Lyndahere and more piracy...revised

@Lyndahere from Twitter

Hard Rock’s Loving Son’s @alanthomasdoyle @rickmercer on a Petty Harbour fishing boat on CBC’s Rick Mercer Report cbc.ca/player/shows 5 November 2014

@alanthomasdoyle @rickmercer And the recorded (sorry, non_HD) version of the clip that can be seen outside Canada 5 November 2014

Note: This interview is available on CBC Canada for overseas fans and I have just watched it. However, the links provided by @lyndahere are not correct. When I accessed the link she provided by mobile phone the contact with CBC disconnected my phone for over 30 minutes. When I accessed the link via a computer the link lead me to a blank CBC page. After entering search terms for Alan Doyle and Rick Mercer I found it and viewed overseas beautifully.

The RMR Rick Goes Cod Fishing interview with Alan Doyle is available on the Rick Mercer official YouTube site and available overseas. This copy was available a day before  a pirated copy by @lyndahere.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJlHTTQ-3fA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I have been trying consciously not to write anything about @lyndahere’s piracy and bootlegging out of respect for Alan Doyle, Great Big Sea and their friends. I am sure there will be consequences for me for saying this as they validate her activities even more. But I am going to say it anyway. @lyndahere has moved up in status as a big name fan as Alan Doyle acknowledges some of the questions she asks, the information she finds as well as a couple of bootlegged videos she made earlier this year. He has encouraged and rewarded her presence at concerts, events, taking photographs and finding information but not her bootlegging and piracy.

@lyndahere just seems to be waddling on taping and recording whatever she wants and distributing via her YouTube account Between the Rock. This is done without much thought to the morals or ethics of what and when she records or the wishes of the content creators. There is no thought that her endless bootlegging and piracy may derail projects like movies, an audio book or an album from the people we love and affect the creation of future content. The list of @lyndahere pirated content in opposition to professionals is long indeed and mentioned in previous posts.

@lyndahere has made an assumption if there is a pirated copy and a legal version then people will watch the legal version (if the correct links are provided). Most of the legal CBC content is available overseas even if for a short while. But pirated content with @lyndahere is easier for fans to find than finding a direct link and waiting for a commercial. Often @lyndahere doesn’t provide the correct full links to content advertised and leaves fans to find it for themselves as I did with this interview. The commercial that is on the official site of this Rick Mercer interview helps fund content at CBC Canada and her pirated copy takes away viewers as they go elsewhere to watch it, whether in Canada or overseas. Of course she is not the only pirate in Canada pirating content from CBC Canada. The lack of viewers of the commercials on the content in these circumstances will impact on the future of content creation. There is no doubt about that.

Perhaps I am the only fan who is not happy if there is a pirated copy available. If there is no legal copy of content outside of Canada then that should be that. If we don’t want to live in Canada (as glorious as that country is) then fans are going to miss out on content. Part of life is missing out and as an adult we should be able to deal with it. (Although missing out on anything Alan Doyle is obviously not for her). The answer to address the lack of available content isn’t piracy. Neither is taking whatever content we can get our hands on and doing with it what we want. Because @lyndahere gets away with piracy and bootlegging doesn’t make it right. While she thinks her illegal activities will promote Alan Doyle and others, piracy is not a victimless crime as she indicates. Piracy will impact on content creation now and in the future.