This sounds like something a rich person says who hasn’t actually worked with poor people in America. Most people in America without internet or without phones with internet dont have it for geographical or social problems not poverty. Drive to the part of town you think is the first, find someone there in an house or apartment and ask them if they have internet. They will laugh at you as they talk on their cellphone. Sure, homeless people dont have internet.... but lets not be absurd.There are actually plenty who can’t afford internet at all. Get out of your bubble/
That's one way to spin this.Apple the good guy again for a bunch of "adults"
This sounds like something a rich person says who hasn’t actually worked with poor people in America. Most people in America without internet or without phones with internet dont have it for geographical or social problems not poverty. Drive to the part of town you think is the first, find someone there in an house or apartment and ask them if they have internet. They will laugh at you as they talk on their cellphone. Sure, homeless people dont have internet.... but lets not be absurd.
There are actually plenty who can’t afford internet at all. Get out of your bubble/
Telling people what they should be able to afford is pretty crappy. $5 for a DVD is not the same as free.
Yes - and they did the right thing. Hopefully, all PBS stations pick it up.hOw DaRe ThEy MeSs WiTh My TrAdItIoN!
Depending on when published, there may be a ways to go before they're public domain. My media law professor from years ago is probably a little disappointed how much I forgot about it, but I think written was something like the author's life + 70 years, and maybe film/TV falls under a window from the publication date onward. The copyright laws have been rewritten, extended, and since those fall well before the most recent revisions, it's not as easy as today."A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" is 47 years old and "A Charlie Brown Christmas" will be 55 years old. These should be out in the public domain by now.
Neither is electricity, but both electricity and a TV have *always* been required to watch...anything. I wouldn't expect someone without a TV to be able to watch A Charlie Brown Christmas let alone anything else. But you used to not need an ISP on top of that.TV isn't free either.
The Christmas and Halloween specials are remembered almost as much for the Vince Guaraldi Trio soundtracks as they are for the shows themselves. Later specials did not have the incredible music.I was a huge Peanuts fan when I was a kid. I'm old enough to remember the original broadcasts of "A Charlie Brown Christmas", "Charlie Brown's All-Stars" and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown". But after those initial three, I lost interest. I'm amazed that the characters have had such staying power.
I don't quite get why Apple has to cater to people who lack high-speed Internet or cannot/rather not pay few bucks for DVD/BD. Apple paid for rights to Peanuts holiday specials and isn't obligated to keep them "free" on broadcast TV.Telling people what they should be able to afford is pretty crappy. $5 for a DVD is not the same as free.
Tell that to the millions of kids who don't have home internet and are happy they have a TV. You obviously would know nothing about poverty or you wouldn't be so ignorant and say such a stupid, vile thing.Those with poor Internet or those that cannot afford to buy a bargain priced DVD at the checkout line can be happy again
That you would justify such as )%#%#)% comment makes you just as bad, and you don't know what you're talking about..Internet for people who can't afford it... at least in the US is subsidized by the government—LifeLine is an FCC program that provides reduced cost Internet to everyone who qualifies for WIC with additional subsidies in some states. T-Mobile also announced a free hotspot program for families with school-aged children.
I think this was precisely the issue, though. The specials have been publicly available for 50 years (via broadcast TV). It feels wrong to many people to take something that used to be publicly available and make it now available only to people who are willing to pay extra (for a DVD, Apple TV, or what have you). Yes, these people may already be paying for basic cable. Or maybe they are watching over the air. But to add an extra pay wall for something that didn't used to have it, is, I think the issue.Apple paid for rights to Peanuts holiday specials and isn't obligated to keep them "free" on broadcast TV.
Yeah, it's more "feel" than anything else. Typically, most media things are produced by someone, distributed by someone else, and then actually presented/broadcasted by someone entirely different (like the cause of the big hullabaloo with Friends and the Office leaving Netflix).I think this was precisely the issue, though. The specials have been publicly available for 50 years (via broadcast TV). It feels wrong to many people to take something that used to be publicly available and make it now available only to people who are willing to pay extra (for a DVD, Apple TV, or what have you). Yes, these people may already be paying for basic cable. Or maybe they are watching over the air. But to add an extra pay wall for something that didn't used to have it, is, I think the issue.
A secondary issue is that this isn't even intellectual property developed by Apple. It is as though Apple has taken something that was (for practical purposes) in the public domain and has locked it up. And it wasn't even theirs in the first place. It doesn't really matter if you can afford the extra pay wall or not. It is as though Apple is imposing an extra "watching tax" for something that wasn't theirs to begin with. I think that is what bothered a lot of people - however many signed the petition.