[UA] Sapphire and Steel

[Paul Wrider]

I wondered how long it would take someone to mention "intellectual property".
To the lists's credit, it took quite awhile.
There's no need to get into deep discussion about it, but the guys who do the convention circut very specifically deal in video that *cannot* be purchased or viewed.  That means Bitish series that have never been distributed in America, pilots that were shown once (or not at all), and shows that didn't have enough of a run to ever justify putting them on video (like the live-action Tick).
So these folks provide a niche market with material that they can view in *no* legal way.  I'm sure if the BBC felt that putting out a Sapphire and Steel retrospective in the USA would net them anything close to a decent proft, they'd do it, and this guy would have no market for his tapes.  But they won't, and he will, so it's really not  a moral question.
That said, these people do tend to price their tapes pretty high, but programs lie Kazaa will do to their market what Audiogalaxy has done to $30 bootleg CD's of rare band tracks.
But if you're willing to steal product for me at Gen Con while I distract the folks who work the booths, I'm all for it.  Let's start at the Atlas booth.  I hear they're charging waaay too much for the UA2 hardcover. 
-Wrider
 
  Bailey Watts <didi_mau at hotmail.com> wrote: Why not just distract one of these shmucks and gank their stash of tapes? 
What are they gonna do complain to the event organizers that someone made 
off with their ilegally copied videos that they planned to sell for indecent 
wads of cash and thus violate the BBC's intellectual property not one but 
two ways?

> > There was a dude at Gen Con last year who had some episodes on tape for 
>a rediculous amount - one of the standard "I've got everything on tape you 
>can't buy legally for double or triple what you'd normally pay" 
>entrepreneurs that do the convention circut.
> >Mebbe I'll think about buying from him...
>
>Find out if you have a local Doctor Who fan group first, they often have 
>access to Sapphire and Steel and Blake's Seven episodes as well.
>
>-Sean
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