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Subject: Re: You guys win >_<

Author:
Dena

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Date Posted: 12:17:00 06/17/03 Tue
In reply to: Pasha 's message, "Re: You guys win >_<" on 10:46:55 06/17/03 Tue

>The reason why I don't focus on non-digital IP
>problems is because I think that it is not a big
>problem. I cannot go on the internet and download a
>tee shirt or a poster (maybe a scan of a poster, but
>that isn't exactly the same). The big deal is with
>the ease of copying digital stuff.

Actually, one of the things that pisses me off the most about Ebay is the fact that anybody and his cousin with a laser printer and a stack of those iron-on shirt blanks we used for the "Anime Smiley" shirts thinks that he is therefore perfectly within his rights to:

1) download a crappy-resolution scan of some anime character (or take someone's laboriously-put-together wallpaper because he found it online and it was better than the crappy-resolution scan)

2) apply said image to iron-on and iron-on to shirt

and

3) sell the things for somewhere in the neighborhood of $25 apiece, calling them "special print process" and "limited edition" and "rare item" and such, and make a completely illegal profit off characters.

The truth is that I have far fewer objections to digital fansubbers, who at least make a point of NOT making a profit, than I do to people who basically photocopy someone else's art onto a T-shirt and then set out TO make a profit off the other person's work... >.<

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: You guys win >_<	Dena	12:27:04 06/17/03 Tue

Re: You guys win >_<	Pasha	14:43:39 06/17/03 Tue