Re: "Sleeping in Light" - Ten years ago

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:36:59 GMT, Amy Guskin <aisling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:21:00 -0500, thus spake Alan Dicey (in article
<PuudnRIKoc2PhrvUnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

Amy Guskin wrote:
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:54:56 -0500, thus spake Mike Ross (in article
<3g8bi4pi7qa8vm7cpf8e5vbl3ig44isg0g@xxxxxxx>):

I remember heading down the M11 to the Fedex depot at
Stansted airport, where the SiL tape had just arrived from the USA... <<

Awww, you had to go and spoil a nice memory by telling us that you
infringed
on JMS's copyright... :-(

Amy

Amy,


This is beneath you.


Private copy, for private consumption. No intent to defraud, no
redistribution? Just a fan, sharing with other trufans, his deep
appreciation of the authors works?

Do you have any understanding of how fandom works?

Really, I feel quite ill after reading that. <

Sorry, we'll have to agree to disagree. And for the record, that's how I
felt -- quite ill -- after reading what Mike posted. Posted _here_, where
JMS hangs out and posts. I thought it was rather disrespectful. JMS has
made his feelings about copyright infringement pretty clear over the years.

OK I did *not* want to make this a copyright thread, but since quite a few
people are jumping in and running with it, I think I had better defend myself.

Maybe I'm suffering from bit-rot, but does anyone else recall JMS *encouraging*
people to get together, and have informal SiL watching parties? I'm pretty sure
it's NOT bit-rot, this was discussed at the time:

http://groups.google.com/group/uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5.social/msg/fc5af91e69a5a8f8?hl=en

It's a rather strange approach to copyright to claim that's it copyright
infringment for a husband to watch a show taped by his wife, with some friends
in a private home. If that concept really makes someone feel 'quite ill'... well
I don't know where to start really. Especially when that person has herself
admitted to watching it with a bunch of friends.

I'm tempted to describe that as Copyright Nazism, just to Godwin the thread...

Mike
--
http://www.corestore.org
'As I walk along these shores
I am the history within'

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