On 12/8/06, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
How does that follow? And the goalposts are
moving -- just because there
aren't commercially available copies doesn't make watching a copy of a
show
illegal, much as the recording industry would
like it to be so.
See Betamax v. Universal<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._v._Universal_City_Studios>
You can make copies for personal use, showing them to anyone else
would be illegal.
That's not true.
We can't rely on people having seen the show or
recorded it themselves when it was originally aired.
Again, what "illegal copies"?
I'm not sure I understand the question... The only copies you can get
hold of after a show airs and before it is released on DVD are
illegal.
That is not true.
Obviously someone is accessing the sources. You have a
strange definition
of
"no-one".
Yes, they accessed them once when it was shown on TV. Saying that
people having seen in on TV counts as verifying it would be like
saying you can cite "People seeing him outside the supermarket" as the
source of the fact that a certain celebrity shops there on the grounds
that anyone that was at the supermarket on that day can verify it.
Again, people do record shows. Perfectly legally.
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