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Originally Posted by gideongallery
btw if this was the burden need to establish a new fair use right
riots in the streets are the only way to justify repealing the abuse that fair use address none of the fair use we currently enjoy would exist
and none of the billion of dollar of new income would be enjoyed by the copyright holders today either
no one rioted in the streets because tv stations demanded that people schedule their lives around the airing of the tv show and it re runs (timeshifting and the vcr)
no one rioted in the streets because the record companies said you had to lugg around dozens of your favorite cd and swap them to hear your favorite songs (formating shifting and the diamond rio mp3 player)
both of those actions were an abuse, an artifical extension of the content distribution monopoly to the medium selection.
all the money, choice and new technology that was born out of that removal of that abuse is the historical proof that if this medium selection abuse is also removed (access shifting) the same thing will happen again.
in fact if you take the new technologies that indirectly spawned from format shifting , because of a commodization of pricing for solid state disks, there are potentially billions if not trillions of dollars of new technology that we can't even think of (ie from the commodization of camera components like lens and optical sensors)
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I have said before and will say it again. I don't want them to stop the development of new technology. They can develop all the technology they want. That shouldn't mean that I am forced to distribute my product via that technology if I don't want to. Whether a movie is released in all mediums the day of its theatrical release or not has no bearing on the development of technology.
The way I feel is simple. If I make a movie. I paid for it. It is mine and I own it. I should be allowed to distribute it as I see fit. If I don't want to release it in a certain medium, I should be allowed that luxury. If I don't want a particular country or group of people to have access to it, I should be allowed to restrict access to them. If someone tries to take it without my permission, I should have the right to pursue them legally for that. I see it just like owning a car. I paid for the car. It is my car. I get to decide who drives the car and under what terms that car is driven. Just because I let one person drive the car doesn't mean I have to let everyone.
If you think this violates your fair use rights, I don't care. If this upsets you, I don't care. It is my movie. If I don't want you to watch it, that is just too bad for you.
I see movies and music as art as well as a commodity and those who create that art should be allowed to distribute it as they see fit, not as you see fit.