Downloading Baduk TV/ Discussion

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BramGo: Remember that it is not allowed to make a copy of a publication without permission of the publisher (even for personal usage).

Hu: In the USA, it is allowed to make a copy of a broadcast for personal usage. This was established for video tape in the 1980s and has been extended to other media, as far as I know.

BramGo: I'm not sure for other countries but in Belgium you can't. Even for personal usage you need to have permission except when making a copy is unavoidable for normal usage.

Hu: Does Belgian law forbid videotape copies of TV broadcasts for personal use?

Hikaru79: In a case like this, wouldn't Korea's copyright laws apply, and not the USA's or Belgium's?

jfc: How many times do we have to have this discussion? About once every two weeks it appears.

Here is a quick summary

  • Legal argument: It is hard for some corporation in country A to sue a person residing in country B when said person violates country A's laws but not country B's laws. US copyright law (not Korean copyright) law applies to persons who are residing in the US, even when viewing Baduk TV. If the Koreans don't like it they can block connections coming from the US.
  • Moral argument: We like Baduk TV. Let's do our best not to annoy them. If they ask us not to make any sort of copy, perhaps we should do what they say out of courtesy.

Take it as read that one person claims that only the legal argument matters while another person vehemently espouses the moral argument. Repeat this ad nauseum until you grow weary.

By the way, for you aficionados of U.S. copyright law, the Supreme Court case in question referred to above was [ext] Sony v. Universal Studios in 1984.

Rakshasa: The moral argument assumes they will be annoyed. They get free publicity and viewers they wouldn't have had otherwise. So the question is whetever they are like the MPAA or the Japanese anime studios? (Or somewhere in between)


Tamsin: And on a completely different matter. I'd like to watch Baduk TV, but I gave up broadband last year and I am on a 56.6 kbps dial-up now, which seems to mean I get only sound and not pictures when I connect to the site. Would downloading and watching later solve my problem? Thanks in advance.

Malweth: I have a similar problem - my cable is too slow and crappy to watch... however, downloading and watching later would only solve your problem if you had a friend with a faster connection do it for you... Since the media is streaming, you need to receive the full broadcast in order to save it using a stream ripping program.

Tamsin: Thanks for the reply. Maybe one day I'll go back to broadband, but till then I'll just have to manually replay games with gobase.org.

BramGo: If somebody can provide me a FTP server I am willing to upload the files I recorded. Then maybe somebody could make subtitles files for them? (I am trying to learn korean, but this far I can only read Hangul ^^.)

Phelan: If you are willing to upload the files to a FTP server, how about sharing them on a file-sharing service, such as eDonkey? I don't know if there are people already doing this, but I would be very interested in watching Baduk TV broadcasts, even without subtitles.

maruseru: Peer-to-peer sharing is a good idea, but please use BitTorrent for that, not eDonkey, which is more wide-spread, and there are more tools for it on any platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc.)


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