[Wikimedia-l] Study: Nobody cares about your copyright

[Mike Dupont]

What I really find upsetting is that PBS produces videos that cannot
be watched out side of the states, it really upsets me.
Also in germany, it is just unbearable, these copyright trolls called
"GEMA" take away all the fun of youtube.
mike

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Richard Symonds
<richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> FWIW, I'd like to see things being released more freely internationally,
> irrespective of copyright. At present, I can either pirate the Colbert
> Report, or watch it through a proxy using a US netflix account which I pay
> for using a US bank account. It isn't shown anywhere in the UK.
>
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> On 21 May 2012 16:35, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 6:31 AM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 21 May 2012 13:09, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> So, is the time ripe yet for us to start pushing for a 14-year term,
>> >> or do we wait a bit? I suggest we start contemplating it, however.
>> >
>> > The most pirated bit of content at the moment appears to be game of
>> > thrones so I'm not sure what 14 years has to do with anything.
>>
>> 0 years best, but I think some unauthorized sharing data could support
>> a merely shorter term -- recent, popular titles are the most shared
>> titles, but older titles constitute bulk of sharing, and presumably
>> most in need of distributed curation. That was my takeway from
>> http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1261/712 which
>> admittedly only looks at some Hungarian filesharing networks. I'd be
>> mildly surprised if similar didn't hold true worldwide.
>>
>> Mike
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