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Originally posted by LabRat:
No one is donating to the DVD, DS. Or paying for it. Everyone is donating to the upkeep of the sites listed above. The DVD is a free bonus 'gift', if you will, sent to those who donate above a specific level, in appreciation of them going the extra mile, so to speak.

The funds raised are for non-profit-making websites. No one is making a profit on donations.

There is therefore no difference between posting music videos here on the mbs and putting them on a DVD and sending them to people, free of charge. Think of it, if you like, in the same way as someone taping a show from TV and then sending the tape to a friend who's never seen it and wants to, but whose TV station doesn't show it.

Or, if you will - say that a member of these mbs loves music vids, but can't see the ones posted here because they use dialup and it's too slow to dl them for viewing. Another member dls the music vids and puts them on a DVD and sends it to them, so that they can share in the fun. That's basically what's happening here, more or less.

Are these things legal? Well that's blurry. But they are traditionally accepted as something not to get all het up and bothered about by all concerned and have been for decades.


LabRat smile
Again.

Donating, as in donating their work to the dvd. If someone has issues with this idea, anyone who has their name on that disc could be liable.