Forum - View topic

Interview: Evan Stone

Are those people that are downloading ripped streams even within US jurisdiction? Why else would people download something that's available to them for free unless they were in a blocked non-US location?

mrsatan wrote:

Are those people that are downloading ripped streams even within US jurisdiction? Why else would people download something that's available to them for free unless they were in a blocked non-US location?

That's what I'm thinking too. People only download something that is available on their region if there is a higher quality file that exists somewhere.

"If you can't determine who committed the violation of illegally downloading, I'll sue everybody in the house. Even your 3 month old baby sister."

Here's what I got out of this interview:

"You aren't allowed to sell merchandise you made yourself, even though every single thing out there on the market has been made by somebody."

"You aren't allowed to make or show AMV's despite the fact that you ripped the source material from a DVD you legitimately purchased, and even though it's not a whole episode, and the fact that tying an english song with an anime actually helps get new people into the anime fandom."

"If you can't determine who committed the violation of illegally downloading, I'll sue everybody in the house. Even your 3 month old baby sister."

This guy is full of BS, and really needs to have his lawyer's license revoked, possibly serving jail time for taking up the court's time suing innocent people.

As for selling stuff you made, when "everything has been made by somebody"... I'm not even sure what that means. Are you suggesting that I should legally be able to, say, plaster a photograph of Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter on a t-shirt, print HARRY POTTER on it, and sell it in a store? Because uh, no, that's not how copyrights work, whether you like it or not.

Are you sure you read this article? He clearly says that AMVs are fine because of fair use.

Although, if you're a person that pirates alot of course you're gonna blast him and says he's full of BS.

That line of reasoning always baffled me.

"I'm such a huge fan of Fullmetal Alchemist that I should be entitled to profit from the sale of bootleg merchandise I made myself!"

They don't want their subscribers to think that they can get sued, because how many people are still gonna pay 53 bucks a month for broadband if they know they're restricted to 100% legitimate activity? That's kind of how I look at it. I mean, most people will. I think roughly 5-10% of their users would say "look, if I can't pirate movies and music, there's no way I'm going to pay fifty bucks." They don't want to lose customers, they don't want their customers sued.

[
I just reread the article to be sure, and I don't see any place where he specifically says AMVs are fair use. I see:

"We're always a little more relaxed with streaming stuff because there's so much fair use. Like all the AMVs, you see AMVs on streaming sites, you don't see them on RapidShare. RapidShare uploaders, we're going to start prosecuting."

He's basically saying the only reason that they aren't prosecuting AMV makers is because the AMV is on Youtube or other streaming sites.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like if the exact same AMV was on a torrent or rapidshare (or any other downloading site) instead of streaming, he would sue them for making and uploading it.