[UA] Sapphire and Steel

[Bailey Watts]

>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

I only do the distract and steal from people who don't have much recourse.  
People who deal in tapes that can't legally be sold or purchased seem to be 
easy targets since you're only stealing something that they're not supposed 
to have.

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