Re: Bet reminder.
On Monday 03 August 2009 13:06:58 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Ah, I was unaware of that "tiny" detail of legal requirement.
>
> I am currently downloading both series from torrents - seems likely that
> I succeed with Cold Lazarus while Karaoke has only very few seeders so
> might stall in the middle.
Yes, it took my friend two weeks to make a "backup" of that one and the
quality is not impressive either.
> I did not know these series, so thanks for bringing them to my
> attention. Reading the Wikipedia article on Cold Lazarus I suspect that
> you were already aware of the complex legal circumstances surrounding
> them, so I imagine that the legal requirement was in fact part of your
> original challenge (and I simply didn't hear that detail). On the other
Introducing you to these series was at the root of it all, I hope you'd like
them and yes, offcourse I was aware of the copyrights deadlock. I also
believe this was premeditated by Dennis Potter - let me know your opinion
once you've watched them all.
> hand I seem to recall that while you formulated the challenge, I
> formulated to bet (which did not include the requirement of the data
> being retrieved legally), and anyway legalese is tied to jurisdictions,
> so when not including jurisdiction I could circumvent it by downloading
> in, say, Brazil or some other countries giving a fuck about british
> copyright rules.
This is wriggling with lots of lubricant. :-)
> If you feel that you've won, then I will respect that and buy you a nice
Oh, you're giving up so easy?
> bottle of single malt Scotch for next time we meet. Alternatively I can
> bring you whatever I succeed to gather of these movie series... :-)
I call off the bet as you were under the influence of consciousness altering
substances and may not be held responsible :-)
If you like the stuff and feel you wish to make a contribution I'll accept it
on behalf of the late Potter. ;-)
If you don't manage to get it all I'll give you one backup copy for
safekeeping.
Enjoy, Odd.
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