???
Okay, got it.
The way I talked to my family members on the phone a couple of hours back is
termed as "Sarda" in my native language.
You Psychopaths are GENIUSES.
I already told the whole fucking rsc and the rest of the world for more than
three years that YOU CAN READ MY PRIVATE THOUGHTS in less than a minute with
your SECRET SYNTHETIC TELEPATHY CHIPS.
I said so a zillion times on rsc.
Now you are BORING ME with the same shit again and again like the typical
western boreturds.
Not that I give a Rats arse either way by why on earth would you expect
the t20 WC to be free on the net?
Was IPL free on the net?
CDK
Yes, it was
Couldn't Modi work out how to make money on the net?
CDK
Since when has CAPITALISM become a CRIME for the Westernfucks like you CDK
??
LOL
Not in the USA where we needed it the most :(
Cheers!
--
Vig
and, if you wanted to.
Rahul
Yes, but not legally "free" in the US. Lots of places where it
could be had "free" in the US from people that had pirated the
feed. Modi had it licensed over here to Willow (the Direct TV
subsidiary). I have no idea if it was legally "free" anywhere
else in the world, but somehow I don't seen Modi giving his cash
cow away anywhere except for the clink of cold hard cash!
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NP: nothing
which is not something you'll think of when someone robs you on the
streets. It is a fine excuse to satisfy your conscience when you do
what seems convenient to you.
Rahul
Hmmmm. I try not get preachy, and hypocritical since I've used usenet
recently to get my hands on "Empire of cricket" and some 20/20 CWC
daily highlights, but I know from first hand the loss of revenue when
a piece of intellectual property is nicked. Going all the way back to
the 1980s and software being "appropriated" by big companies and
passed on to subsidiaries without paying proper licenses, to the first
official Systems Theory album being pirated in Russia and the Far
East. Which is why we decided to offer our second CD as a download
image and save ourselves the aggravation. (See my sig file). We still
offer for sale individual tracks through reputable online digital
resellers but for every one that's bought many more are shared.
Modi is entitled to get his cut from licensing his product, and those
he licenses it to are entitled to not be ripped off in their local
marketplace. But since it happens with ease using computers to capture
and forward the feed to anywhere in the world, I imagine part of the
pricing structure is to cover expected piracy. Which is arse-backwards
but part of business today when you know that some part of your
revenue stream will evaporate due to digital hijacking.
So the real truth is not that the difference between legal and illegal
is who gets to "make the rules", but that the difference is who can
get away with taking someone else's property/ideas and not be caught
and who can't. Placing a piracy server in the USA or the UK would be
stupid because the long arm of the law will catch up with you unless
it's a hit-and-run operation. But placing one in a country with less
rigorous protection for intellectual property rights (Russia, China,
etc) allows one to thumb one's nose.
Capturing a TV feed in one country (India, Oz, etc) then sending it on
to a server elsewhere for distribution is one way to get around paying
the licensee. Other than the person that buys the original feed, of
course. Where do people think all the "buy the entire India vs
Australia test series for $15" to-good-to-be-true deals come from?
Since the WWW and search engines make it easy to find anything if you
want it badly enough to do the leg work, the IPL and the ICC feeds
will always be up for grabs somewhere.
In the interests of not talking out of both sides of my mouth, if I
could get Test Match Special without shenanigans when England are
touring overseas that would be great. But I can't, and when I find a
bounced radio feed I take advantage of it. Otherwise it's whatever
local feed I can tap into, which usually isn't as good commentary, but
one listens to what's available. When India played NZ recently I found
an entry point to get around the CNZ imposed block on non-NZ IP
addresses getting the signal. C'est la vie. [shrugs]
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