Hello World...

[Alan Milewczyk]

Agreed totally with your comments. Digital technology changed the game 
totally.

A

On 05/11/2014 17:22, artisticforge . wrote:
> Hello;My point was that industry was content to allow VHS recording because
> they knew that each duplication of the tape would degrade the quality
> . Therefore, VHS recording was essentially self limiting. With
> advances in technology inexpensive DVD burners, BluRay burners, etc.
> They are no longer content to turn a blind eye.
> There were other various reasons that impacted the industry's thinking
> at the time. VHS and cassette tapes had a limited life-time. The VHS
> tapes had to be physically stored by the person making the recording.
> This storage requirement limited the number of tapes a person would
> maintain. Many people simply recorded over older programmes thereby
> limiting the potential for distribution of that material. The same was
> true of cassette tapes albeit to a lesser extent.
>
> hard drives, USB drives, memory cards have changed all that. the
> amount of data that a person may archive on Terabyte
> drives is somewhat hard to comprehend. The ease at which digital
> copies could now be "shared" was a game changer.
> The piracy sites sprung up funded by the porn ads they displayed.
>
> Nowadays, a person may go to the cinema and video the entire film with
> their smartphone. within hours it would be
> on dozens of pirate sites.
>
> Pirates Bay is still operating.
> The founders have only just recently been arrested and/or sentenced to
> jail time.
> it was only recently that thebox.bz was taken down by the site operators.
> the "rewards" no longer out weighed the "potential punishments."
>
> My friends at Big FInish Productions saw their series Sapphire and
> Steel essentially killed off solely because of piracy.
>
> Peoples investments and employment is at stake.
> There has to be a reasonable compromise that does not seemingly demand
> that the Treasury doors be unlocked so the Treasury may be plundered.
>
> No doubt programmes will be pirated no matter what is done to stop or
> discourage it.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Nick <nick at i.lucanops.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:51:48 +0200
>> J <j at mailsorter.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> artisticforge . wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>> get_iplayer, bypasses all of that and is grabbing a digital copy of
>>>> the BBC content. there is a fundamental difference.
>>>>
>>> I don't follow your overall argument. My Foxsat DVR grabs digital
>>> copies of broadcast media and the cheapo sat card in my PC similarly
>>> dumps the ts straight to disk. I can hear/view those files without
>>> restriction and anyone in the UK could do the same.
>> I started a reply and gave up because of the contradictory nature. It
>> seems he was OK with people using the best technology in the past (VHS
>> era), but these days people should not use the best technology can
>> offer.
>>
>> We should use artificially complicated and limited things instead so
>> that it is like the past. Screen capture means the computer cannot be
>> used as a general purpose device, it has to be used as a recording
>> machine while the thing is on. Plus there are supposedly shortcomings
>> with the software, it doesn't do what it is meant to very well by the
>> sounds of it.
>>
>> But of course in the past a major US movie exec hammed it up in court
>> trying to get home video tech banned to protect cinemas and the movie
>> biz status-quo. But those benefiting off the status-quo mostly ended
>> up with a better lot, home video tech opened the door for rentals and
>> video sales. What worry about things now is likely mis-guided.
>>
>> Nick
>>
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