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MTV Networks plans to make every clip from every episode of hit animated comedy SouthPark available for free online next year as part of a strategy to reach consumers everywhere.

flogen

The Hacker's post has been deleted - please do not post links to sites containing unofficial/illegal videos of copyrighted content.

Feelgood

flogen wrote: »

The Hacker's post has been deleted - please do not post links to sites containing unofficial/illegal videos of copyrighted content.

There is a legal website for viewing South Park episodes only. Its been there since South Park went on air...

With the consent of the moderator I can post the link.....

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

legal? are you sure about that? they do want their dvds to sell don't they?

Mr E

Unless its on comedycentral.com, its not legal.

Bard

Mr E wrote: »

Unless its on comedycentral.com, its not legal.

or on iTunes...

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Mordeth wrote: »

legal? are you sure about that? they do want their dvds to sell don't they?

Yep definitely legal, there was an issue on Ebay where some people were actually selling links to the website. Originally Ebay had removed such auctions deeming them as sale of illegal / copyright material but then allowed them back up as the links for sale were actually to a legal website believe it or not.

Don't know why anyone would buy links to a website, how in ever its apparently all legit... I wont post links obviously if its not inline with boards.ie rules....

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Mordeth wrote: »

legal? are you sure about that? they do want their dvds to sell don't they?

Here's an interview with Matt Stone and Trey Parker about downloading South Park episodes:

From: Reason Magazine (http://www.reason.com/news/show/116787.html)
Matt Stone and Trey Parker


Reason: When it looked like Comedy Central wasn’t going to rerun the Mary episode, people were still able to download it illegally online. Did you see that as a victory for free speech, or did you think, “My God, these people are stealing our intellectual property”?

Stone: We’re always in favor of people downloading. Always.

Reason: Why?

Stone: It’s how a lot of people see the show. And it’s never hurt us. We’ve done nothing but been successful with the show. How could you ever get mad about somebody who wants to see your stuff?

Parker: We worked really hard making that show, and the reason you do it is because you want people to see it.



Thank you,

flogen

Feelgood wrote: »

Here's an interview with Matt Stone and Trey Parker about downloading South Park episodes:

From: Reason Magazine (http://www.reason.com/news/show/116787.html)
Matt Stone and Trey Parker


Reason: When it looked like Comedy Central wasn’t going to rerun the Mary episode, people were still able to download it illegally online. Did you see that as a victory for free speech, or did you think, “My God, these people are stealing our intellectual property”?

Stone: We’re always in favor of people downloading. Always.

Reason: Why?

Stone: It’s how a lot of people see the show. And it’s never hurt us. We’ve done nothing but been successful with the show. How could you ever get mad about somebody who wants to see your stuff?

Parker: We worked really hard making that show, and the reason you do it is because you want people to see it.



Thank you,

The problem being that it's not Parker/Stone's decision to go to town on a site hosting the videos.

The site linked to by The Hacker had explicit disclaimers about how it wasn't hosting the videos on its site, just linking to other sites instead... in other words they knew it would be illegal to host the content themselves so were making it clear that they're not liable for the content, they just link to it.

I'm not comfortable with any links being put up of sites that aren't explicitly legitimate, regardless of what Stone/Parker support or oppose, but feel free to PM me about it and I can see whether it is legal or not.

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flogen wrote: »

The problem being that it's not Parker/Stone's decision to go to town on a site hosting the videos.

The site linked to by The Hacker had explicit disclaimers about how it wasn't hosting the videos on its site, just linking to other sites instead... in other words they knew it would be illegal to host the content themselves so were making it clear that they're not liable for the content, they just link to it.

I'm not comfortable with any links being put up of sites that aren't explicitly legitimate, regardless of what Stone/Parker support or oppose, but feel free to PM me about it and I can see whether it is legal or not.

No worries flogen, I will leave it. I think the site I am talking about is also one that is flagged under technically "legal" because it doesn't host actually content but rather links to hosted content.