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Old 8th September 2010, 03:11   #31  |  Link
mariush
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I work with videos all day for which I sign NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) and could end up paying huge fines if I were to divulge the name of the movie or details about it.

If I were to post a snapshot of one of those movies (allowed as long as it's not possible to identify the film from it) and ask some technical question, I can't just say what video that is from, yet I'm not pirating it.

In other cases, It's really annoying to see people asking some good questions only to see the next post from neuron2 saying "Where did you get that blah blah blah ... Forum members please don't reply to him until he clarified where he got the video". Sure, because I'm going to bookmark the page and refresh the page every 10 minutes just so I don't forget to answer this guys' question.

ex:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=155692
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=155801
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...03#post1421403
.. and so on...

In all civilized countries you're assumed innocent until proven guilty, here's it's the other way around.

Besides, even if the content posted IS copyrighted, there are a lot of cases where it's allowed to work with it.
For example, the latest DMCA granted the exception to rip a DVD for educational purposes, criticism, commentary and noncommercial videos.

Even if some guy would get a scene release from somewhere it would OK as long as he uses a sequence from that scene release let's say for a "critical review" or as fair use (a few seconds for some demonstration) or if he/she is a teacher to illustrate something in class. Yet nobody asks what the end result will be FOR, only about the source.

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