badger, I think Dave was referring to his emails to this group, not to the
BBC.
But even if he has written to the BBC, we don’t name-call here. The bulk of
this email conveys very useful information, it didn’t need the personal stuff.
Anyone who doesn’t follow my one rule of “be nice”, will be out. I hope I
don’t have to show I mean it.
cheers, Dean
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [just-a-minute] Missing JAMs
| > "I wonder if my recent email asking what the BBC
|
thought of our file sharing might be connected with removals from
Mediafire. I trust not. But you never know! "
Are you
serious?
You wrote to the copyright holder asking for their opinion
of file sharing and blatant breach of the relevant laws, at best you are
naive and worst stupid.
What do you think their answer might be?
Honestly!
"Oh! that's OK please feel free to distribute our
copyrighted programme content around the world breaking various local and
international laws and those of the file sharing sites who's Terms and
conditions clearly state that you are not allowed to host content for
which you do not hold copyright for."
In case you think that
Australian law excludes Just A Minute I suggest you read your local law on
this matter: http://www.ag.gov.au/Copyright/Pages/default.aspx I'm
sure you will be aware of the current AFL/Optus copyright case, so
copyright theft is high profile and anyone that is indulging such acts
will want to "keep quiet about it".
The issue you might counter
with is to suggest we are "time shifting" the broadcasts but this is not
the case as we are sharing beyond the national/regional limits of the
original broadcast and "media shifting" where the copyright material is
transposed to MP3 format for onward transmission. Both points specifically
forbidden under the T&Cs of the various sources from which "copies"
are taken.
The BBC as the copyright holder will be tied to their
contractual agreements with the programme performers who would (probably)
otherwise receive payment from future sales of the programme content;
which a court case would argue that we are depriving them of.
If
this Yahoo Group disappears overnight - it's a fair bet that it will be as
a result of a "cease and desist" notice to the cappers and this Yahoo
Group owner, who probably do not wish the floodlight of litigation to
focus on them because a fool waved a flag at the
BBC.
http://info.yahoo.com/copyright/us/details.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement
Read
the two links above to understand exactly what you have put at risk not
only to the group but the kind people that infringe copyright for your
pleasure.
I take it back; you are not a naive fool
you are, with respect, a moron.