On Tuesday 12 November 2002 08:03, you wrote:
> Sorry Smitty I sort of goofed on the posting.
> I did not post the link to the article.
> Worse I can not find it now myself.
> So I will paraphase.
>
> It seems according to the article that the mover makers have given up on
> Piracy.
> They have now decided that it is better to sell access to the movie via
> Movielink
> for $2 to $3 per movie. You have the ability to download the movie and play
> it any time within one month of downloading and for 24 hours after you
> start watching.
> If I interpreted the article correctly recording would be legally allowed.
O.K. I was commenting on the cartel's party line on unlicensed copying that
they call "piracy". I don't know to what extent they would allow copying.
These are the folks who want to get rid of fair use.
Smitty
>
> On Monday 11 November 2002 21:16, Smitty wrote:
> > On Monday 11 November 2002 20:38, you wrote:
> > > LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Five top Hollywood studios opened on line box
> > > office Movielink on Monday in their first, tentative step to sell
> > > blockbuster films like "Ocean's Eleven" on the Web after years of
> > > fretting over the copyright piracy now threatening the music business.
> >
> > "Piracy" is a term that has its origins in an entertainment cartel pr
> > firm using the propaganda by redefinition of words ploy. They don't want
> > to call it what it is, unlicensed copying. Piracy has connotations of
> > desperate seaborne bandits disposed to rape, pillage and hijack.
> > Actually, this describes the characters who run the major recording
> > companies far more so than some adolescent geek ripping mp3s because he
> > doesn't make the income his dad does and he is attempting to acquire
> > those very things that the entertainment cartel has promoted as highly
> > desirable, but ironically, not affordable to a large sector of their
> > targeted public.
> >
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