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Originally Posted by kane
I was using this as an example of a torrent site which posts all kinds of copyrighted materials.
A torrent site has links to TV shows that have had the commercials edited out of them (not by the studio, but the person that recorded them) then the torrent site puts advertising on their site to make money from the people who come to that site to download the shows.
How is that different than if I just splice in my own commercials? I won't put any ads on my site, you can just come and download the shows for free, but Gideon thinks people should be allowed to help people get fair use access to content and they should be allowed to develop alternative revenue streams while doing it.
I'm not charging, I'm just giving people what they have the right to have, only I have developed an alternative revenue stream. Just like a torrent site does with its banner ads.
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look up public broadcast vs public transmission to make a private copy for viewing
i already address that issue in a previous thread i will not rehash it here
secondly
assuming you didn't mean violating the public broadcast restriction and simply distribute comercial laid video via the exact same method it would not work because of the free market
if you have a choice of downloading a file which wastes your hard drive space with useless comercials or a clean copy which would you download
since popularity is a virtue, it would make that download slower , and more difficult to finish.
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