Re: Starcade / Mike is correct: Too much stolen anime.

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:51:35 -0400, billnes@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello,

I purchased Forte Agent and started downloading from the anime
binary newsgroups. As of this writing, I am in the middle of
downloading Sky Girls and Secret of Cerulean Sand. The amount of anime
on just four (4) diffrent NG's is startling. I don't think I need
Pokemon dubbed into German, or Ghost In the Shell at Blu-Ray
resolution, but it's out there - basically for free. The only thing I
really paid for is my license for Forte Agent. Didn't then-president
Clinton sign a bill saying that it's illegal to post copyrighted work
on the Usenet Newsgroups? What ever happened there?

You misspelled "Gerald Ford" there... The applicable law has been around
in one form or another longer than the Internet has, but the current law
was first enacted in 1976. (It was most recently amended in 2006.)

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/


I only vaugly
remember one of the uber-smart anime/tech people within the Long
Island (New York) I-Con Convention saying that the DMCR got ripped to
shreds by a lot of diffrent groups. However, I don't remember any of
the details of what I was told. I can only guess that Starcade/Mike
would be willing to fill me in on the details.

I assume this is something he claimed after I killfiled his posts.


After seeing all this anime, I realized: Why the hell should I waste
time watching the advertisements on Chrunchyroll or Hulu? It's such a
monumental waste of time. I have CableVision's Optimum Online. I can
set my PC to download overnight or while I'm in the shower and have
commericial-free anime waiting for me when I wake up. Why bother
spending money on discs, or non-free digital downloads??

Desire to pay for the intellectual property you experience. (Yes, this
is a major factor - look at the net from sales of the "Doctor Borrible's
Sing-Along Blog" DVDs, to give a directly-applicable example. Examples
that are of less direct applicability include sales of books available
on the Baen Free Library, and sales of Radiohead's latest CD.)

Desire to abide by the law.

Surety that you're getting what you want. (Who knows what data or virus
might be in that file available for download?)

Quality.

Ease of use.


Mike, please excuse and forgive me. I went with the crowd and called
you a wackaloon and an asshat (just like everybody else) without
really thinking or doing research. After seeing what's available for
free download (once you purchase the correct software), I must say
that you were (and still are) correct: The business model must change.

As I recall, it was Sea Wasp who was saying the business model needed to
change. (I'm the first to admit my recall is not 100% accurate.)

Signal encryption?? Only part of the issue. IMHO, for every one person
writing encryption code, there are at least three people writing code
to crack the same exact encryption that only one person is working on.
I think this has been as obvious as a slap across the face since the
dawn of Macrovision for VHS tape.

Add the perception, rightly or wrongly, that encryption degrades signal
quality (thanks to early implementations of Macrovision, among others),
and the public's desire for encrypted artworks is slim to none.

You asked me to ban you from I-Con ahead of time. Absolutely not. I
think you'd make a welcome addition to the I-Con family. Thank you
very much for your time, effort and consideration in this matter. I
hope to hear from you soon.

I'd be extremely wary of inviting to a convention _anyone_ who wants to
be banned from that convention.

--
Rob Kelk Personal address (ROT-13): eboxryx -ng- tznvy -qbg- pbz
"As for bootlegging: Every PDF, every book, every film, and every
piece of software ever released is available, somewhere, in a format
the copyright holders don't want it to be in. It is inescapable and
unstoppable. We trust our true fans to not pull crap like that ..."
- Paul Chapman (Marketing Director, Steve Jackson Games), 25 Nov 2008
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