tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post5691748704849760847..comments2024-03-18T11:43:53.754+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: Sony lawyer insists $150,000 a fair price for an unlicensed uploadSimon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-64306535593595024452009-06-17T09:24:14.576+00:002009-06-17T09:24:14.576+00:00Well, to act as an effective deterrent, the severi...Well, to act as an effective deterrent, the severity of the penalty must be exponentially proportional to the probability of getting away with it, and unfortunately for the MAFIAA, copyright infringement is not yet a capital crime.acbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18061622604918951972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-83872982641101802432009-06-16T23:00:41.656+00:002009-06-16T23:00:41.656+00:00Slightly off topic but I spotted a frustrating and...Slightly off topic but I spotted a frustrating and baffling piracy one earlier on the bbc site. It as a thing from some guy from Kudos, the company that makes Spooks, saying that piracy will kill quality TV. I didn't bother watching the video because I wouldn't have been able to hear it over my own rage at such a stupid bloody comment. How will it kill quality TV? I can only presume that he is suggesting that piracy takes money away from DVD sales or subscription services but I seem to remember that twenty years ago people didn't buy TV series on VHS in the quantity they do nowadays (hell, even ten years ago) and subscription services (SKY, BSB, etc.) were still in their infancy. Yet TV companies were able to make quality TV. Ten years further back than that and there was neither of these options and yet there was still quality TV. Perhaps he concerned about advertisers stopping buying TV space but I've not noticed any decline (not that it should effect his license funded show). I'll not even go into the fact that I can probably watch his show for free legally on iPlayer. What I would suggest is more of a threat to quality TV is dragging out an idea (which may well have been entertaining but, lets face it, was never particularly original) for seven series and then moaning about how you're not getting to make more TV? I wouldn't let you either. At least in music recording industry you can understand the problem even if their method of dealing with it is absurd ($150k is having a laugh) and based on their false belief that they deserve an industry that only exists because of the technology available at the time it began. In TV land, they really have no argument at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-36114084333716276032009-06-16T21:22:24.171+00:002009-06-16T21:22:24.171+00:00Incredible. It would be difficult to estimate the ...Incredible. It would be difficult to estimate the billions blogspot users would owe if this were the case.patrickhttp://therevolutionaryartist.comnoreply@blogger.com