Are we allowed to discuss...

[Beirut]

...downloading old music videos from the 60s?

Sorry to be a shmoo, just not sure if this is verbotten.

If so, I will promptly and not speak of it again.

[dessa14]

if the copyright still stands, then no.
thanks,
dessa

[Beirut]

Hmmmmm, good point.

Oh well.

Uh-oh... it's the cops

Beirut walks away slowly, whistling innocently...

[English assassin]

I suppose we aren't allowed to discuss file swapping at all? I think I ought to be allowed to say this though that copyright owners ought to find away to allow file sharing etc provided copyright isn't infringed (There that last bit made it all right didn't it).

Think of it like this: imagine if the only way you could read a book was to buy it. You couldn't borrow it off a friend and there were no such things as libraries. If someone came along with this great idea called a "library" and all the publishers said no way man it would be the end of reading as we know it, and anyway its a breach of copyright, we'd all think well maybe we ought to mix those copyright laws up a bit, then, hey? Instead there is something called a public lending right and everyone is happy.

I'm down on digital rights protection generally. Its too intrusive. And as for sueing fans well I don't agree with that either though I suppose we should be grateful they haven't made it criminal yet.

Its not as if the music industry uses all this revenue to promote many good bands anyway its usually music by numbers crap.

[LittleGrizzly]

well aslong as you bought the original video's its ok beirut. Which im sure you did just downloaded them to get them on your pc

as i understand it music sales have gone up in a time when sales of most other things have been dropping, so saying they need to pursue downloaders to protect young up and coming artists is rubbish. They've been helped most by the internet (that is the ones without a massive record company PR campaign behind them)

[Beirut]

Well, if the stuff was on European TV thirty years ago, and was put onto a computer and then swapped, is that the same as stealing new music?

What about concert footage that was privately filmed by some stoner in the stadium. Is that verbotten as well?

I'm not trying to start a fuss, I'm just curious.