superstringer

March 14th, 2011 at 2:24 PM ^

Dudes, I know the younguns in this day n age like the idea of massive dissemination of media, immediate access, everything-is-for-everyone.  Some malcontent older folks do, too.

But, we got these things called LAWS.  They often are inconvenient and designed by miserly mean people (=Republicans) (and =Democrats operating within budgetary limitations) (like any of THOSE exist) to inhibit the fun and free lives of Americans.  But, well, we have them.

Downloading TV shows that are available elsewhere under license for charge is a rather blatant infringement of the Copyright Act.  There is likely a copyright statement to that effect in the credits of the show, although that would not be required.  There is plenty of caselaw that probably supports that a TV show like this is not free for downloading.

Consequently, download at your peril.

If you neg me, it's only because you dont WANT it to be true.  But, sorry, it is what it is.

You want a legal solution? They are called VCRs, DVRs, and Tivo.  Look into them.  The show times are made public and if you copy it yourself for your own home use, it's perfectly legal.  Downloading over the internet, not so much.

What better motivation?

WTF ARE YOU THINKING?  ARE YOU SPARTY?

ARE YOU, WHAT, GONNA GO SELL YOUR BIG 10 RINGS NOW AND GET A FREE TAT WHILE YOU'RE AT IT???

ACT LIKE CLASS!

 

superstringer

March 14th, 2011 at 2:59 PM ^

How is it unwelcome politics if I'm bashing both sides of the aisle?  In an obviously J/K comment?

And weren't the caps intended to draw attention to the final points?

Geesh, I think you try to hard to find reasons to neg something honest that you can't really refute.  If YOU were over 12 and, like, had a law degree from a top-3 institution, you might actually be able to carry on a cogent discussion about the issue.  Guess not, huh.

superstringer

March 14th, 2011 at 3:05 PM ^

I totally agree.  If it were free in some other simple way, the "market" dries up.

(The perfect example of the economics you describe is paparazzi and stars.  Stars complain about paparazzi always following them; well that's because of a market for free photos of the stars in daily situations.  if the stars had their OWN photographers taking pictures of them daily and publishing them, the paparazzi would disappear b/c papers would have free sources of the same photos.)

I would say, thought, I bet ESPN's contracts with cable providers makes it impossible for ESPN to webhost their own content, except within limitation.  There are also probably bandwith issues there.  Like, SportsCenter is not yet online either, you'd think that would be.  I have seen the TV commercials for ESPN streaming over the internet, but I wonder if you can access anything that isn't live (actually airing at that moment).

Or why dont they all cut to the chase and just provide ALL TV over the internet.  Isn't it heading that way anyway?

 

yostlovesme

March 14th, 2011 at 3:22 PM ^

I DVRed this last night and I have watched three times already.  I get chills whenever it starts.  Phenomenal.  It is really hurting my brackets today cause I have filled out dozens at work and since I watched this so many times 90% of them have Michigan winning.  Shock the world.

M-Dog

March 14th, 2011 at 10:03 PM ^

However, I will stand up for Bobby Hurley in this respect:  It is a misconception to think that just because he played for Duke, he was this lilly white spoiled little rich kid from the suburbs.

He was an in-your-face Jersey kid from Jersey City (not a very nice place) that could go toe to toe with any trash talking from Detroit.

He sounds ready to go at it again with Jalen Rose and Jimmy King on the audio. Good stuff. 

Hornet's nest, meet stick.  The Duke=Uncle Tom stuff is going to blow up.  If we wind up playing them in the Tournament on Sunday, look for lots of buzz about it.