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From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
In article <10b3j27$b2i4$1@dont-email.me>,
The True Doctor wrote:
>On 25/09/2025 13:26, Daniel70 wrote:
>> On 25/09/2025 12:42 am, The True Doctor wrote:
>>> On 24/09/2025 14:13, Blueshirt wrote:
>>>> The True Melissa wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>>> I tried, but turns out it's not on Tubi. YouTube has also been
>>>>> scrubbed pretty well, though I'll look further.
>>>>
>>>> There are rights issues surrounding "An Unearthly Child" so that
>>>> might be the reason it's not on Tubi... it was taken off the BBC
>>>> iPlayer a couple of years ago because the BBC does not own the
>>>
>>> It was never on iPlayer when they put everything else up in 2023. Last
>>> year Terror of the Zygons and the Seeds of Doom both joined it.
>>>
>>>> entire copyright. So it probably affects every service that has
>>>> deals with the BBC.
>>>>
>>>> That's why having physical releases of stories is still a good
>>>> idea. Rights issues can go fuck themselves then!
>>>
>>> This is why torrents are a good thing which should be encouraged.
>>> Remember that it is not illegal to download copyrighted content. If
>>> you were never going to pay for it then you are not depriving the
>>> copyright holder of any money, greedy scum that they are. I've already
>>> paid for An Unearthly Child and everything else the BBC has made many
>>> times over. I own it and so do all Licence fee payers.
>>>
>> .... so, it could be argued, that your downloading it from Tubi/wherever
>> *IS* legal ..... but I, for one, have NEVER paid for it (Beta/VHS/DVD)
>> so my downloading it SHOULD be illegal!!
>
>Not if you were never going to pay for it. The copyright holder would
>have to prove that you have deprived them of revenue. If you downloaded
>it without paying for it and then sold it then you would be violating
>copyright. If you gave it away to someone who was never going to pay for
>it you wouldn't. If you bought it legally and sold it to someone else
>you would not be violating copyright either. If you bought it legally,
>made multiple copies of it and gave it away for free to others who were
>never going to pay for it, there's no copyright violation. If you bought
>it legally and screened it to your friends in your home and charged them
>to watch it there's no copyright violation. If you bought it legally and
>broadcast it so anyone could watch it you would be violating copyright
>since anyone can watch it including those who would have paid for it if
>they didn't already own it, assuming of course people watched it. If
>they didn't watch it there's no copyright violation. If you bought it
>legally, made a copy of it and broadcast the copy, apparently that's
>copyright violation even if broadcasting the original source would be
>legal. It's like paying a plumber to install some pipes and then
>replacing one of the pipes that sprang a leak yourself and then having
>to pay the original plumber again for work he never did for work that
>either you or a different plumber carried out. Time for copyright to be
>abolished I think.
What i copyright? Really?
>
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