. In at least the US, DVRs fall under the same protection as video cassette recorders VCRs , with the user agreeing to not distribute the recorded material commercially and do all viewing in a private home.
With the advent of streaming video and broadband Internet services, however, the legality of downloading television shows has become less clear in many cases. Producing a primetime comedy or drama can be a very expensive venture for network executives.
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