Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Was that a bid or an offer?
I pondered that for a second too, but unless the money system is very different over there, it wouldn't make sense to go from "how about it?" to "No? What if you pay me?" as a second attempt.
Maybe it works with the serious perverts who can only get excited when it costs.
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Er, I do. The distinction, and what it says about the origin of copyright, is actually central to the debate.
Well, I meant the three or four people he was arguing with.
I think it does matter. If you start producing and selling "Kyle's Lager", and I go around putting up billboards saying that "Kyle's Lager is a fatal poison", will you be happy in the knowledge that my comments on your product "[d]oesn't change what it is"?
I think your wee tale is sufficiently different (wildly) from theft/copyright infringement to not be very useful. Obviously there are instances where the label attached to something is important. I just don't think this is one of those cases.
I find the arguments about it (theft vs copyright infringement) turn me off getting involved in the debate, I'd much rather the debate was about the substance. I thought the original opinion piece in the Herald was pretty good overall, but not perfect, Mark ripped into it and called the author an idiot. If that's how you treat people that are arguing on your side, imperfectly as it may be, then I'd hate to see how you'd treat your enemies.
The distinction is important because calling it "theft" necessarily implies that copyright infringment is a criminal act, and that copyright infringers are criminals, which is just factually untrue.
OK. And I think that the millions of people around the world that do it in its various forms are all aware of what they're doing, and most don't care whether the people who put the messages at the beginning of DVDs call it theft.
(I think I've been around this circle about 3 times before so I won't bother again).
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Come on people, I'll easliy pay $40 apiece ... don't make watch them on the Internet!
Ironic (having just come from the copyright thread), how DVD regions, designed to protect the company making the DVD and make money for them, stops a lot of people buying DVDs.
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You can discuss the nature of theft if it rocks your socks. What I object to is the equating of copyright infringement with theft.
Yes, well done on arguing that point 15 times, that no one else particularly cares about.
I'll repeat, I don't think most people care if you call it theft, stealing, infringement, liberating or 'bagel'. Doesn't change what it is.
If you're going to get into big arguments about the language that people use, when its their language and they've stated their happy with it, you're not going to impress many people. Which surely is part of the point if you're trying to get laws changed.
And this is our forum as much as yours Mark, so no not 'tough'. Take a chill pill.
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But if you think that no principles are up for discussion, but just the technicalities of how to apply the existing copyright laws in the new tech environment, say so.
Which would be ironic given that there's been a lot of argument against the current laws, often on points of principle.
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This is not hair-splitting. It's fundamental to the matter. If you won't understand this, you should get out of the debate and go and live your moral lives somewhere else.
It's good to know that downloading music and TV shows that you haven't paid for isn't a moral issue. I feel much better about doing it now.
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Have to give Montalban credit for resisting pressure to 'Anglicise' his name -- like Martin Sheen -- back in the day
Martin Sheen (born Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez) actually didn't anglicise it as much as just choose a whole new stage name. He adopted it from a Catholic Archbishop he admired, who was an early TV religious figure.
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And re: TVNZ freeview and sport, not a hell of a lot. Look at all the sport they've given away over the past three years.
Sky has both of the next Olympics I think. Which might be my impetus to get sky in order to get the Winter Games next year.
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The University of Otago library will no longer (they do have some stock which they recorded themselves) accept material taken off the TV. They also probably wouldn't format shift it, but they have a bunch of VHS players however.
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you are now not only conspiring to theft, according to the good folks at MED creating the ACTA agreement you are in the same bucket as terrorists, arms dealers and drug smugglers.
Only if they're working really hard at it.
Daily show streams in full from their web site, freely available (the player they use is a pain however).