Thanks Guys!

[Homerboy]

I spent about 20gig also from my post. God bless my free colo 🙂
Anyways I'm too lazy to look at logs but Im willing to bet I have the same links too... dumb @sses.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
That's probahly the nicest C&D letter I have ever seen.

Yeah, I gotta give Lucasfilm props for protecting their copyrights without being total dicks about it.

 

[ActuaryTm]

Wrong to spread a URL without permission in that manner; especially when someone provides the bandwidth at no cost to a community. I see similar cases on technical/support/image files I have hosted end up circumnavigating the globe, including this thread on some German notebook site.

In this case, the copyright infringement supersedes that particular issue, but still rather inconsiderate of those individuals giving out the URL.

 

[TechnoKid]

Originally posted by: Wag

We believe this content is protected by copyright and other laws and its use elsewhere on your website is a violation of the starwars.com Terms of Service

They don't know?

😉

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
Wrong to spread a URL without permission in that manner; especially when someone provides the bandwidth for free to a community. I see similar cases on technical/support/image files I have hosted end up circumnavigating the globe, including this thread on some German notebook site.

That's what the internet is based on. How would anyone see anything if the URL didn't spread around different communities?

 

[nakedfrog]

You'd think they could just search P2P or something...

 

[Modeps]

just for more funny things, there's people who downloaded it from house.gov, microsoft.com, hbo.com, uspto.gov, ibm.com and intel.com

 

[Wag]

Originally posted by: pulse8
That's what the internet is based on. How would anyone see anything if the URL didn't spread around different communities?

Which makes it seem even more incredulous that someone would get upset for what equates to free advertising.

They didn't expect the trailer to one of the biggest movies of the year to be all over the net as soon as they released it?

 

[trmiv]

The passive-aggresiveness of that letter they sent you is hilarious.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: Wag

Originally posted by: pulse8
That's what the internet is based on. How would anyone see anything if the URL didn't spread around different communities?

Which makes it seem even more incredulous that someone would get upset for what equates to free advertising.

They didn't expect the trailer to one of the biggest movies of the year to be all over the net as soon as they released it?

Lucass is strange that way.

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: pulse8
That's what the internet is based on. How would anyone see anything if the URL didn't spread around different communities?

The "without permission" is the key from the above post. There are times when you are providing the world at large with information, and other times when the boundary stops at the edge of a certain community.

Much depends on the file size. Believe this was a 10MB file, if memory serves, and lead to 25GB of bandwidth usage. Imagine if it would have been the 60MB HQ version instead?

There are of course other legal channels through which to propagate files and data. Torrent is an excellent example.

 

[Modeps]

I really dont mind... They asked for me to take it off, and I did. it was almost free publicity for me too. I say almost because no one signed up for my website because of it.

 

[Hubris]

Originally posted by: Wag

Originally posted by: pulse8
That's what the internet is based on. How would anyone see anything if the URL didn't spread around different communities?

Which makes it seem even more incredulous that someone would get upset for what equates to free advertising.

They didn't expect the trailer to one of the biggest movies of the year to be all over the net as soon as they released it?

The problem wasn't so much that it was distributed but that the special people who are actually silly enough to PAY were supposed to get the trailer for four days before it was released to everyone on Nov. 8th. That's what they have a problem with.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Modeps
just for more funny things, there's people who downloaded it from house.gov, microsoft.com, hbo.com, uspto.gov, ibm.com and intel.com

You should send Lucasfilm your logs 😛.

 

[Chompman]

Probly a fake e-mail 😛

Show the address they sent it from.

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: Chompman
Probly a fake e-mail 😛

Show the address they sent it from.

yep, it's fake. you got me. :roll:
I wont be showing any email address that it was sent from.

 

[Wag]

Originally posted by: Hubris
The problem wasn't so much that it was distributed but that the special people who are actually silly enough to PAY were supposed to get the trailer for four days before it was released to everyone on Nov. 8th. That's what they have a problem with.

That kind of distribution doesn't work on the net.

If they really want to restrict access then they should use DRM or some other kind of protection.

So it seems kind of silly they would protest about a movie trailer being distributed freely on the net, especially when the Ep1 and Ep2 trailers were among the most downloaded files ever.

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm

Originally posted by: pulse8
That's what the internet is based on. How would anyone see anything if the URL didn't spread around different communities?

The "without permission" is the key from the above post. There are times when you are providing the world at large with information, and other times when the boundary stops at the edge of a certain community.

Much depends on the file size. Believe this was a 10MB file, if memory serves, and lead to 25GB of bandwidth usage. Imagine if it would have been the 60MB HQ version instead?

There are of course other legal channels through which to propagate files and data. Torrent is an excellent example.

If you post a video on a forum as busy as this one and don't expect others to view it or link to it elsewhere you're just fooling yourself. Someone has to get permission from someone else to post a link to something that they stole to begin with? 😕