I never saw this question asked before. Maybe I wasn't persistent enough, but here it is anyway.
The polarisation of views from the share everything (FSF) to everyone is a selfish individual...
Everyone seems to assume that we have only those two possibilities with regard to misic or other similar IP. However would it be legal if someone talks to all her neighbors, and each neighbor contributes one cent. Let's say there are 2500 neighbors, and total proceeds are $25.00. This money is then used to buy one CD or DVD. Would it be legal for all 2500 neighbors to share that CD or DVD? IANAL, but it seems that indeed they are co-owners, and nobody got more right on that IP than anyone else.
Obviously, the seller still loses, assuming that seller wants all the money it can get - but how fair this would be?
SECAM makes more sense when you have 50Hz supply. Don't know why they didn't use PAL though.
SECAM is better on long links. It is much more stable if the channel has some phase distortions. Given the size of USSR the TV signal had to pass through many repeaters. So SECAM makes sense. The quality is very close to PAL anyway.
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The polarisation of views from the share everything (FSF) to everyone is a selfish individual...
Everyone seems to assume that we have only those two possibilities with regard to misic or other similar IP. However would it be legal if someone talks to all her neighbors, and each neighbor contributes one cent. Let's say there are 2500 neighbors, and total proceeds are $25.00. This money is then used to buy one CD or DVD. Would it be legal for all 2500 neighbors to share that CD or DVD? IANAL, but it seems that indeed they are co-owners, and nobody got more right on that IP than anyone else.
Obviously, the seller still loses, assuming that seller wants all the money it can get - but how fair this would be?
SECAM is better on long links. It is much more stable if the channel has some phase distortions. Given the size of USSR the TV signal had to pass through many repeaters. So SECAM makes sense. The quality is very close to PAL anyway.