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I'm having trouble if the ARD (or parts of it) starts dicking around with copyright restrictions. They receive a huge amount of funding from mandatory payments
by darklajid 13y ago
I'm having trouble if the ARD (or parts of it) starts dicking around with copyright restrictions. They receive a huge amount of funding from mandatory payments of all German households (you can try to avoid that if you're a poor student or poor, period, but usually you're (supposed to be) paying - by law).
It's really close to a tax to pay for their content, their infrastructure. Which makes sense in a way for me, I do want broadcasters that don't need to rely on 'what the masses want' alone to pick their content, ending with Big Brother and brainless idiotic stuff everywhere.
But there's power and there's responsibility. If you take money from ~every~ citizen/household, then you better release that stuff with a decent license.
- zokier 13y agoBut the content is freely viewable in Germany, isn't it? Imho that would easily cover their mandate to the people (who are financing them)
- pgeorgi 13y agoFor a number of days. I wonder when they will go un-publish this one. Most things disappear from their websites after 7 days, which is a "compromise" they worked out with the private media corporations.
- zokier 13y agoYou can't really fault them for following the restrictions set by past deals
- darklajid 13y agoWell, even in Germany they failed by - not showing this prominently enough - not providing the original version without a lot of prodding As for the rest of the comment: I don't know. The content's created. Why not set it free? I expect that for me/for locals, but I fail to see why you'd want to use geolocation to exclude others. Ever. The only cost at this point is bandwidth and by offering the content with a liberal license you could expect decent mirrors.