i think if youre an 80 year old about to die clutching the only copy of something refusing to share it, youre a piece of shit. sorry.
give it to people who can fix it, anonymously. it would be trivial and humanity would benefit rather than waiting for you to finally fucking die and we take it out of your warm, dead hands.
Alternate take: You expect 80 year olds to know how the scene groups work? You expect them to actually be able to digitize 60 year old film reels, (with film equipment that probably hasn’t been built since the 80’s,) anonymously get into contact with a scene releaser, and get the (notoriously distrustful) release group to work with them? If I were part of a scene group and someone came to me with that story, I’d be seeing red flags all over the place. I’d be suspecting that it’s a BBC employee trying to plant a mole, to catch us for piracy.
What the collectors did is not media piracy, but actual theft. According to the article, the people who have these episodes are former BBC workers who would dig through the media disposal cart and help themselves to anything that looked interesting. It is a victimless crime, but it definitely meets the definition of theft.
It has been long enough that they are likely outside of the statute of limitations, so they are not likely to face criminal consequences, but they are afraid that the BBC will send goons to trash their homes looking for more “stolen property”.
i think if youre an 80 year old about to die clutching the only copy of something refusing to share it, youre a piece of shit. sorry.
give it to people who can fix it, anonymously. it would be trivial and humanity would benefit rather than waiting for you to finally fucking die and we take it out of your warm, dead hands.
Alternate take: You expect 80 year olds to know how the scene groups work? You expect them to actually be able to digitize 60 year old film reels, (with film equipment that probably hasn’t been built since the 80’s,) anonymously get into contact with a scene releaser, and get the (notoriously distrustful) release group to work with them? If I were part of a scene group and someone came to me with that story, I’d be seeing red flags all over the place. I’d be suspecting that it’s a BBC employee trying to plant a mole, to catch us for piracy.
Protip you don’t need to be a scene group to upload a torrent to the internet.
But you do need to have an understanding of how torrenting works, at least on a basic level, to host your own torrent effectively.
This is indeed one of the takes of all time
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What the collectors did is not media piracy, but actual theft. According to the article, the people who have these episodes are former BBC workers who would dig through the media disposal cart and help themselves to anything that looked interesting. It is a victimless crime, but it definitely meets the definition of theft.
It has been long enough that they are likely outside of the statute of limitations, so they are not likely to face criminal consequences, but they are afraid that the BBC will send goons to trash their homes looking for more “stolen property”.
Stealing from the garbage is recycling, not theft.
I wouldn’t even use the word “stealing” in that phrase, to fully drive the point home.
Not in the eyes of the law, especially when the accuser has a large and well funded legal department and you are a working class retiree.
Then that law is stupid and can be dismissed.
Hey, did you just pick up the chewing gum I just tossed into the garbage?
THIEF!!!
This is the way.