The Zen Mind

[Tb]

Re: The Zen Mind

Doesn't a good, not cruel, thwak! release a few endorphins as well? Or am I misinformed? ops:

Nope, not endorphines but adrenaline. It's bound to wake you up and return you into alert mode. It's the same effect when you get slapped when freaking out. Saw it in Mythbusters. heh

Hi.

Cool, an kyosaku on mythbusters...
Can't wait t see that, or the effects of meditation, and different stances...

But i must say, Mythbusters i a very good show, and i sometimes use it in my teaching, as there are some good bits in there...

Mtfbwy
Fugen

[Hans]

Re: The Zen Mind

Hello,

I guess that for some I'm going to come across as being not very laid back and likeable because of this post. So be it

To cut the long story short, I will restate what I have written before regarding copyright infringement: It literally, not metaphorically, destroys jobs, especially when you are talking about documentary filmmaking, which is very hard to get funding for to begin with.

Am I pretending to always check 150% whether content I am looking at is actually part of the public domain? No, I am no perfect angel either..,it just strikes me as funny however that with so many technophiles around here (since we're all using the internet to begin with) and notions of interdependence etc. being repeatedly discussed by a lot of people, that I end up being the party pooper again

Bottom line: It seems documentary storm is using legal gray areas surrounding questions like "where does the actual server stand" to show complete documentaries which they have no right to show. Legal? barely. Legitimate. BIG NO.

"All videos and documentaries featured on DocumentaryStorm are not hosted on our own servers or uploaded by us, but are embedded from a variety of video hosting servers including, but not limited to, YouTube, YouKu, Mega Video, Google Videos, etc.. These documentaries are publicly available, and we do not own or imply ownership of any of the documentaries featured – All documentaries are assumed to be either in the public domain or uploaded with the consent of their copyright owners.

Should any visitor have any copyright issues or questions regarding the documentaries featured, please contact the respective video host or those responsible for uploading it."

So basically, if someone uploads something on youku in China, they will stream it.


Gassho,

Hans (whose job depends on the fact that people don't just the download my company's proprietary software for free somewhere)

[Seishin the Elder]

Re: The Zen Mind

Oh dear! Hans, I am so sorry. I suppose that I believed something posted from a source like "DocumentaryStorm" would be publicly available. The Zen priest who sent in to me must also have belivved the same. It is very difficult these days with all the available internets sites for those of us who are very "savvy" to this issues to know which sites or items are valid or invalid. If you feel that what I have posted will in any way compromise Treeleaf, then please feel free to delete the entire thread.

Perhaps you might give some consideration to setting up a "vetting board" for those of us who do not know such things, so that we can submit a Url or picture or cartoon before we post it in the Forum. I know that may be cumbersome but I certainly do not wish any individual or Treeleaf in general to be party to some legal process for what they thought was an innocent post. This whole internet/cyber. electonic world is becoming very complicated and in some cases rather frightening when one sees how easily one's identity can be cooped. I know this is much faster in our impatient world, but it gives pause to consideration of pen and paper and good old letter-writing.

Gassho,

Seishin Kyrill

[Hans]

Re: The Zen Mind

Dear Fr. Kyrillos,

don't you worry too much. It's not like it's the end of the world. I have no intention to delete this thread or anything of the kind, I'd just like to use this opportunity to raise a little bit of awareness regarding these issues. Basically content has to be paid for by someone. In cases of well known artists and big movie studios there is indeed a lot to be said for free PR to be had by freely distributing clips etc. (IMHO however that is always the studio's call to make - not ours) . In the case of most documentaries however, people really have to sell the one product they have...every unit counts....because there are next to no people who will search for particular production companies on a regular basis (meaning the PR effect won't really help them too much). So Empty Mind films (or whatever they are called), really need to charge for every individual copy of their product, otherwise the numbers seriously don't add up and they can shut down their little enterprise.

If they had made a 2000% profit and wanted to share the film for free from then on...great....but again that'd be their call to make, not ours.

There is no way a small to medium sized production company is going to take somebody to court in China btw. The legal fees alone would just be too much to handle.

For all I know I could be wrong about your particular website, but then again it was a great opportunity to let everyone see what a hypocritical puritan I can be

So please folks, if you really like the documentary, look up who made it and just buy a copy.


Gassho,


Hans