ShadowOfTwilight wrote:*shrugs* It was just an idea. I personally wouldn't choose to argue that what is on this site fails to qualify as art... but hey, that's just one user's opinion. If I've offended you somehow, domo sumimasen.
trythil wrote:ShadowOfTwilight wrote:*shrugs* It was just an idea. I personally wouldn't choose to argue that what is on this site fails to qualify as art... but hey, that's just one user's opinion. If I've offended you somehow, domo sumimasen.
My argument is not based on what is and what is not art, nor did you offend any of my personal sensibilities.
My argument is based on the extreme difficulty of using "it's art" as a defense against copyright infringement, why that effectively makes it a useless defense, and why it has major implications for what the .org can and cannot do.

celibi87 wrote:if they were gonna get us for copyright infringment then they would have done it by now. hell you type in anime music videos in the search engine and what do u get? this site. i dont think they are worried about us making amvs cause most (cough)pirates(cough) of us do get it off dvds just to make it more legal. i know i have downloaded (off my limewire pro) anime episodes. so there is no way of knowing what wil happen. if the movie or the song industry gets a wild hair then i guess we will just have to find an alternative to posting amvs. simple as that.
celibi87 wrote:if they were gonna get us for copyright infringment then they would have done it by now.
carotenuto wrote:Offer a service wherein a member (anyone) may request of the ORG a DVD (playable anywhere) with certain videos on it, and must pay $X for base cost (DVD, shipping, etc.) and then a donate fee of $Y per video burned. All wrapped up in a shiny spiffy case (bells, whistles, weee)
You can safely say that most of us know someone who thnks AMV's are cool as all heck but don't have the resources available to download/view on their own. So they end up coming to those of us that do to see the latest vids on our computers. Maybe they're technically illiterate , or they can't get highspeed, or some other bizarre excuse.
I am very wary of putting up bittorrent for several reasons. Personally, every time I have tried to use BT, I always get suck download speed, always. Of the 38074 local videos, 36538 were downloaded at least once last month. This is 95.97% of all local videos getting downloaded last month. From what I know of BT, it doesn't work very well for lots of files getting few downloads. Also, in the industry matrix of "who should we go after and sue next", the checkbox of "uses file sharing networks" seems to push people way up to the top of the list. I don’t want BT to be the straw that breaks that camel’s back
badmartialarts wrote:Unfortuneately, this HAS been addressed. There are almost 2 TB of videos on this site, and they are downloaded almost at random by the users of this site. If it was a few videos that generate all the bandwidth issues, yes, a torrent would be ideal. But from the usage statistics (which have been posted before, if not in this thread then in the previous 2000 threads begging for torrents), that is actually not the case. Almost every file on this site gets hits, maybe not every day but once in a while. Even the 'bad' ones (which is very subjective).

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