Re: Audio Described Content
I think both sides of the argument have some marrot.
1. Most TV and movies are meant to entertain rather than educate, and entertainment is not a right while education is, even though entertainment can help you grow artistically and education can be entertaining, so the lines do get blurry.
2. Many first world countries have pushed for as many books as possible to be available to people with print disabilities, including purely entertainment books, but almost all of them still started with educational material as the main focus. Some also no include documentaries, music, and short films along with the books. So in a way, movies and tv shows aren't a huge leap.
3. As far as I know, There is no law giving immunity to sites like this just because they are helping disabled people, though if the servers are in a country with lose or no copyright protections, then they would be effectively immune for other reasons. Therefore, these sites are illegal and considered wrong by government, media corporations, and parts of society.
4. Certain countries that have the resources to do so, have not made described video available to enough people do to shortcomings in the system. For instance the UK compared to the US.
So, one asks ones self if it is truly wrong to attempt to remedy this failure, and further spread this media to those in countries who do not have the money or inclination to do so, for the betterment of our fellow disabled community members.
Those are the arguments, with most of the moral BS and sidelining taken out, as I see them at least.
@UltraLeetJ
The files are almost invariably description tracks ripped from dvd's and bluerays, which would be illegal yes, at least in countries that give a crap, which would be nearly all of the countries that these descriptions were produced and soled in.
@Jace
The huge majority of torrents accessible to the public contain pirated material, so lets not split hairs and be willfully dishonest to push an agenda here.
That said, to say the entire torrent protocol is meant for illegal distribution is also wrong, yet I don't think anyone has claimed that here either.
It's hard to even blame ISP's for blocking torrents (they wouldn't bother if they hadn't been sued before) when basically everything legit you can get on a torrent, you can get by other means without allot of speed decrease. There are many more important things I could blame ISP's for though...
It's hard to take an argument seriously when it relies on selective honesty and willful ignorance of certain inconveniences.
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