I think the University in this case is a lot more at fault, because the industry could try and pressure or threaten audits or whatever, but they should have stood up to it. If I was in the administration I would have recorded every bit of communication with the industry groups and would have said "You even TRY to nail us for exercising our academic freedoms, this will go out all over every major media outlet and we'll make sure to take you to court over it"
But then they would have discorved the dean's illegal file sharing activities(as in sharing files that are illegal to share, not as in sharing open source stuff)
- my wife bought a DVD I want to watch, but she's already asleep. Now I'll have to wake her up, won't I? - I had an accident and my thumb is in plaster. I don't have to go to work now. I wouldn't be able to, would I? Huray! Now I have plenty of time to watch the 135 DVDs I bought last year but never had time to watch because I'm too busy at work... oh wait a minute... - I had an accident and lost my arm... and my DVD collection too... - My uncle has deceased. He had a collection of 1000 DVDs (15,000 dollar) which I'm happy to inheret... and throw in the garbage bin cursing the RIAA
While indeed DVDs often have additional features (like deleted scenes and director commentary like you said), they most often had to replace the original soundtrack by something cheaper.
It's crazy. The license they need to pay for the soundtrack when broadcasting is apparently much cheaper than the one when selling DVDs.
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I think the University in this case is a lot more at fault, because the industry could try and pressure or threaten audits or whatever, but they should have stood up to it. If I was in the administration I would have recorded every bit of communication with the industry groups and would have said "You even TRY to nail us for exercising our academic freedoms, this will go out all over every major media outlet and we'll make sure to take you to court over it"
But then they would have discorved the dean's illegal file sharing activities(as in sharing files that are illegal to share, not as in sharing open source stuff)
but but ... I was born without arms!
Tristan.
- my wife bought a DVD I want to watch, but she's already asleep. Now I'll have to wake her up, won't I? ... oh wait a minute ... ... and my DVD collection too ... ... and throw in the garbage bin cursing the RIAA
- I had an accident and my thumb is in plaster. I don't have to go to work now. I wouldn't be able to, would I? Huray! Now I have plenty of time to watch the 135 DVDs I bought last year but never had time to watch because I'm too busy at work
- I had an accident and lost my arm
- My uncle has deceased. He had a collection of 1000 DVDs (15,000 dollar) which I'm happy to inheret
Yeah, I'm positive this will work!
Tristan.
While indeed DVDs often have additional features (like deleted scenes and director commentary like you said), they most often had to replace the original soundtrack by something cheaper.
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It's crazy. The license they need to pay for the soundtrack when broadcasting is apparently much cheaper than the one when selling DVDs.
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,66696,0
http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,6
And that kind of sucks too.
Tristan.