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Originally Posted by kane
You have argued that it a movie isn't released in a certain area on DVD that a person should be allowed to download it because it isn't harming them economically.
Also, case it point. We once argued about the show Heroes. I stated that there are places in the world where Heroes doesn't air and is not available on DVD yet. You had no problem with those people downloading it because the owners of the show are not trying to sell it in that area. Never mind that they might be waiting for 100 episodes so they can sell it in syndication to that area or they might be packaging it in a different format later in that area. The downloads then could hurt them because people will have already gotten it for free and won't be paying. You didn't seem to care and thought that since it wasn't for sale now the download was okay.
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want to produce the quote where i said that exactly.
never happened.
just look at your case in point and re-read my above post. the 100 espisode syndication revenue is just like the re-runs and advertising revenue gained from blocking vcrs.
universal didn't have a "right" to that revenue.
That the point , the re-runs had to compete against the vcr for timeshifting because timeshifting is a fair use.
Access shifting just simply creates the same situation for geographic(you can't watch it because your in england) vs medium extension (you can't watch it on tape cassette)