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Re: FIRST ROBOTICS 2004 - Discovery Channel
Not to be a wet blanket here or anything, but you do all realize that you are engaging in piracy, don't you? What you are doing is a blatently illegal activity.

The Discovery Science Channel broadcast of "FIRST Robotics: The Frenzy" is a commercial broadcast, and it is not in the public domain. The Discovery Science Channel retains all right to the material in that broadcast, including all content, intellectual property, and rebroadcasting rights. It is their program, and they have not given any FIRST teams permission to capture it, store it, or make it available to anyone else. The Discovery Science Channel retains all the rights to that show, and we are honor-bound to respect those rights.

Yes, it is a really cool show. Yes, lots of us want to see it. Yes, folks are "only trying to help" by making copies of it available on the web for those that did not get to see the broadcast. But the fact is making an illegal copy of a broadcast program and posting it for public download is an illegal act, no matter how well intentioned you may be.

You have two options if you missed this show: watch the show on the Discovery Science Channel (it is being broadcast again on October 7 and 8), or obtain a legal, licenced copy from a permitted source (e.g. buy a copy from the Discovery Science Channel).

If you have captued the show and are hosting it for download, you are infringing on the rights of the Discovery Science Channel to control and distribute material that they - not you - own. You are committing piracy of a copyrighted product, and you are breaking the law. If you are downloading the show from one of these sources to view it, then - there is no nice way to say this - you are a thief. Modifiers such as "it is only a little thing" or "everybody is doing it" or "it's not for me, it's for the team" or "I wouldn't buy it anyway" or "I'm not selling it to make any money" don't make any difference - you are a theif.

Is this the type of behaviour that we should expect from you and your teams in the future? Is this the way you make your grandmother proud?

Is this what you have all learned from your FIRST experience?

-dave
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