I'm all for freedom (not a lost cause yet) and treating people right (don't
shop at Walmart). I regularly stray onto the yellow line while I drive, and
thoroughly enjoy DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink 3.1
John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington, NY 11743
omtech@xxxxxxxxx | www.zuiko.com
Factory Trained OM Service since 1977
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 10:55 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] NOW: Westerns......
> I'm certainly no expert on copyright law, but I'm not so sure there would
> be any piracy involved here. Consider these hypothetical situations:
>
> I have HBO; my next-door neighbor, Andrew, doesn't, so I invite him over
> on Sunday nights to sit with me, drink beer and watch Deadwood. No piracy
> here.
>
> One Sunday night Andrew can't make it, so on Monday night I invite him
> over to watch the tape I legally made for my own use of Sunday's Deadwood
> episode. No piracy here, is there?
>
> But suppose I've got other plans Monday evening, and instead of inviting
> Andrew over to watch the tape of Sunday's Deadwood episode, I let him
> borrow it to watch in his own home. Any piracy here?
>
> Now, just because Andrew is not next door but is 12,473.5 miles away, if I
> send him, without charge, a tape of last Sunday's Deadwood episode, does
> that amount to piracy?
>
> I think I would have to make him pay for it, whether he's 100 feet or
> 12,473.5 miles away, in order for it to be illegal. Of course, I'm sure
> some entertainment industry lawyer could make it sound like I'm Al Capone
> and John Dillinger all rolled into one and single-handedly responsible for
> unemployed actors starving on the street corners of Beverly Hills. Been
> there; heard that kind of lawyerly crap.
>
> Besides, with our over-regulated, over-lawyered society, it's all but
> impossible to get through a day without committing at least a couple of
> so-called crimes. I know I do, and I usually enjoy each and every illegal
> act immensely. :-)
>
> Walt, still fighting the losing battle for freedom
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> and don't forget the piracy laws.
>>
>> John Hermanson
>> Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
>> 21 South Lane, Huntington, NY 11743
>> omtech@xxxxxxxxx | www.zuiko.com
>> Factory Trained OM Service since 1977
>> __________________________________
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxx>
>> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 2:00 PM
>> Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] NOW: Westerns......
>>
>>
>> > But I've got the entire second season of Deadwood on S-VHS, so why
>> > don't I
>> > the just burn a half dozen DVDs and then ship them off to -- oh, hell,
>> > that's right. I forgot. Not only are we people separated by a common
>> > language, but there's that pesky NTSB and PAL incompatability thing.
>> >
>> > So, since you're still waiting and in the dark, I won't reveal anything
>> > about Alma and Elsworth, Seth and Martha, Tom and his bicycle, Woo and
>> > Lee, Wolcott and the whores, Al and the stones, Trixie and the numbers,
>> > Joanie's new enterprise, Martha Jane Canarray's return, Cy's alliance
>> > with
>> > Wolcott, the Montana ruse, or any of the other interesting goings-on in
>> > the second season, which was at least the equal of the first, except
>> > perhaps less in total body count and more of the F word, which I can't
>> > get
>> > through a day without myself.
>> >
>> > Walt, sorry I can't be of much help, PAL :-)
>> >
>> > --
>> > "Anything more than 500 yards from
>> > the car just isn't photogenic." --
>> > Edward Weston
>> >
>> > -------------- Original message ----------------------
>> > From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >>
>> >> There is no way that it is ever going free to air! I am amazed that
>> >> such a program can be made in the US, having endured years of murkin
>> >> 'modified for TV' versions that reflect the lowest mid-west tolerance
>> >> for language and horizontal folk-dancing - far below European and Oz
>> >> acceptable limits and, I suspect, that of most urbane Americans.
>> >> Never seemed to be a problem with the violence but.
>> >> More power to you all and keep it coming but could you kindly refrain
>> >> from mentioning details - the second series hasn't been aired here
>> >> yet!
>> >> Andrewf
>> >> (foul-mouthed and 'king proud of it!)
>>
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