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A note about copyrights

By robin

11 years ago


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    #4 11 years ago
    Quoted from Pafasa:

    What about scanning old manuals and schematics?

    that's what IPDB is for. If it's not supposed to be up there, it won't get posted

    1 year later
    #81 9 years ago

    This subject keeps coming up, and in this hobby it's really tough. You have collectors wanting parts, but they aren't always available, and nobody wants a pin parted so that another can be restored (because that one less pin that someone can own, which in most cases is less than 5,000 ever made, which is probably more like less than 2,500 at this point). So then you have 2 choices, wait for CPR to make backglass / plastics set / playfield, or self-teach yourself to touchup a scan (if you even have decent artwork to start with) and spend hundreds of hours cleaning it up... For yourself. Not for resale, not to pass along and help someone else, all that work so you can make your pinball look like new.

    In my opinion (even though I know this isn't legal), any media that isn't legally for sale by rights owners (whether it be pinball, movies, music, etc) should be free to trade. MST3K videos got passed along by a VHS club before there was internet, because quite frankly there was no DVD archives of the show and it actually made the show more popular. Metallica is famous for encouraging bootlegs of their music so they would gain popularity, yet once napster came out they were the head spokespersons for shutting it down. Game of thrones is the most pirated TV show, and it's because people don't want to pay for a 300 channel cable package, they want ala carte and HBO isn't willing to do that.

    I'm all about creators getting paid for their hard work. I hate software piracy, I hate theft of music and movies. I pay for netflix, I pay for 200 channel TV, but if a sporting event should mess up my scheduled recording and I miss a show, you're dam right I'm going to go to illegal means to download that show that I legally paid for. I'm not going to sit through forced ads on HULU or some other streaming service when I also pay for a DVR to skip those commercials.

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