сначала для наших русскоговорящих читателей
В качестве своего первого поста в теме сперва написал вот этот текст, но потом решил попридержать на случай каких-нибудь ретивых постов
, а тут гляди, собственно виновник торжества прибыл.
"Коммерческих студий" среди правообладателей видео от югослава, будем именовать его так, всего два источника (я не об этом новом блоге, а обо всей коллекции) - BillardClub Network и Accu-Stats. Отнести к студии единственного человека (его партнер недавно скончался, не дожив и до 50), который рулит TheActionReport (TAR), уже вряд ли возможно. Я немало читал в последнее время на тему потребления медиаконтента (музыка, кино, игры), и сам считаю, что всяким глобальным корпорациям вроде Sony Entertainment, EMI и иже с ними пора уже забыть о временах, когда они могли работать по старинке и когда доходы были прямо пропорциональны количеству проданных носителей информации. Магнитная пленка, а потом изобретение флэш-памяти напрочь подкосили эту тему, и с недавних пор многие музыканты сами поняли, что способы извлечения заработка от творчества нужно менять (первым громким опытом стал альбом группы Radiohead, выложенный для свободного скачивания). То есть лично я совсем не прочь получить бесплатных ништячков у этой категории производителей, и в первую очередь потому, что истинными правообладателями являются вовсе не они. Если понравилось, сейчас можно непосредственно автору перечислить сколько считаешь нужным.
TAR имели при своем сайте магазин, через который продавали записи организованных ими матчей. В этом году магазин закрыли, потому что диски не покупались. Неудивительно, вон записи в свободном доступе гуляют.
Джон Шмидт записывает свои суперсерии в стрейт, за 200-300 очков, комментирует их, объясняет, что делает и почему - и продает записи. У этого югослава есть его серия 245, теперь этот диск навряд ли купит тот, кто узнает, что видео есть в интернете. Зачем? Там все то же самое, только за деньги... Вкратце изложил свою нынешнюю позицию в отношении таких правообладателей в первом посте.
bilijar9 писал(а):I'm sorry for speaking English on Russian forum but I don't know Russian.
I used google translate and I just want to respond to some people here.
написао овде, ви сте из Југославије - могао да напише на српскохрватском. Руски језик је сличан српском, и све је јасно. Ево како Google Translate функционише...
But I will respond in English since you seem pretty fluent in it. And will do it only once since I'm not eager to set any discussions. I'm not to judge you here but your position has some serious faults, at least to my impression.
You should know that you're downloading free files not original from e.g. TAR website. I'm sure they will sell you nice DVD's with everything organised
They will not. They are not selling DVDs any more, and free sharing is one of the reasons for this, I'm sure. They are not getting any sales, as simple as that.
Maybe you should try to record stream and see how is it hard to do it.
Been there, done that. When time allowed me, I was recording every match I found interesting during EPC. Note that videos from the EPC are not saved and sold in any form, meaning if a match is gone it is gone forever. And then I shared them via torrents. For 14.1 matches I added players names and scoring which cost me some reasonable time and effort. I did the files available for download which was not limited by anything except one's bandwidth and I did not get any money for that (and I did not intend to). Here you could find a video section, site admin does some recording as well, and guess what, he does not let people involved in any payments. That's where I see fundamental difference in our approaches.
I CUT some videos into parts so FREE users can download it faster, not cause I want you to wait longer. Some free users have very slow download speed and image if he/she download 3.95 GB of 4GB and his/her connection broke? He/she would had to start downloading it all over again.
That's why torrents are way better than file hosting servers. Even if a user has some useless pieces of a file he can be useful for the community and let people download from him. And as long as file availability is 100% (maybe even different users have separate pieces which add up to a complete file) it can be saved and viewed. At the same time if one part of multiple pieces you share is corrupt the user has to download it again. And if one of the parts get deleted for any reason the whole stuff turns into useless crap.
I am not against good videos being shared and available for free download, especially if these are some gems from the past which are impossible to get other than this way. There used to be a couple of really great trackers with billiard related video (ever heard about torrents?) and a member of this forum was running it, I was pretty active helping him there. And I always made a comment people should support the video owners with their investment, or there will be an end of the story someday. But some titles simply should not be made open to free access since it is complete stealing. The problem is that I know the people who are behind such videos production from AZB forums where thay all post, and I know how hard they try to make them.
That's just childish to hide behind that disclaimer you put in the header because it's not your real mission to "help the producers get more attention to their product". If you wanted to do that you could just share several minutes and not the whole thing. If you really wanted to bring free videos to people you could have found better ways to share them. Instead you upload them to a slow file hosting service and offer to buy premium accounts. Please don't talk about how little money you get, I am familiar with the way these hosting systems work. More parts = more profit, I have seen uploaders who used to cut a 100 Mb pdf file in 50 tiny increments, LOL. Regardless of the fact how much or little you receive, you still get paid for something you don't own. You are talking about believing in freeware and make people spend their money to get easy access to the videos you share. Doesn't that look funny to you?
Mikhail you're a bit greedy like accu stats.
I was not asking anything from you. I just can't stand people in position like you trying to act as heroes which they are notby any means. Instead of sharing free and unlimited you set hurdles and even get offended by any little comment toward your person, just like it happened now. Nobody attacked you, I only said which would be right and wrong in regard with some particular videos. Seems you like drawing attention, and thus came here with all that hype.
I wish you luck with your efforts, since you will really need it, but like I said there are enough things you are doing wrong. It could have been better.