Downloading Free MotoGP is Banned and Illegal !! WTF?

[Skunk]

Actually, according to NZ's copyright laws you are only allowed to tape from tv for the purpose of "time-shifting" - to record a programme that screens at a time you would not normally be able to view it so you can view it later at your convenience - you are then expected to reuse the tape and overwrite the recorded programme. NZ law expressly forbids taping it from the TV and keeping it.

I understand that those laws are under review now. So we should see change sometime in the next twenty years.

[Racey Rider]

Yes, the interviews would be good.

Email I will!

[danb]

I understand that those laws are under review now. So we should see change sometime in the next twenty years.

Twenty years sounds far to long - but as usual nothing gets fixed in this country unless shit really hits the fan or someone in parliament gets involved.

[phaedrus]

has anyone ever been done for making personal backups or selvaging an abandoned album?
[edit]
we are supposed to ignore some laws sometimes (getting the alcohol you buy home)
http://www.nzdf.org.nz/update/messages/1675.htm
could copyright be another one?

[gav]

Hmm, havent got my email yet?
Owww, thats gotta hurt...

[Bob]

It is, as has been said, an issue of both copyright and payment for services.

MotoGP have 'video clips' available on their site - but you have to pay a membership fee to see them. Unless the other website pays them a fee, then they're losing revenue from their product.

TV is "free", but the TV station pays Dorna (owners of MotoGP) for the right to show the races. They then recoup their costs - and hopefully make a profit - by selling advertising space.

In both cases, if some website gets hold of coverage and puts it out there for free, then they are taking away from the revenue stream. And if the money doesn't come in, then the business (and it is a business, remember that) folds. And then no-one has any racing to watch.

Recording the race - laws are fairly similar in most countries it seems. You can record for "personal purposes", ie watch it as you were out or it is on at an inconvenient time (how long you're 'allowed' to keep varies from country to country - in the UK it was as little as 30 days at one stage). But you cannot broadcast it publically, sell it and so on. Again, this would take away from MotoGP's revenues, when they bring out the DVD/VHS/Whatever media for sale at the end of the season.

Someone mentioned file sharing sites and how that is free. I don't know the sites in question, but unless they're fully legal, licenced sites, then you're probably breaking copyright law by downloading... sorry "sharing files" from them as well. Napster (the original, not the new, licenced version) was taken to court and closed down for that very reason. And if they're legal, licenced sites, then they'd be charging a download fee, as they'd have to purchase/own the rights to each track in the first place.

Never mix up "available" with "legal"...

[curious george]

Never mix up "available" with "legal"...

I knew a girl like that once...