Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #04522
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Bob Shannon bshannon@tiac.net
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:05:15 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Tilden on TV...
Simply having nobel intent does not justify disrespecting someone's property
rights.
Thats saying the ends justify the means, and thats simply wrong.
Its not up to you to decide that your intentions are good enough to take
property thats
not yours for the taking. There is a copyright after all. Why do you think
they bothered
with that? If its there property, they can distribute it according to their
intentions.
If I produced a BEAM video, would you feel that you could freely copy it, just
becuse
its to the advantage of something you find value in? So maybe this is some
huge company,
but its still there property.
If you cannot be bothered to ask for permission, and you do copy it, I hope they
sue.
Apparently a lesson or two needs to be taught here.
Just because its about BEAM does not give anyone the right to copy and
distribute
clearly copywritten material.
And its not your responsibility, nor right to distriute their property to people
who dont
have cable or other access to the material.
Burning books is not a factor here, you see, someone paid for each and every
book, so printed
matter is very different than electronic media.
Lets say you pirate the video, and someone else finds in on the web years later,
and includes it
into a CD-ROM or something, then wham, they get sued becuase you violated a
copyright.
Or do you intent to put a copy warning on your illeagal copy?
I just dont beleive people cannot understand when something does not belong to
them, its
not theirs to use.
"Feser, Jason" wrote:
> Lookey here pal. I'm not doing this to profit, I'm not doing this to make
> myself 'cool' or 'rad' or anything. I'm simply doing this so people who
> won't have the chance to see it on cable will still be able to see Tilden do
> his thing, see his robots, learn from him, possibly gain some fresh ideas
> etc. I'm not trying to take the credit or money from whoever made it -
> indeed, I'm trying to get more people exposed to it. I guess you feel this
> should be exclusive to the people who are lucky enough to afford cable or
> happen to live in a wired area?
>
> Geez, you want to burn some books while were at it?
>
> Sheesh.
It should be exclusive to the people who own it Jason, not who you see fit to
have it. Simply put, its not yours to give away, for any reason. No reason
gives
you that right to anothers property.
Is that so hard to understand?
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