Olympic Opening Ceremony

[jdbnsn]

OMG! I've been watching this for 30 min now and I have never seen anything like it before. I've been in that town, and I've seen many of their artists in their studios. I knew these folks were not going to be screwing around, but whoa! Unreal!!!!!

[jdbnsn]

This has been the most amazing culmination of art, technology, performance, and culture that I have ever seen. Absolutely jaw-dropping. And then of course, NBC pans the camera over to President Bush and the USA-hole was looking at his watch!!!!! Oh dear :no:

[Quakken]

Come on, the most amazing opening ceremony ever for the olympics, and you are worried about what time it is?

[Crimson Sky]

Emmons Katerina wins 1st Olympic gold

chinadaily.com.cn
Updated: 2008-08-09 11:04




BEIJING -- Czechic's sharpshooter Emmons Katerina wrote her name into history as she won the first gold of the 29th Olympics in women's 10m air rifle.

Emmons improved Olympic Record of the discipline to 503.5 points, followed by Russian Lioubov Galkina in the second place at 502.1. The bronze medal went to Snjezana Pejcic of Croatia with 500.9 points.

Katerina Emmons of the Czech Republic, who had a perfect qualifying score of 400, never lost her lead while rolling to the gold medal. She is married to U.S. shooter Matt Emmons, who will compete in the men's 50-meter rifle prone and 50-meter rifle 3-position.

[simon275]

Yeah it was pretty crazy. We got to watch it live in Australia due to time zones. How cute was that little girl singing towards the start.

[SgtM]

Didn't get to see any of it. Overtime tonight.

[Drum Thumper]

I refuse to watch any crap put on by the big three networks, especially after having to suffer through listening to commentators absolutely destroy the 96 games in Atlanta. Those asshats were blabbering through some of the coolest world music ever composed about absolute utter irrelevant ****, like the age of the performers on the field.

Seriously, who gives a **** if someone is only 12 years old? STFU and sit back and enjoy the damn show.

[jdbnsn]

Does anyone know how to get a recording of the opening ceremonies? I've looked on the IOC's site, nbc.com, and beijing2008.com and didn't see any reference to it. It never occurred to me to record it, and I don't have a VCR :(

[OvRiDe]

I have it on my DVR.. but at the moment, I have no idea if I can get it off of there or not.

[jdbnsn]

Oh that would be awesome if you could, but I know nothing about DVR's and have no clue if it's possible.

[nevermind1534]

If you have it on your DVR, and have a DVD recorder, or a TV tuner on your computer, you could get it off pretty easily.

[OvRiDe]

I have an old ATI 8MB All-in-wonder Pro, but it records in some funky AVI codec.. I will figure something out.. The DVD Recorder just might work.

[nevermind1534]

Would Divx or xvid play it?

[Omega]

You guys do realize that redistributing copyrighted material without written consent is illegal, right? Please keep any and all discussions about illegal activities off of TBCS. I can't imagine Paul would be too pleased if he was held responsible for your actions because he owns the site.

[nevermind1534]

It doesn't look like anybody is distributing it, or doing anything illegally. There's much easier means of doing that than pulling it off of a DVR, and sending people DVDs, too. As far as I know, ripping shows off of a DVR for private, personal viewing isn't illegal.

[jdbnsn]

I was under the impression that giving a copy of a television show with the included commercials without exchanging money was legal. But since it's been mentioned, I guess I'm not sure.

[nevermind1534]

Noth watching the commercials while watching anything on TV is stealing the programming. I think you might be right about giving a copy with the commercials, and no money exchanged being legal.

[xRyokenx]

So, technically, changing the channel during a commercial is illegal in some sense?

[Omega]

The International Olympics Committee technically owns all video footage of the Olympics.

Unauthorized redistribution (doing anything other than watching it as it's broadcasted or on your own DVR (so burning DVDs is illegal because you don't own the right to the broadcast)) is considered copyright infringement, which we all know is internationally illegal (hence "international copyright laws").

Technically, even the discussion of such actions falls under illegal activity in the TBCS moderator guidelines and everybody who has discussed redistributing or asking how they could has broke the rules.

Since you all seem oblivious to this, though, I've decided to leave you all with a verbal warning as opposed to a one week ban (That and I can't ban admins).

Regardless, it's against international laws, and it's against TBCS rules, so for the sake of keeping this discussion from continuing further, I am locking the thread. Paul and TBCS don't need this liability.


To put it in more familiar terms, kinda:
Redistributing broadcasts without permission is much like redistributing music/movies without permission. It's the exact same thing. Without permission from the copyright holder (or without purchasing a license to use the material (or in laymans terms, buying the material (CD, DVD whatever)), it is illegal to give to anybody else under all conditions.



I was under the impression that giving a copy of a television show with the included commercials without exchanging money was legal. But since it's been mentioned, I guess I'm not sure.

It's illegal to redistribute (commercials or not) without written permission from the copyright holder (International Olympics Committee)



Noth watching the commercials while watching anything on TV is stealing the programming. I think you might be right about giving a copy with the commercials, and no money exchanged being legal.

It's not stealing programming on your TV if you, say, DVR it and then fast forward through the commercials. You still payed to get that channel, the commercials still aired, and you're not redistributing it.



So, technically, changing the channel during a commercial is illegal in some sense?

It's not illegal in any sense.