Who cares if it's immoral? It's illegal. Quit trying to justify stealing **** and buy the DVD.
Who cares if it's immoral? It's illegal. Quit trying to justify stealing **** and buy the DVD.
Who cares if it's immoral? It's illegal. Quit trying to justify stealing **** and buy the DVD.
None of the options reflect my exact opinion---it is illegal, but the laws may have exceeded the scope of the Constitutional authority to create them. They should be shortened significantly and then become part of the public domain........
Article I, section 8
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
I'm normally right on board with you, buuuut...
I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened - The Oatmeal
...which describes my own experience with uncanny spookiness.
You've hit right at what I'm wondering about. Copyrights don't last forever, nor should they. They expire at some point. The plays of George Bernard Shaw, the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, the plays and poems of William Shakespeare all have expired copyrights. That fact does not hurt any of these men financially.
What I'm wondering with my question is if perhaps 40 years is about the right cutoff point for TV shows. Is there anyone who worked on Leave it to Beaver or Father Knows Best or some show from that era who would be hurt financially if those copyrights were expired? It seems like the purpose of copyright is to allow the creator of a work to reap rewards from it.
Are you able to verbalize what right you think you have to the creative work of others if they haven't chosen to allow that right to you? Perhaps just because you want it and that is all the ethics you need?
Who cares if it's immoral? It's illegal. Quit trying to justify stealing **** and buy the DVD.
Heh, that is me as well. Add to the mix that I am always stationed overseas, where things like Hulu aren’t authorized and even if they were the internet speed would make it impractical for streaming. I don’t deal with DVDs anymore. For one, Amazon often won’t mail DVDs to where I am. And you can’t find legal copies locally. Go to Cambodia and try to find a legal version of ANY DVD. You won’t succeed.
And on top of that is the whole Region specific DVD issue which is a pain for me since I bounce around from continent to continent. I stick solely with digital media when it comes to my TV shows and movies. When there is something I want to watch I ALWAYS go to itunes first to see if I can purchase it. Even if it is expensive I will pay for it.
But if there is not a way for me to download it and pay for it, then I will download it and not pay for it. I refuse to not watch a show just because the producers refuse to allow me to purchase it the correct way.
Heh, that is me as well. Add to the mix that I am always stationed overseas, where things like Hulu aren’t authorized and even if they were the internet speed would make it impractical for streaming. I don’t deal with DVDs anymore. For one, Amazon often won’t mail DVDs to where I am. And you can’t find legal copies locally. Go to Cambodia and try to find a legal version of ANY DVD. You won’t succeed.
And on top of that is the whole Region specific DVD issue which is a pain for me since I bounce around from continent to continent. I stick solely with digital media when it comes to my TV shows and movies. When there is something I want to watch I ALWAYS go to itunes first to see if I can purchase it. Even if it is expensive I will pay for it.
But if there is not a way for me to download it and pay for it, then I will download it and not pay for it. I refuse to not watch a show just because the producers refuse to allow me to purchase it the correct way.
A vpn will deal with the overseas problem, though as far as download speeds go you're on your own.
I'm asking when copyrights should expire. When do you think they should? Or do you think they should never expire? Do you think the works of Edgar Allan Poe should still be copyrighted even though he's been dead since 1849?
Copying content in whatever fashion and giving that to someone else is not stealing.
Not true. If I were to, say, copy the Mona Lisa, the resulting work would be different on pretty much every level: done in a different time, by different hands, different pigments, different materials, brushwork doesn't have the same finesse, etc. Digital technology changes that. A digital copy of a file is literally no different in quality than the original, so copying it doesn't result in a unique and different work, but the same exact work.
True and I often use a VPN for accessing media blocked in my assigned country. The problem is the streaming speed on sites like Hulu that don't allow you to buffer more than a couple minutes of the show.
Copying something no matter the success of the copy is not stealing.
That doesn't address anything I said.
I think they're going about it all wrong. They shouldn't be trying to sell their music, they should use their music like a TV show, where's it what attracts the audience who the artist then enforces products to.Stealing is stealing regardless of who you're stealing from, but if you're priority is making sure the money goes to the artist, then Liam is certainly on the mark. Increased popularity will fill the concert seats more, and that's where they'll really make their money.
As an artist myself, however, I am represented by an agent who has been instrumental in building some of my popularity and connecting me to a good number of clients. I have resented attempts by people to crassly work around my relationship with my agent, as if my agent were a parasite instead of a legitimate business partner. Obviously it's not always like that since there are tons of stories of record companies and artists loathing each other. My only point is that that sort of relationship shouldn't be assumed.
Wasn't that the unintended result of government action on Hulu a while back?
I think they're going about it all wrong. They shouldn't be trying to sell their music, they should use their music like a TV show, where's it what attracts the audience who the artist then enforces products to.
I don't have a passionate position on this topic one way or other.
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