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Originally Posted by JoelP
Someone upload it to google video or something PLEASE!!!
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Originally Posted by Kyle Fenton
Here is a temp link to it
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Originally Posted by Kyle Fenton
Here is a WMV version of the episode
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Originally Posted by Dillon Compton
I got the segment courtesy of Kyle Fenton, and have uploaded it to our team site, since the yousendit will only stick around for 7 days.
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This will remain up untill I run so far out of server space that I need those 47.7 mb. Enjoy.
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Whoops. Here we go again... (we go through this discussion every year - see
this thread and
this thread for prior examples. Yes, we have had this discussion before.)
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 Public Broadcasting System broadcast of the
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer segment featuring the FIRST robotics competition is a commercial broadcast, and it is not in the public domain. MacNeil/Lehrer Productions retain 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. MacNeil/Lehrer Productions retain 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 PBS when it is re-broadcast (as Andy mentioned, it is being broadcast again on May 23), or obtain a legal, licenced copy from a permitted source (e.g. buy a copy from PBS).
If you have captued the show and are hosting it for download, you are infringing on the rights of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions 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 thief.
Look, nobody is trying to be exceptionally pedantic about this. PBS is not likely to jump all over you and call the police just because you set up a mirror site. But part of our purpose here is to set an example for the teams of professional behavior. Part of being a professional includes a respect for the law - including copyright law. Plus, it is a simple matter of courtesy to ask someone that has developed such materials if they mind if you copy their materials to your site. Doing so, in addition to avoiding a copyright violation, is an act of respect for the efforts of the producers of the show, and is just plain good manners.
-dave