Southpark On CD Rom

Southpark Cd's for Sale:

$20, including shipping by 3 day mail.

PC versions are Real Video Format and include all episodes and the realvideo installer Mac versions are Quicktime Format and include all episodes up to and including the Thanksgiving Show.

Send Payment in the form of check, money order, or cash to Arlo Miller Vanderbilt Box 324 107 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02115

And I'm sure you have got proper licensing to resale these right!!! Hoping to be able to download episodes of southpark in the future? Real Video or otherwise? Not if you try and pull a scam like this. Comedy Central will come down on all the websites and prevent anyone from downloading any episode due to copyright infringement.

Think twice before you actually try and do this........

I have put all the episodes onto a CD as well does this mean I have the right to sell it for $20.... I don't think so............

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Well, it depends. If it costs $20 for the CD and other costs, he could legally sell it. You get into trouble when you make profit off of something like this. (However, for $20, that had better be one HECK of a high quality recordable CD, or else electricity and other costs are mighty expensive.) :) (In other words, I do agree that this is bad news...)

Andy

WRONGO. Comedy Central has kicked the ass of anyone who they caught selling Spirit of Christmas on tape, agreeing to look the other way when copies are given away or traded for free. They get upset when people spend money on South Park that they can't give Trey and Matt 1% of.

Which means that posting three ads in a row in plain sight with very descriptive Subject headers was a really really stupid thing for him to do. If I were him, I wouldn't try to start my own car in the morning.

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That's what I meant. If Comedy Central is handling the episodes the same way as SOC, I was saying he could give away those CD's as long as he wasn't making any profit on them. I would obviously expect Trey and Matt to get a little upset at someone else making money off of their baby!

Andy

People making money isn't the issue. People spending money is the issue. The psychology is that if you got your episodes or SoX free or in trade, you'll be glad to buy a legitimate one to replace your 9th-generation copy for $12. But suppose you already paid $15 for your SoX tape.

Now, this guy could have exercised three other options:

 1. Sell it more discretely.  Basically what he did was, he spammed the
    group.  That approach has the disadvantages of gathering attention
    and provoking complaints to one's ISP.  If Comedy Central doesn't
    read it here, he might get a second-hand complaint from the ISP if
    they have a policy of reporting copyright violations.  On the other
    hand, I bought my South Park tape from someone whose site was posted
    here, but as a response to an existing thread.  That site is still
    up.  Just keep an eye out.

  2. Give it away.  Not to the general public, of course.  Give it to
     a friend, and let him worry about distributing it any further.  I
     once spent $20 mailing some quick copies of South Park episodes
     to about five of my friends, and they passed them on further.  They
     were, admittedly, pretty low-quality because some of them were two
     generations of six-hour tapes, but I made up for it by adding some
     other goodies from my collection, like The State's Halloween special
     and some public access TV.  The problem with digital media like
     CD-R's or Zip disks is they're not cheap.  To get around this, most
     people download their episodes via FTP, but this has the disadvantage
     of taking FOREVER.

  3. Trade it.  Trade it for other video material, for a new mouse or
     trackball, sexual favors, weed, or anything else that isn't money.
     Trade it for other CD's, even if they're pirated too.  That keeps
     it in the underground, or your own inner circle, depending on
     where you want to deal.

Good point - I see what you mean. You suppose we could convince him to give away free CD ROM's? :) (Probably not.)

Andy

Well, Zips are $15 but CDRs are only $2 or $3. That seems pretty cheap to me.

That's very wrong. Legally, you are ONLY allowed to make a copy for your own use. This person might sell at cost and make no profit, but then neither does the holder of the copyright.

Gary M. :^O