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Originally Posted by sbroome
And you seem to be approaching the conversation from the perspective that being denied an official Wicked DVD has some kind of significant impact on your life. If it does, it shouldn't. As I've said repeatedly if you own it in another format I don't consider it piracy to make a digital version on your own. And what was being discussed was the demand for "immediacy".
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Well, for one, it's impossible to legitimately own a visual performance of Wicked in ANY format. The bootleg recordings are the only versions. Hence the relevance to the discussion. This isn't about format-shifting.
And, yes, I do consider the denial of that service to be a significant impact on people's lives. It's a beautiful and moving piece of work that has had tremendous impact on many people. We cannot simultaneously claim on this board that art is so
meaningful that authors MUST be cultivated (and to do otherwise would detriment society) and so
meaningless that when an edition is denied to the disabled then they have lost nothing.
Art is either valuable or valueless. We cannot simultaneously hold that it is both.