Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!vda-gw!news.moat.net!news.glorb.com!tdsnet-transit!newspeer.tds.net!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-12!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Kevin Wayne Williams Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: International TV via broadband Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 08:15:52 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <10tfpfu8lh41jbd@news.supernews.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1104506936.686040.240970@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <10td2nrqt2rjq56@news.supernews.com> <33od66F426hkbU1@individual.net> <10teklnaf9umh90@news.supernews.com> <85JBd.5211$wZ2.4064@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com> In-Reply-To: <85JBd.5211$wZ2.4064@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 20 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:23977 necoandjeff wrote: > I hardly consider obtaining a copy of a television show thorugh bittorrent > to be a broadcast or a transmission. Tell me where you would draw the line > here between legal and illegal. > > 1. My parents videotape a TV show and mail the videotape > 2. My parents record a TV show digitally, burn a DVD and mail it to me > 3. My parents record a TV show digitally and e-mail or FTP the file to me > 4. My parents record a TV show digitally and transfer it to me through P2P > 5. A friend does any of 1 thorugh 4. > 6. A stranger does any of 1 through 4. I rarely say "me too" to KGII, but I think he's right. 1 and 2 are clearly good, 6 is clearly bad, and courts are going to split on 3 and 4. I also notice that none of your examples actually mimic the situation: 7: Stranger burns infinite number of copies of a TV show digitally and distributes them in foreign countries indiscriminately without the copyright holder's permission. KWW