Ad absurdum, on copyright

[Georg Wrede]

grauzone wrote:
>> Just watched the Eurovision Song Contest. (That's the Biggest Annual 
>> TV Event in Europe, Israel, North Africa, half of Asia, and Australia 
>> and New Zealand.) Bands like ABBA of Sweden, were explicitly assembled 
>> for the contest, and many winners enjoy a huge world-wide success later.
> 
> Now now, who would care about that contest? It's as crappy as most other 
> things on TV. That was that thing where viewers can vote for songs, and 
> the votes are listed by-country, right?

Yes, that's the one. As interesting as when some armored body builders 
run all over a lawn, kicking and throwing an oblong ball, and each 
other, while an entire nation stops, once a year.

One only needs to see it because everybody else saw it. Crap or not.

> (Yay for using torrents, xdcc and mplayer as "TV set" instead!)

The day will come, pilgrim. The day will come.

>> Turns out Eurovision (a subsidiary of the European Broadcast[ers] 
>> Union) "grid-casts" the show on the net. Now, the client to view with, 
>> has an "interesting" EULA:
> 
> And I guess there's no way for playback with open source software?
> And I tried to find out what they're using. All I found was a Flash 
> applet. Everything that uses Flash is ignored by me by default.

I'm not going to get even started on that one. Grrrrrr.