Is this legal?

[George P Burdell]

Saw this on digg:
http://www.first10minutes.com/

 

[yobarman]

doubtful lol.

 

[pyonir]

In Demand PPV lets you watch the first 5 or 10 minutes of a movie before you buy it. But i have no idea.

 

[Zolty]

Until they get sued it is legal, since they are selling the product and making money for the movie companies I doubt they will get sued.

 

[mugs]

I think it's legal to reproduce a small portion of a copyrighted work, but I'm not sure how much is allowed.

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: pyonir
In Demand PPV lets you watch the first 5 or 10 minutes of a movie before you buy it. But i have no idea.

 

[imported_electron]

I once heard you can freely distrubute 30 seconds of a song and that is considered "fair use". Don't know about movies though.

 

[Chompman]

Don't know... link doesn't work anymore. 😛

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: Chompman
Don't know... link doesn't work anymore. 😛

I guess that answers my question... unless they just ran out of bandwidth.

 

[hjo3]

Nah, 404 errors are still legal.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: hjo3
Nah, 404 errors are still legal.

I think they are illegal because they annoy me and I don't know their real name :|

 

[Syringer]

Seems no more harmful than a trailer..