Ahh Betamax
p2pnet.net News Opinion:- Recently, we ran an item on Sony’s sudden realization that mp3 isn’t a passing fad and that henceforth – well, soon, anyway – its players will be able to play the same tracks as, mostly, everyone else’s.
This inspired a Reader’s Write.
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On Fair Use
By _-Jile-_
Ahh Betamax – it seems so long ago (and obviously most people have forgotten it) that we won our rights to legally record movies and TV shows with our vcr’s (aka time shifting) so we could watch them later since not many of us are privileged with being rich or home jobs sitting in front of the TV all day lol.
We could give that tape to a friend for free, or let them come over to our place and watch it – all legally… Then enters US Patriot Act/DMCA and now we’re supposed to forget about the standing laws they overwrote in the interest of ‘fighting terrorism’ and ‘protecting Intellectual Property Rights’ though throwing the rest of us (the people who work and pay for people to have fun recording music and movies – we’re the real people producing product for our country.. food, shelter – real jobs and get paid jack crap for it too) into the classification of pirates and thieves for exercising fair-use by ‘not charging for use of legitimate copies that were made and shared – in the same fashion that someone could record a movie in vhs and share it LEGALLY with thousands of people and as long as NO money is charged it didn’t violate fair-use.
The people they need to worry about are the people ’selling’ their movies and songs in black markets – not little Jimmy who’s 8 and likes Britney Spears and uses p2p to get them cause its ‘cool’ until mommy and daddy go to freaking court and get fined thousands of dollars….
MP3’s and the crap quality mpg/avi movies are no better than ‘advertising’ – like listening to music on the radio…. When a good movie comes out and ppl download them – If they ‘love’ the movie (star wars saga for example) they will go to the theater because the QUALITY is so MUCH better that they HAVE to see it after getting the taster of avi/mpg – same with MP3’s except in that case the artists best bet is to have more concerts….. Though I’ll admit, for 22 cents a piece even I’d consider buying music – though I’m boycotting music and movie purchases from anyone supported through the RIAA so I’d have to check the short list of ‘which’ musicians are not RIAA backed before buying :p
The people have spoken – We’ve made ’some’ impact and the media industry ‘will’ eventually bow to our demands because ‘we’ are their sugar daddies(and mommies) – without us the poor Musicians and Actors would have to give up some of their ‘well earned (lmao)’ bling bling and not buy their 25th house in Beverly Hills (oh the travesty)….
We’re tired of going to work 2,080+ hours a year and making barely enough to survive – most of us will never own a home or ever retire in our lifetimes, so pardon us if we really don’t care if the rich get richer.
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See:-
_-Jile-_ – Sony caves in to mp3, p2pnet, September 23, 2004
September 25th, 2004 at 4:41 am
The Truth is always GOOD to READ!!!!!! Great Article!!!! The REAL Content providers are US the customer!!!!!
September 25th, 2004 at 3:54 pm
Amen brother, Amen.
One thing that sucks though… often seeing a movie in the theatre is NO guarantee of quality. In today’s craptacular megaplexs, often the quality is terrible, much worse or equal to watching a divx / svcd rip on tv at home.
I was pissed after seeing AVP in the theatre… it was small screen, out of focus and tracking was off. Seems they have started getting rid of qualified projectionists now too….
September 25th, 2004 at 3:55 pm
nice one =) i like the way p2pnet doesnt rewrite everything.
September 25th, 2004 at 9:03 pm
If the quality is crap, you shouldn’t stand for it and ask a refund.
Especially if there were projection errors.
October 2nd, 2004 at 11:31 pm
Man that last paragraphs can make someone jump off the seat and go kill Madonna, i mean THAT’S THE WAY TO TALK !